370 On the Cultivation of the Yellow Rose, §c. 



As the budding season is now approaching I mention this 

 to you, that you may try how far the Yellow Rose so treated, 

 will thrive in the Garden of the Horticultural Society at 

 Chiswick. I expect it will succeed particularly well, as it 

 grows best in deep alluvial loams on the banks of rivers. My 

 buds were inserted ten feet from the ground, and Mr. 

 Knight thinks the large size of the blossoms of the dark 

 Chinese Rose is owing to the distance the sap has to pass 

 from the root before it reaches the flower buds. 



I remain, Dear Sir, 



yours truly, 



John Williams. 



Pitmaston, near Worcester, 

 29th June, 1823. 



Note by the Secretary. 



The Society, at its Meeting on the 1st of July, had an 

 opportunity of witnessing the result of another successful 

 experiment on the Double Yellow Rose. 



Thomas Carey Palmer, Esq. of Bromley, sent specimens 

 of its flowers in a very perfect state, and fully expanded, 

 These were gathered from branches produced from a bud 

 inserted on a strong plant of the common Chinese Rose grow- 

 ing against a wall with a western aspect. The operation had 

 been performed in April 1822, with a spring bud having a 

 little of the wood attached to it ; it had grown so vigorously 

 as to produce upwards of thirty flower-buds in the present 

 season, part of which were taken off to prevent the exhaus- 



