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gardens, and I have only seen it in Lord Exeter's 

 gardens at 



* Burleigh House, by Stamford town.' 



It was reported to have been brought there by a 

 French cook. The gardener, Mr. Gilbert, kindly gave 

 me plants and buds ; but like the Bride of Burleigh, 

 of whom Tennyson wrote, 



' Faint they grew and ever fainter, 

 And they droop'd and droop'd before me, 

 Fading slowly from my side.' 



Although common at one time in this country, they 

 seem never to have been happy or acclimatised. 

 ' How am I to burst the yellow Rose } ' was a 

 question often sent to the horticultural editor. All 

 sorts of manoeuvres, and all sorts of manures, were 

 tried. Mrs. Lawrence writes that a tree of this Rose 

 was planted against an east wall at Broughton Hall 

 in Buckinghamshire, with a dead fox placed at its 

 roots, by her father. She adds, fortunately, that he 

 ' was a great sportsman,' or posterity would certainly 

 have suspected papa of being what posterity calls a 

 vulpicide. ' In many seasons,' writes the Rev. Mr. 

 Hanbury, in his elaborate work upon Gardening, 

 published more than a century ago, ' these Roses do 

 not blow fair. Sometimes they appear as if the 

 sides had been eaten by a worm when in bud ; 



