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THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
The Scotch rose ( Rosa spinosissima ), differs from the Ayrshire rose, 
with which it is frequently confounded, in being a bush, while the Ayrshire 
rose is a climber. “ Scotch roses,” says Mr. Rivers, “ may be grown as 
standards, and the yellow, and one or two of the more robust varieties, 
make good heads, but in general they form a round and lumpish tree, in 
ill accordance with good taste: when grown in beds and clumps, as dwarfs, 
they are beautiful, and in early seasons they will bloom nearly a fortnight 
before the other sunimer roses make their appearance; this, of course, 
makes them desirable appendages to the flower-garden. They bear seed 
profusely ; and raising new varieties from seed will be found a most inter¬ 
esting employment. To do this, all that is required is to sow the seed 
as soon as ripe, in October, in pots, or beds of fine earth, covering it with 
nearly one inch of mould ; the succeeding spring they will come up, and 
bloom in perfection the season following.” ( Rivers’s Rose Amateurs 
Guide , p. 65.) Scotch roses do not require any pruning, unless it 
be to trim them into shape. The yellow Scotch rose is a hybrid 
between the common Scotch rose and the yellow Austrian briar, Rosa 
lutea. 
The Sweet-briar ( Rosa rubiginosa ), is nearly allied to the Scotch rose, 
and it requires the same treatment, with the exception that it grows best 
in chalky soil. 
The hardy yellow roses are mostly raised from the Austrian briar ( Rosa 
lutea ), and either the Scotch rose or the sweet-briar. There are two 
kinds of the Austrian briar; viz. the common yellow, and the red or 
copper-coloured ( R . bicolor\ which has the inside of the flowers red, and 
the outside yellow. This rose is said not to be able to endure the smoke 
of London, but it flowers splendidly at Mrs. Marryat’s at Wimbledon, 
and at Mr. Strachan’s, Teddington Grove. The most common of the 
hybrid yellow roses are Williams’s Double yellow briar, the Superb 
double yellow, and Rosa Harrisonii , the latter, which is by far the best, 
having been brought from New York by Mr. James M‘Nab, some years 
ago. The common yellow rose ( Rosa sulphurea ), is very double, and 
cup-shaped, like a cabbage rose. It is said to be a native of the East ; 
and a plant of it in its single state has been lately brought from Persia by 
Sir Henry Willich. The double variety is abundant in the south of 
France and Italy ; but it never flowers well in England, unless it has a 
warm, sheltered situation, with a rich loamy soil, and abundance of air 
and light. Where the situation is too cold, and the soil too poor, or too 
wet, the roses become cankered, or the buds burst on one side, and then 
wither without expanding properly. 
The hardy climbing roses are mostly varieties or hybrids of the Ayr- 
