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glories with their crimson and roseate sheen, you get 

 some idea what the writer means who talks about 

 being Mrunk with beauty/ The trees should be 

 pruned when they have flowered in summer, so that 

 a fresh growth of laterals may be well ripened before 

 winter, and bloom in the ensuing spring.^ 



Rather more than twenty years ago, Mr. Fortune 

 sent over a batch of Climbing Roses from China, 

 and from one of them, named Fortune's Yellow, great 

 expectations rose. It was described by a Rosarian 

 at Seven Oaks as being ^nearly as rampant as the 

 old Ayrshire, quite hardy, covered from the middle 

 of May with large loose flowers of every shade — 

 between a rich reddish-buff and a full coppery pink 

 — and rambling over a low wall, covering it on both 

 sides, about 20 feet wide, and 5 feet high/ Mr. 

 Fortune himself described it as most striking in its 

 own country, with flowers ^yellowish-salmon, and 

 bronze-like ; ' but it has not as yet received in 

 England the attention which it deserves, as one of 

 the most attractive and abundant of Roses. They 

 who have seen it as it is grown at Blenheim and 

 elsewhere, will not be happy until they have planted 

 it on a southern wall. With this aspect, and with 

 a surface protection from the frost, it is hardy in the 



^ Upon the Banksian Rose, once established, other Roses, of the 

 Tea and Noisette families, may be successfully budded. 



