A YELLOW ROSE HEDGE

Evening Star, Issue 21008, 23 January 1932, Page 21

A YELLOW ROSE HEDGE

A rose enthusiast remarked recently that if she ever required a hedge of roses she would bestrongly inclined to plant a row of Mrs Wemyss Quin. This is an idea worth carrying out, for the rose is a free grower, usually reaching about 4ft in height, a generous bloomer, and possessed of beautiful and glossy foliage. Like many other yellow roses, Mrs Wemyss Quin’ prefers a rather sunless summer and would do well in partial shade. It has been extraordinarily fine this year, in quality, quantity, and size of bloom, and possesses a delicious perfume, strongly suggestive of the little yellow Scotch rose, Rosa spinosissima. Another good rose for a fence or hedge is the old Noisette variety, sometimes listed among the Chinas, named Fellenberg. _ This dates back to about 1848, and is in danger of being forgotten. It has fine dark foliage, with a purplish stem, and the loose blooms, of the China type, are deep rose-pink, borne in profusion until late autumn. It grows 4ft or sft high, and throws out long flowering branches which could be tied in to a fence.—‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ London.