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Pinch off the tops as soon as they begin to grow, and then 

 lateral shoots will come ; and if these get too vigorous check 

 them also, by which the bushy habit will be developed. 

 AVhen this is secured grow the plant right on, and all the 

 ends of the shoots will give flowers. When the bloom begins 

 to open it should be put into the part of the hothouse that 

 is coolest, preparatory to removal to the conservatory or 

 other place which it is intended to decorate with its flowers. 



ROSA. Rose. [^Rosaceae.] The varieties, colours, and 

 habits of the Rose are almost endless. They are grown either 

 on theh own roots, or budded on stocks — that is, stems — of 

 the common dog-rose. When we see the dog-rose grow 

 luxuriantly in a dry bank, among brambles and other plants 

 that seem to choke it, it is hardly reconcilable with the 

 popular notion that Roses require very rich soil; and if one 

 of these briers or dog-roses be budded as it stands in the 

 hedges, the variety so budded on it will grow so strong that 

 we are bound to consider a Rose will grow in anything. There 

 is, however, one consideration which may account for the 

 almost rampant growth of hedge-roses — the roots run to an 

 immense distance, and proceed onwards till they reach the 

 soil that, suits them. The R-ose will grow well in any soil 

 that will grow a cabbage well. In planting Roses cut all the 

 ragged and damaged parts of the root clean with a sharp 

 knife ; if any part of the root is bruised, remove it ; f)lant 

 these the same depth that they have been growing before ; 

 prune out all the thin twigs or shoots from the head or bush ; 

 cut out all the branches which are in the way of others ; cut 

 back all the last year's wood to three eyes, and always make 

 the cut sloping, and just above a bud. When they are grow- 

 ing rub off the buds that are growing inward so as to crowd 

 the head. It is a good plan to prune Roses at two, if not 

 three seasons, for on the pruning the season of bloom depends. 

 The early-pruned ones grow as soon as the unpruned ; the 

 latter push the eyes towards the end, while the eyes next the 

 stem do not push at all : by pruning off all the grown eyes, 

 the ungrown ones have to begin their growth when the pruned 

 bushes have grown for a month, and thus later flowers are 

 obtained. 



ROSE ACACIA. See Robinia. 



