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lights, that the trees may have the benefit of full exposure to the weather; pa}’ - 
every necessary attention to the ripening of the wood in late houses ; keep the 
borders well watered. When the Figs are all gathered, syringe the trees well, 
give plenty of air, but no more water than is necessary. Pay attention to Straw¬ 
berries ; keep them well watered, and remove all runners.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
OLD NEGLECTED LOSES. 
f p OSE gossip is, I do not hesitate to say, as acceptable to-day as would be 
lb the discussion of the merits of Floriculture’s latest offspring. In these 
¥ few stray notes on old Roses I have no intention to enter on the subject 
of modern Rose-growing, already being so abty dealt with in your pages. 
I would rather draw from their undeserved seclusion one or two old favourites, 
which seem to have been forgotten amid the rage for novelty. 
Who that has once seen the peculiarly-tinted copper-coloured Austrian Brier 
would tire in its possession, and yet where is it grown now ? Though still in its 
primitive singleness, the buds and the full-blown petals are so remarkable in 
colour as to stamp it as a favourite for all time. What say the hybridists ? Is 
there here no fresh blood, no means of painting a double bloom with such a 
tint ? Fortunately we write from the 4 love ’ of Roses. There is, however, in some 
old Rose gardens an historical emblem of the 4 strife ’ of the Roses : but who are 
the fortunate possessors of a duplicate of the old striped York and Lancaster ? 
Here, again, might not the hybridist 4 try back,’ and, if possible, place the crimson 
sash of a General Jacqueminot upon the pure white petals of the old White 
Provence—if no other ? 
Yellow Roses, the old primitive yellows Austrian and Persian , seem little 
understood by the world outside professional floriculture. It is too generally 
believed that the very beautiful Double Yellow Persian is the Austrian Double, 
which, however, all who are conversant with it know it is not. The latter has 
not a tithe of the beauty, whether of form or colour, which the former possesses. 
If the Double Yellow Persian has a fault, it consists in the fact that it blooms 
freely only from the long strong shoots of a previous season’s growth, and hence 
must not be pruned back, as roses are in general. Then for an edging—a dwarf 
edging, some 8 in. to 12 in. high, and as much through if you wish it—what 
can be more beautiful than the old nearly double, though more strictly 
semi-double, pink and white Scotch Poses. 
It has long become a by-word that we have no showy-flowered evergreen 
climbing plants that are hardy, nor am I able to prove the contrary. Now I 
would not say a word for the beauty of the showy old Posa multijiora or Boursaull 
varieties, in so far as their blooms go, for they are poor, indeed, in comparison 
with our modern Roses. The Boursaults, however, are rampant growers, clothing 
walls, bowers, or indeed house-sides, in a very short time ; and blooming, as they 
do, en masse , they form very pleasing objects indeed. They possess, moreover, 
the merit of carrying their pleasing green foliage until the first severe frost comes 
