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Stove. — As pines colour, they should be 

 kept moderately dry. Plants shy of fruit- 

 ing should be kept dry for awhile, to cause 

 a check, and then be liberally soaked, and 

 kept warm and moist, and the new growth 

 will result in the production of fruit. But 

 to check them before they are well matured 

 may cause premature fruiting, and should 

 not be done until the plants have had a 

 long course of liberal culture. Young stock 

 must be encouraged to grow strong, by 

 allowing plenty of room in which to expand 



their leaves ; give plenty of water, and re- 

 pot as necessary. In vineries great attention 

 must be paid to keeping the foliage healthy 

 to the last, as on this depends the matura- 

 tion of the buds that are to fruit next sea- 

 son. Keep up a moist atmosphere, and 

 watch vigilantly against red spider. Plants 

 heavily laden with fruit must have the 

 assistance of strong manure water. Be care- 

 ful not to cut away laterals too freely, as 

 they are most useful in helping the matura- 

 tion of the bunches. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Roses rooted in Water — Roses for Green- 

 house Culture. — E. — You are, perhaps, not 

 aware that, to root cuttings in water is now a 

 fashionable practice, or, rather, a practice largely 

 adopted by experienced growers. There is 

 scarcely any plant that comes from cuttings but 

 will come quicker and with less trouble, both 

 while rooting, and for potting off in sand and 

 water, than in any kind of compost. We rooted 

 lota of verbenas, geraniums, heliotropes, aud 

 other bedding stuff this spring in pans of sand 

 and water in a Waltonian case. It was done for 

 experiment only, and to settle points that need 

 not be entered on now, and, as the plants, when 

 rooted, were not wanted, they were thrown 

 away. Your roses, if really well-rooted, may 

 all be "transferred to the earth" without the 

 loss of one, but you muSt not transfer them to 

 earth out of doors, but to earth in pots ; aud in 

 this maimer make ready a lot of small sixties, 

 with crocks in the bottom, and two-thirds filled 

 with old leaf-mould and powdery dung ; then 

 make ready a mixture of peat and silver sand 

 run through a fine sieve; throw a pinch of this 

 mixture into each pot over the compost with 

 which you have partially filled them, and then 

 proceed to "transfer.'' Take a cutting in the 

 left hand, and place it tenderly in the centre of 

 a pot on the sifted peat and sand, and let the 

 tender roots range regularly on it without break- 

 ing one. Hold the cutting upright, and with 

 the right hand sprinkle the peat and sand regu- 

 larly over the roots till the pot is brimful to the 

 edge ; then press with the thumb, very tenderly, 

 to fix the stem in the centre, and, with the finest 

 rose-water pot you have, give the plant a sprink- 

 ling over head, and enough just to soak through 

 to the roots. If the plant hangs loose at the 

 collar, wedge it up on each side with a small 

 crock, for it will hardly bear to be pressed tight, 

 and at once place it in a cold frame on coal- 

 ashes, or tan, and shut in close and moist. 

 Finish the potting and framing of each one 

 separately, so as not to have any of them laying 

 about even for a few minutes. The after treat- 

 ment is simply to keep them close and moist, 

 and at the end of about ten days, to press them 

 a little firmer, and a week after, press them in 

 again, and from that date, your roses are safe. 

 Moss aud Provence roses for greenhouse cul- 

 ture, are usually preferred on their own roots, 

 but Teas, Bourbons and Perpetuals are worked 

 on the Manetti stocks. Many strong growing 

 kinds, especially of Hybrid Perpetuals, are 

 worked on short briar stocks, the bud being put 

 in close to the collar, so that at the next potting 

 it is scarcely visible. With the exception of ram- 

 pant growers, such as Multifloras, and some of 

 the Noisettes, there is scarcely any rose but may 

 be grown in a pot. The most prized, however, 

 are Teas, Bourbons, and Hybrid Perpetuals. 



Among the Teas take the following eight:— 

 Devoniensis, Adam, Comte de Paris, Niphetos, 

 Saffrano, Gloire de Dijon, Madame Willermorz, 

 and Duchess of Kent. Among Bourbons, Du 

 Petit Thouars, Louise Odier, Sir J. Paxton, and 

 Souvenir de Malmaison ; the last is the finest 

 for pot-culture that we have. The following 

 twelve perpetuals are first-rate for pot-culture: 

 —Jacqueminot, Baronne Larray, Baronne Pre- 

 vost, Duchess of Sutherland, Geant des Batailles, 

 Leon des Combats, Madame Laffay, Mrs. Rivers, 

 Mrs. Elliot, William Jesse, Jacques Lafitte, 

 and Lord Raglan. The grand secret in growing 

 roses in pots is to grow them so from the first. A 

 rose taken up and potted never makes such a 

 plant as one grown from a cutting and never 

 put out. At the first potting, the pots should be 

 very small so as to allow of successional shifts : 

 the soil should be loam, leaf-mould, and old hot- 

 bed dung in equal parts, with a little sand, and, 

 after the second shift, room should always be left 

 for a layer of rotten dung as a top dressing. 

 To get fine plants, every bloom bud should be 

 nipped off till the plants are strong and bushy. 

 Plenty of air, plenty of light, and plenty of 

 water are the three leading conditions of success. 

 In number six of " Garden Favourites," there 

 is a chapter on the pot-culture of roses, which 

 will thoroughly initiate you. 

 Azaleas done Blooming. — Rose. — First take off 

 the dead blooms, and seed pods, and clear away 

 the remains of the flowers that cling about 

 among the stems. Then give them a good 

 syringing, and put them in a warm close place; 

 syringe frequently till they have made new 

 growth. Then give air by degrees, and at the 

 end of a fortnight, put them under a north wall 

 or fence till autumn, and, before frost comes, get 

 them into the house and give water only moder- 

 ately. They should be just kept from frost, and 

 iu no way coddled, but may have extra warmth 

 and moisture when about to flower. A light 

 airy house with south, or south-east aspect, with 

 a ridge and furrowed roof, and means for breaking 

 the sun's rays ; morning and afternoon is the 

 best for roses. The grand thing is to ensure 

 plenty of light, and means for the freest ventila- 

 tion ; with these requisites, any kind of house 

 will suit. The mean temperature from December 

 to January should be 45°, and about February 

 to rise from five to ten degrees for early 

 blooms. Messrs. Lane, of Berkhampstead, grow 

 their choicest pot roses iu a span roofed house, 

 sixty feet long, twenty feet wide, and nine feet 

 high, glazed with sheet glass in large panes so 

 as to admit plenty of light. It is heated Pol- 

 maise fashion, but with some modification, and a 

 rapid circulation of air is kept by means of a 

 double flue. In the woodcut this house is re- 

 presented. The cold air descends to a drain at 

 c and rushes to flue, r, which communicates 



