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Very little pruning is necessary : some of the shoots may be cut 

 out entirely ; the others have their mere ends taken off. If grown 

 on their own roots, they may be trained as globular or columnar 

 bushes ; if grown on stems, the branches may be drawn downwards 

 in the form of a Weeping Hose. The two next in order — Cloth of 

 Gold and Solfaterre — are of vigorous growth, producing large flowers 

 of great beauty. Both are shy bloomers, especially the former. The 

 same soil as recommended for Pot-Roses in general may be used for 

 these varieties. Little pruning is necessary, and spiral training is 

 recommended. Seven out of the remaining eight varieties belong 

 to the Tea-scented, and the whole require a rich soil and close prun- 

 ing. The most advantageous systems of training are the round bush 

 or the pyramid. Were this group to be viewed critically, it might 

 be said they are not all ' ptirely yellow.' It might also be said there 

 are kinds excluded which have as just a right to the appellation of 

 ' yellow' as they. But when it is considered that the declension 

 from yellow to white and buff is so gradual that it is scarcely possi- 

 ble to fix the line of demarcation, and that a list of sixteen varieties 

 is given from which to select six, these points of criticism are hardly 

 tenable. If none others are allowed to be exhibited, or none whose 

 flowers are less yellow when brought to the exhibition-tables than 

 those of the sixteen above enumerated, the practical utility of the 

 arrangement will soon become apparent." 



The following chapter on forcing will exhibit the clear and satis- 

 factory way in which the matter is treated : 



" Roses required for forcing will succeed tolerably well if potted 

 early in the preceding autumn. It is, however, obvious, that by 

 being potted a twelvemonth previously, they become thoroughly es- 

 tablished, and are better enabled to support an accelerated growth 

 and premature development of bloom. If, therefore, we are anxious 

 to obtain a perfect bloom of forced Roses, and have plants that have 

 been a twelvemonth or more in pots, they should certainly be taken 

 in preference, and the fresh -potted ones be allowed to grow on for 

 the natural season of flowering. Presuming, then, the plants about 

 to be forced have been grown one year in pots, we will proceed with 

 our subject. 



Forcing -house. — A span-roofed house, with a longer roof toward 

 the south, is perhaps the best style of building. The interior may 

 be fitted up according to the taste of the proprietor. The various 

 systems of heating horticultural buildings now in vogue have been 

 frequently descanted on in the gardening periodicals, and it would 

 be out of place to speak of them here, except in general terms. 

 Heating by hot water, in its various modes of application, is gene- 

 rally acknowledged to be preferable to the old flue system, and in 

 no instance is it more so than for forcing Roses ; nevertheless they 

 will flower well in houses heated with flues. W^hen the latter mode 

 is adopted, syringing should be more freely resorted to ; and a pot 

 or two of water, poured down on the floor of the house every morn- 

 ing, is necessary to keep a moist atmosphere, which is very favour- 

 able to forced Roses, and, at the same time, noxious to the red spider, 



