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cause this rose to bring forth fair and kindly flowers, is performed 

 after this manner. First in the stock of a Francfort Rose, near 

 the ground, put in the bud of the single yellow rose, which will 

 quickly shoot to a good length ; then, half a yard higher than the 

 place where the same was budded, put into it a bud of the double 

 yellow rose, which growing, the suckers must be kept from the 

 root, and all the buds rubbed off, except those of the kind desired, 

 which, being grown big enough to bear (which will be in two 

 years), it must in winter be pruned very near, cutting off all the 

 small shoots, and only leaving the biggest, cutting off the tops of 

 them also, as far as they are small. Then in the spring, when 

 the buds for leaves come forth, rub off the smallest of them, leav- 

 ing only some few of the biggest, which, by reason of the strength 

 of the stock, affordeth more nourishment than any other, and the 

 agreeable nature of the single yellow rose, from whence it is im- 

 mediately nourished, the shoots will be strong and able to bear 

 out the flowers, if they be not too many, which may be prevented 

 by nipping off the smallest buds for flowers. The tree should 

 stand something shadowed, and not too much in the heat of the 

 sun, and in a standard by itself, rather than under a wall." That 

 which follows is from a book called Systema Horticultures, dated 

 1688 : " There is no flower-bearing tree that yields blossom so 

 beautiful as the rose, whereof the yellow Provence Rose is the 

 most beautiful where it brings forth fair and kindly flowers, which 

 hath been obtained by budding a single yellow rose on the stock 

 of a flourishing Francfort Rose near the ground : when that sin- 

 gle yellow is well grown, in that branch inoculate your double 

 yellow rose ; then cut off all suckers and shoots from the first and 

 second, leaving only your last, which must be pruned very near, 

 leaving but few buds, which will have the more nourishment, 

 and yield the fairer and more entire blossoms. This tree, or a 

 layer from a rose of the same kind, delights most, and blows fair- 

 est, in a cold, moist, and shady place, and not against a hot wall." 

 PERSIAN YELLOW, A. B., is the deepest yellow rose known, 

 and is a highly improved edition of the old and well-known Har- 

 risonii. Its flowers are more double, of a deeper yellow than that 



