MARCH 41 



hand — a " bush " more or less was nothing to him, but 

 the neglected little wound had become tainted with 

 some impurity, blood-poisoning had set in, and my 

 poor old friend had truly enough "died of a canker- 

 bush." 



The flowering season of Fortune's Yellow is a very 

 short one, but it comes so early, and the flowers have 

 such incomparable beauty, and are so little like those 

 of any other Rose, that its value is quite without doubt. 

 Some of the Tea Roses approach it in its pink and 

 copper colouring, but the loose, open, rather flaimting 

 form of the flower, and the twisted set of the petals, 

 display the colour better than is possible in any of the 

 more regular-shaped Roses. It is a good plan to grow 

 it through some other wall shrub, as it soon gets bare 

 below, and the early maturing flowering tips are glad 

 to be a little sheltered by the near neighbourhood of 

 other foliage. 



I do not think that there is any other Rose that 

 has just the same rich butter colour as the Yellow 

 Banksian, and this unusual colouring is the more 

 distinct because each little Rose in the cluster is nearly 

 evenly coloured all over, besides being in such dense 

 bunches. The season of bloom is very short, but the 

 neat, polished foliage is always pleasant to see through- 

 out the year. The white kind and the larger white 

 are both lovely as to the individual bloom, but they 

 flower so much more shyly that the yellow is much 

 the better garden plant. 



