HOW TO HAVE ROSES IN "WINTER. 



bring this class of orchids together in one house, as well because they can thus be more 

 appropriately treated, as on account of the effect produced by such a combination of ex- 

 clusively elegant forms. 



Calceolarias, Cinerarias, tall Cacti, and many tribes that we need not mention, are cul- 

 tivated here in the best order in other houses and pits. Our notice, indeed, can by no 

 means do justice to the place, which contains, even among its minor features and mechan- 

 ical agents, very much that must interest the general cultivator. For example, there are 

 several large box-like frames, made high enough to contain moderately large specimen 

 plants, and capable of being covered with oiled calico or with glass lights, and ventilated 

 by small slides at the ends, which, with an eastern aspect, are well adapted for receiving 

 plants that have been newly potted, or such as are out of health, or those which may be 

 wanted to be kept from blooming so soon, or to be preserved longer in flower. There are 

 also some very convenient span-roofed pits, the lights of which work on a kind of hook- 

 like hinge at the top, and are l\isteiaed down by iron pins in windy weather. There can 

 be little doubt that pits of this description, made about 7 ft. wide and 4 ft. high (or a lit- 

 tle higher) in the center, with the lights to lift up (not slide) from the side, and capable 

 of being taken off altogether if required, are in all respects the cheapest and the most con- 

 venient, and the best structures in which to grow those green-house plants that may be 

 wanted for decorating a conservatory, drawing-room, or other place where flowers are 

 chiefly demanded. 



As a screen to some of the out -buildings in the plant house department, a strong privet 

 hedge is employed, the treatment of which struck us as worth mentioning. The top of 

 it is cut into a series of crescent shapes, the hollow of each crescent having the closely- 

 pruned head of a standard rose just rising above it. A character by no means common- 

 place, and which may serve as a hint to improve upon, is thus obtained. 



The period at which the greatest display of flowers may be seen at this place, is during 

 the month of May, when the majority of the house plants are in their highest glory. In 

 June, also, they are almost equally fine ; and in so large an establishment there will, of 

 course, be many plants in flower at all seasons. 



HOW TO HAVE ROSES IN WINTER. 



BY WILLIAM CHORLTON, STATEN ISLAND, N. Y. 



Dear Sir — As the winter flowering of roses is a matter of some importance to all lov- 

 ers of flowers, perhaps a few plain directions by which they may be successfully grown 

 and brought to bloom with little trouble or expense, from November till May, will be of 

 service in your journal. 



My present purpose is with the amateur and those having small green-houses managed 

 by themselves, without the assistance of professed gardeners. How many of these struc- 

 tures do we see which are in themselves unsightly objects, but which, by a little more 

 knowledge in the matter, would become gems of beauty. It is the duty of all competent 

 gardeners to assist in the general dissemination of the knowledge they possess; to lend a 

 helping hand to the enthusiastic lovers of flora, many of whom, for want of a little prac- 

 tical information, meet with constant vexation in their little operations. Our callin 

 never be injured by such a course. No profession will ever advance one jot the 



