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to make their growth earlier each year, until they can be rested, and be 

 ready for starting towards the middle or end of October. Two rows 

 of 4-inch pipes all round the house will be ample for maintaining the 

 desired temperature. The side stages may be occupied with Teas or 

 Hybrid Perpetuals in pots, which can be introduced in successional 

 batches from Peach-houses or vineries, or any place where they have 

 been started. These side stages are also valuable for growing a num- 

 ber of young Teas in 5- and 6-inch pots — "projjagated every season" — 

 for a few autumn flowers; or plants of Gloire de Dijon, Marechal Niel, 

 Reve d'Or, and others of a similar growth, thinly trained under the roof 

 — after the Hybrids are over, and Roses in abundance can be obtained 

 from oatside — to be eventually, when ripe, trained round four or five 

 stakes, or any other form. A strong shoot should be selected, and one 

 only grown, and allowed to extend without stopping. The two first 

 varieties will often make shoots 20 feet long in a season. For some 

 time I propagated in the spring for this purpose, but found they did 

 not ripen sufficiently to produce real early flowers. The month 

 of June is now preferred, and the young plants are nice stuff in 5-inch 

 pots (on their own roots) before winter, which, if kept cool in a late 

 Peach-house for a time, and then started, will ripen their wood early, 

 and produce as many as twenty-six flowers from the shoot by the end 

 of January, every bud along the shoot producing a flower. When 

 sufficiently ripe towards autumn, they are placed outside for a time 

 to further harden them. They should be made secure in some sunny 

 position where the wind will not break them. 



Such varieties as Gloire de Dijon, Lamarque, Reve d'Or, Belle 

 Lyonnaise, Cheshunt Hybrid, Marechal Niel, Celine Forestier, are most 

 suitable for training up the roof. The first mentioned is the best for 

 early forcing. For early forcing to bloom during winter, the following 

 free-growing, profuse-flowering varieties will be found invaluable : Saf- 

 rano, Isabella Sprunt, Niphetos, Due de Magenta, and Rubens (a fine 

 old Rose). The following bloom well in the same house a little later : 

 Alba rosea, Adrienne Christophle, Goubault — very free in spring — Mad. 

 Falcot, Devoniensis, Homere, Jules Margottin, Louise de Savoie, Mar- 

 celin Roda, Marie Van Houtte, and Catherine Mermet. Many vari- 

 eties of Teas, when subject to early work, soon die out; others are 

 shy ; while others refuse to grow until the season is far advanced, — for 

 instance, Aline Sisley, Anna Ollivier, Bougere, Perle des Jardins, Perle 

 de Lyon, and many others, do not appear to do well if subjected to 

 much unnatural forcing : they should be grown in pots, and allowed 

 to come on more naturally. The first mentioned for the Rose-house 

 bed are unsurpassed, where delicate and fragrant buds are esteemed. 



Wm. Bakdney. 



