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HINTS ON THE CtlLTIVATION OP YELLOW EOSES. 
ment, but, making branches more plentifully than the preceding, it requires more thinning 
when pruning. 
The Double Yellow-brier closely resembles the Harrisonii, but is still paler. The 
single yellow is about the same colour, with single flowers. Both of these flourish with the 
same soil and treatment as the former. 
The old Double Yellow is, surely, the most capricious of roses ; few who know its history 
essay to cultivate it. Sometimes, indeed, it produces an abundance of flower-buds, but, as 
John Parkinson said of it 'early in the seventeenth century, "The flower is so thick and 
double that very often it breaketh out on one side or another, but few of them abiding whole 
and fair in our country." The main conditions for successful culture appear to be a 
tolerable rich free soil, a pure dry air, and a mild genial spring. These conditions can be 
rarely combined, and even these will not ensure success. The most probable, chances 
appear to consist in pot-culture. Get a healthy plant well established, and grow it under 
glass in gentle heat, pruning but sparingly. 
Perhaps this is not an improper place in which to mention the two or three varieties of 
Yellow Scotch Eoses (R. spinosissima), although they can scarcely be called pure yellows. 
These are best fitted for cultivation, as bushes, in the flower-garden. The flowers are 
globular, neat, rather small but well formed, producing a good effect en mmse. A Scotch 
Rose in full bloom forms a very interesting object; it thrives in almost any soil. 
We have now to speak of the Shaded Yellows, which form a more numerous family. 
They belong to the Tea-scented and Noisette {R. indica) of florists. But where to begin 
and where to end is a point of difficulty. If we take any from these groups, we must 
include some of various shades, for the tints from yellow to buff, salmon, sulphur, &c., are 
so nicely shaded off through different varieties, that it is difficult to fix the line of demar- 
cation. A few of the yellowest among the Tea-scented are these : — Abricote, Aurora, 
Cleopatra, Devoniensis, Eliza Sauvage, Jaune, La Renommee, Mirabile, Moiret, Pellonia, 
Princess Adelaide, Safran, Smith's Yellow, and Vicomtesse de Gazes. Among the 
Noisettes there are : — Clara Wendel, *Cloth of Gold, ^Desprez, Euphrosyne, *Lamarque, 
Le Pactole, ^Solfaterre, all partaking somewhat of the nature of the Tea-scented. 
The Tea-scented and Noisette Roses are, with the exception of those marked with an 
asterisk, best suited for pot-culture, as they are, for the most part, liable to be injured by 
exposure to frosts. Whether grown on their own roots or budded, they should be potted 
in soil composed of loam and leaf-mould, or, in default of the latter, well pulverised manure, 
adding a little sand if the loam be adhesive. For these (the kinds marked with an asterisk 
excepted), close pruning is advocated. They should be kept under glass either in a pit or 
green-house throughout winter and spring ; in summer and autumn they will flourish better 
if plunged in the pots out of doors. All changes to which they are subjected should be 
brought about gradually, as violent transitions from heat to cold, or vice versa, are produc- 
tive of the most injurious effects. The kinds marked with an asterisk, being vigorous 
growers, are better adapted for a wall or the pillars of a conservatory. In such situations they 
grow well, and their handsome foliage and drooping flowers are displayed to great advantage. 
Of the Banksian Roses we may mention the Yellow and the Jaune Serin. The 
former is well known ; the latter is larger and more double, and deeper in colour. Both 
thrive well in common garden-soil ; they should be planted against a south or east wall, 
and require management in pruning to ensure a plentiful crop of flowers. About 
midsummer, the succulent shoots, when not wanted to cover the wall, should be cut in 
close, and some of the moderate shoots should be shortened at the same time ; the issue 
will be twiggy shoots in a condition to bear flowers. For pot-culture, these roses are not 
the most eligible ; a successful exhibitor assured me, this spring, that he had grown thirteen 
large plants, of which only one had flowered. 
Herein, then, have we given in detail a description of Yellow Roses of all characters, 
suited for various purposes : surely few lovers of this flower are so circumstanced that they 
have not the proper situation or convenience for some, and it is hoped that these brief 
cultural remarks may assist in conducting them to a successful issue. When so easy of 
culture, who would be without Yellow Roses ? 
