Chapter 2 (extract 7) of "Roses for English Gardens" by Jekyll and Mawley (1902), in which Miss Jekyll describes the fickleness of Fortune's yellow rose.
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The beautiful Fortune's Yellow has been with us long enough to take its place among the older garden Roses. It is also from China and tender, liking a hot wall ; but I have observed that it also likes to be led through some other thin wall shrub that will protect the leaves in May when the late frosts come; this seems to prevent that falling of the leaves in May which so often happens to the unprotected shoots.
But it is a Rose that cannot always be trusted to bloom well. We have to consider it a capricious flower. Sometimes it is loaded with its glorious loose copper-coloured bloom, and sometimes it is almost bare. We have to remember that it is from a climate very different from our own, and that we cannot expect to have it in such complete control as we may be fairly sure of assuming in the case of hardier Roses; so that when it does do well we must be all the more thankful.
Coupe d'Hebe, a pretty and sweet Rose of a good full pink colour, is of uncertain origin ; it makes a capital pillar Rose. There are also some old Roses of free growth of which Lady Emily Peel and Emilie Plantier are good representatives. Both are of tender colouring and have an interesting, old-world appearance; they bloom in loose bunches—not shortstalked enough to call clusters—but of admirable freedom for cutting in long branches and arranging in water.
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See also:
Old Garden Roses - The cabbage or Provence Rose (Rosa centifolia) and the Provins rose (Rosa gallica)
Old Garden Roses - The damask rose
Old Garden Roses - Rosa cinnamomea (the Whitsuntide rose) and Rosa rubiginosa (the old sweet brier)
Old Garden Roses - Rosa alba
Old Garden Roses - Rosa alpina and Rosa arvensis
Old Garden Roses - the Banksian Roses and the China Roses
A list of the best Old Garden Roses
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