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turfy sandy loam and well-rotted manure, the loam 

 must nut be sifted, but merely chopped into pieces 

 as large as a walnut : the fine mould, which will, 

 as a matter of course, result from this cliopping, 

 must not be separated from the pieces of turf, but 

 all nmst be well mixed with the manure or leaf- 

 mould. The pots should then he tilled about one- 

 fourth with broken pieces of crockery or potsherds, 

 the plants taken from the small pots, and the balls 

 of earth gently pressed so as to loosen them ; place 

 eacli plant in the centre of the large pot : press 

 the earth well round them ; give a soaking of 

 water and plunge them in sawdust or tan, in 

 some sunny exposed place, where they may have 

 all the sun our fickle climate will give them. 

 They may remain plunged till early in October, 

 when they should be removed into the greenhouse ; 

 but a fortnight before taking them into their 

 winter-quarters, lift every pot, and place it on the 

 siu'face of the bed in which they have been 

 pliurged : their roots then become hardened, and 

 bear the dry warm air of the greenhouse without 

 injiu-y: they shoidd at this time also be primed 

 into any handsome desirable shape (a compact 

 bush is perhaps tlie prettiest;, or, if tall plants are 

 required, the long shoots may be fastened to a 

 neat painted stick. Roses thus treated will come 

 into bloom in the greenhouse in April, and con- 

 tinue one of the brightest ornaments till the begin- 

 ning of June ; they should then be repotted into 



