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Title: The Florist and horticultural journal
Year: 1853 (1850s)
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Subjects: Horticulture Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : (s.n.)
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bloomof Fortunes double yellow rose, which has been condemned by most of ourgardeners ; but this specimen went some way towards changing their opinionof it. Taken altogether the display was a very creditable one, and wehope that the funds of this useful institution were benefitted by it. ♦ - Mr. J. F.—We are sorry to have offended you, but we cannot expect t©please every one—we must do the best we can ; the fact of all your com-munication not being published, does not intimate that it was not worthy iThe editor is certainly young, but as you have made more sound on thisoccasion than we have, we really dont see the application of your remarkabout empty vessels. We cannot return communications, as we do notpreserve them; it is not the rule of any paper to return them. Errata in Garden Memoranda, p. 117. In the notice of Eartram, forQuercus alba, 13 feet in circumference and 5 feet high, read 85; and for British Oak, I. pedunculata, 7 feet in circumference and 3 feet high, read83.
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Fortunes Double Yellow rose, THE FLORIST AM) HORTICULTUEAL JOURNAL. Vol. II.) Philadelphia, Jane, 1853. (No. 6. FORTUNES DOUBLE YELLOW, OR WANG-JANG-VE ROSE. The comDion name of this rose indicates with sufficient clearnessits origin. The following details will make known both its historyand its merit as an ornamental plant. The Rose about which you ask of me an account, writes Mr.Fortune to Messrs. Standish & Noble, was discovered by me in thegarden of a rich mandarin at Ningpo. It entirely covered an oldwall; At the time of my visit the brilliant masses of its yellowand salmon flowers produced the most wonderful effect. The Chi-nese call it Wufig-jang^ve or yellow rcse* lis flowers however, varysomewhat in color, a circumstance to my taste, very advantageousto th£ beauty of the bush. I thought it distinct from all known va-rieties, and certainty from all those of China. It is admirablyadapted for covering the walls of a garden, especially if the rich-ness of the soil permits it

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