226 LATE-BLOOMING ROSES. 



Manetti stocks in the grafting house, where, of 

 course, artificial heat is employed. They grew 

 well, and bloomed abundantly, in a cool house, in 

 April and May, but, as I have said, their flowers 

 not being thought first-rate, the plants were suf- 

 fered to remain in small 4-inch pots till the middle 

 of June, and then planted out, not being thought 

 worthy of further pot cultivation. The ground 

 they were planted in was heavily manured, so that 

 they grew very freely, but were not noticed till 

 the beginning of October, when the bed was ob- 

 served to be a mass of buds and blossoms, the 

 latter quite globular and of extraordinary beauty, 

 and so they have continued to be till this day, the 

 24th of November. Now this simple fact seems 

 to tell us, that what has resulted from accident 

 may be carried out by rose cultivators, and lead 

 to a method by which our rose gardens may be 

 made more beautiful in autumn than they have 

 yet been. 



The rationale of the matter seems to be this. 

 The plants from being cramped in their growth 

 in early summer, when all their energies are in 

 full play, hasten in autumn to make up for lost 

 time, and thus grow and bloom in the greatest 

 vigour. In the ' Grardener's Chronicle,' No. 47 

 (1860), page 1042, I have described strawberries 

 as bearing freely in autumn from having been 

 accidentally treated in the same way as my 

 L'Etoile du Nord Eoses. I should therefore 

 coimsel rose-lovers to pot in 4 and 6-inch pots in 



