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A season may be saved in the growth of these 

 roses, if plants in larger pots than those they are 

 usually sold in are purchased : if these are pro- 

 cured in the autumn or winter, they may be 

 placed in the greenhouse at once with a certainty 

 of succeeding. 



CULTIVATION OF SUMMER ROSES 

 IN POTS. 



For this purpose, a selection of the finest double 

 varieties are alone eligible. Plants worked on neat 

 stems not more than four inches high, and with 

 fibrous compact roots, so that they will admit of 

 being placed in the centre of the pots, should be 

 potted late in October or early in November, 

 in 24-sized or 8-inch pots, in a compost of loam 

 and rotten manure, or loam and leaf-mould and 

 manure, in equal quantities ; if to a bushel of 

 this compost half a peck of powdered charcoal is 

 added, it will be improved. After potting they 

 should be placed on slates, and then plunged in 

 sawdust or old tan, so that the surface of the mould 

 'inthepotsis covered about two inches in depth with 

 the material used for plunging. A sunny exposed 

 situation is better than under a wall, for when 

 placed near a wall the branches always incline 

 from it, so that the plant, in lieu of being round 

 and compact, as it ought to be, becomes one- 







