190 CULTIVATION IN POTS. 



The treatment recommended for roses in a pit 

 with Arnott's stove may be pursued with roses in 

 a house with smoke flues or hot-water pipes. 

 Arnott's stove is recommended as an economical 

 and eligible mode of heating, practised here to 

 some extent with success for several years : on 

 these stoves an iron pan, fitted to the top, should 

 always be kept fall of water. To sum up, give 

 forced roses plenty of heat and plenty of air 

 during the day, and a low temperature, say from 

 35° to 45°, at night. 



CULTIVATION OF KOSES IN POTS 

 FOR THE GREENHOUSE. 



For this purpose a selection should be made of 

 some of the finer varieties of China and Tea- 

 scented Roses on their own roots ; it may also 

 include such Bourbons as the Queen, Acidalie, 

 Souvenir de la Malmaison, Noisettes, Solfaterre. 

 These are all of dwarfish and compact habit, and 

 free bloomers. Presuming these roses to be pro- 

 cured, in the spring or summer, in the usual small 

 pots they are generally grown in by the cultiva- 

 tors for sale, they should be immediately potted 

 into pots called 32's (these are generally 7 inches 

 deep, by 6 over at the surface), in a compost of 



