(1852)  Page(s) 317-318.  
 
I reached Shanghae in the month of April, 1850...The first [garden] I visited is about two miles from the south-west corner of the city, and is now well known to the foreign residents as the "South Garden". It was one of those in which I had found many new plants on my first visit to China. This little garden covers about an acre of land, and is surrounded, like many of these places, by a ditch, which is connected with canals through which the tide ebbs and flows....This garden contains many of the beautiful plants introduced by the Horticultural Society of London from 1843 to 1846. ...Several kinds of roses were growing in pots, and amongst them the new yellow, or salmon-coloured, introduced by the Horticultural Society. This rose deserves more notice at home than it has yet had; doubtless it will be more thought of when it is better known and properly treated. It should be palnted out at the foot of a wall witha southern or western aspect, and allowed to scramble over it. It grows rapidly; the flowers are of a striking colour, and are produced in great profusion...