All the yellow roses may be copied to perfection, if care be taken to color them exactly, shading the petals so as to give the deeper yellow centre, fading into primrose-color of white at the edges of the petals, and to crumple them suffi sufficiently. For the yellow tea-rose, three (or five) of Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and three of No. 6, will be required. They must be

Fig. 121. -The Yellow Tea-scented Rose.

bloomed and colored on both sides. The three outer petals will generally require dashes of red or pink powder to give the discoloration which is usually to be seen in these. All must be well moulded, and hollowed in the hand with the largest curling-pin, or a ball-tool such as is used for paper flower making. It is necessary to use tolerably thick white wax for these roses, in order to roll them out, so to speak, sufficiently. Some of the yellow roses, like the pattern, are cone-shaped, and require to be mounted in threes on a very long foundation-bud : others are flatter, and have five petals in a row; and some roses require to be made on a ball shaped bud, and the petals must be very much hollowed, or cupped. This is especially the case with a very delicate pink rose, the Coupe d'Hebe. A fine large blush-rose, the Souvenir de Malmaison, has a triangular kind of centre, to imitate which a number of small petals should be placed within a large petal, which should be folded round them ; and three of these bunches of petals, mounted on a small foundation-bud, will begin the rose; and the larger petals must be placed round them in rows of fives, as before directed, ending always with three outer petals placed below the largest row. This rose must be delicately colored with pink, and a little pale-yellow must be added where this coloring is seen on the petals. The inner petals are deeper in color than the outer ones. The white Lamarque Noisette is tinged with a sulphur-color in the centre. This rose is extremely pretty, surrounded with buds of various sizes. The Solfaterre models very well, requiring a coloring of yellow and pink. The Ophrie is still deeper in color, and can be copied exactly by tinting the petals with various gradations of salmon, yellow, and rose-colors. All these roses are best modelled in white wax. The Austrian and yellow Scotch roses should be done in yellow wax. The Cloth-of-Gold requires white wax to give the gradations of coloring. Some of the deep pink roses are best colored without blooming, by rubbing Barnard's rose-lake over the petals. For crimson roses, these should be rubbed on one side with rose-lake, and with carmine on the inner side. For red roses with a more scarlet hue, such as Geant de Batailles, it is necessary to paint the petals, after rubbing them on the inner side, with liquid carmine paint mixed with weak gum-water, and put on as dry as possible with a poonah brush. An occasional dash of burnt carmine or violet paint will add to the natural appearance of the rose; and the outer petals will require this darkening, especially at the edges, where they become soiled by rain, etc.

The sepals of each rose must be carefully copied. They vary much in character and color. Some turn back from the flower over the seed-pod, and are almost flat: others are much cupped, and adhere closely to it. Some are fringed, others smooth. The moss-roses must have tiny branches of fine feather-moss gummed upon them. The thorns on the stalks may be imitated by modelling little pieces of wax to the right shape, and sticking them on, and painting them brown or red ; and the hairy appearance of some of the stalks may be given by gumming down on them.

The single roses, and many of the semi-double ones, must have a number of stamens in the centre, instead of the foundation-bud. These are made in the same manner as described for the nemophila stamens ; but they must be cut out of long strips of white or pale-lemon wax, with a narrow strip of yellow wax folded over one side for the anthers, and rolled round a green style, formed by enclosing the top of the wire stalk in green wax, and indenting it with the curling-pin ; and the anthers must be brushed over with a little gum, and powdered with orange or brown powder, to represent the pollen fresh or discolored. The stamens must be cut as thin as possible, and of the right length. Care must be taken to bind them on regularly and firmly, so that the centre of the flower may not slip off the wire stalk.