232 The Rose Garden. 



with a west, in six with a full exposure all round, and in only one case is the south 

 spoken of; this, however, is by W. Leveson Gower, Esq., whose Roses at Titsey, near 

 Godstone, are well known for their beauty, and this gentleman finds them do better 

 there than on a north or west wall. 



" Nothing can be more conflicting than the evidence about soil. The majority of 

 cases of success occur in light land, gravelly, sandy, loamy, and even marly. 



" But, on the other hand, we have some instances of success in the stiffest land. 

 Mr Bowers, of Laleham, grew it in Northamptonshire in cold clay twenty inches 

 deep ; an anonymous correspondent asserts that he has had it in the greatest 

 perfection in the blue clay of Essex, and that he has never known it to fail when 

 it was put into clay in a north aspect ; and another writer testifies to success in strong 

 wet undrained clay in the same county." 



The Double Yellow Rose certainly is very beautiful when perfect ; and could any 

 system of cultivation be divulged which, followed, would ensure a successful issue, I 

 should consider pages well occupied in doing this. But although my anticipations are 

 not thus sanguine, the subject yet deserves a little consideration. 



Some have said Grow it on its own roots ; others, Bud it on the Dog-rose ; and 

 others again, Bud it on the Chinese. At East Lodge, on Enfield Chase, the seat of 

 the late Hon. Mrs Elphinstone, there was a plant on its own roots, growing at a 

 distance of about ten yards from a wall with a north-eastern aspect. It here pro- 

 duced its beautiful yellow blossoms abundantly, covering the bush on all sides during 

 the flowering season for several successive years. The situation is high and exposed ; 

 the soil is naturally a heavy loam, but was somewhat lightened and enriched by the 

 frequent addition of stable manure. 



In certain districts of Suffolk, in Sussex, and in the Isle of Wight, it is said to 

 bloom well generally. 



I am informed by a friend, a great Rose amateur, that at Ballater, in Scotland, both 

 this and the Austrian Rose flower beautifully. He has seen them there growing most 

 luxuriantly, in a very exposed situation, covering a wall of great height and extent, 

 laden with perfect flowers. 



The late Mr Cunningham of Edinburgh once informed me that there was a plant 

 on a south wall in that neighbourhood which flowered in perfection every year. The 

 main stem and branches were as large as those of a Pear-tree, and bushels of flowers 

 might be gathered from them in the season. 



In the Nurseries of my father, the late Mr A. Paul, the plant to which allusion is 

 made in the First Division of this work was grown on its own roots, trained to a 

 west wall, where it flowered constantly and well. The soil in which it grew was 

 originally a heavy loam, but having been occupied as garden ground for a century 

 or two it presents more the appearance of black garden mould. The sub-soil is 

 gravel. 



