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against walls or In other warm situation in the 

 open air will be fit ; in the last-named month, 

 artificial heat for the grafts may he dispensed 

 with ; and a close frame, well shaded with mats in 

 sunny weather, and the plants sprinkled morning 

 and evening, will do very well, unless the weather 

 be windy and cool ; the grafts will then require 

 close moist heat, either from manure or hot water ; 

 in the former case, a common cucumber bed and 

 frame, kept closely shut, will answer every pur- 

 pose. These summer-grafted rose-trees are nicely 

 adapted for pot culture: those grafted in April 

 and May will bloom beautifully in the green- 

 house till the end of December. 



When the 4-inch pots in which the stocks have 

 been grafted become filled with roots, the plants 

 may be shifted into 7- inch pots, and plunged 

 in old tan or sawdust in a gentle hot-bed, in 

 a sunny exposed situation, till the end of Sep- 

 tember, if the weather be warm and dry ; if wet 

 and cold, they should be removed to the green- 

 house early in the month : from the greenhouse 

 they may be repotted into 8 or 9-inch pots, and 

 removed to the forcing-house : in January they 

 will give abundance of flowers, and amply reward 

 the cultivator. 



