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Whereas all other roses are best natural, this is best 

 inoculated upon another stock. Others thrive and bear 

 best in the sun ; this, in the shade : therefore the best way 

 that I know to 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, leaving only some few of the biggest, which, by 

 reason of the strength of the stock, affordeth more nour- 

 ishment than any other, and the agreeable nature of the 

 single yelloAV rose, from whence it is immediately nourish- 

 ed, 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 Sijstema Ilorticulturce^ dated 1688: — ''There is no 

 flower-bearing tree that yields blossom so beautiful as the 

 rose, whereof the yellow Provence Rose is the most beau- 

 tiful 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 single yellow is well grown, in that branch inoc- 

 ulate your double yellow rose ; then cut off all suckers and 

 shoots from the first and second, leaving only your last. 



