100 THE PERPETUAL DAMASK ROSE 



preferred ; for, on stems from one to two feet in 

 height, the flowers will not be soiled ; they are 

 also brought near to the eye, and the plant forms 

 a neat and pretty object. 



The Crimson, and, indeed, nearly all the Per- 

 petuals, force admirably ; for this purpose, it is 

 better to graft or bud them on the Manetti Rose, 

 as it is so easily excited. Those who wish for the 

 luxury of forced roses, at a trifling cost, may have 

 them by pursuing the following simple method : 

 — Take a common garden frame, large or small, 

 according to the number of roses wanted ; raise 

 it on some posts, so that the bottom edge will be 

 about three feet from the ground at the back of 

 the frame, and two feet in front, sloping to the 

 south. If it is two feet deep, this will give a 

 depth of five feet under the lights, at the back of 

 the frame, which will admit roses on little stems 

 as well as dwarfs. Grafted or budded plants of 

 any of the Perpetual Roses should be potted in 

 October, in a rich compost of equal portions of 

 rotten dung and loam, in pots about eight inches 

 deep, and seven inches over, and plunged in the 

 soil at bottom. The air in the frame may be 

 heated by linings of hot dung ; but care must be 

 taken that the dung be turned over two or three 

 times before it is used, otherwise the rank and 

 noxious steam will kill the young and tender 

 shoots ; but the hazard of this may be avoided by 

 building a wall of turf, tliree inches tliick, from 



