LATE-BLOOMING ROSES. 'I'll 



the month of November free-growing and free- 

 blooming roses, such as General Jacqueminot, 

 Kubens, Turenne, Victor Verdier, La Brillante, 

 Antoine Ducher, Louis Van Houtte, John Hopper, 

 Madame Victor Verdier, and others of the same 

 nature, so as to give diversity in colour, and allow 

 them to grow and bloom in an orchard-house or 

 greenhouse till the middle of June, and then cut 

 off their bloom-stalks and any flower-buds that 

 remain, and plant them out in a rich border. 

 Tlie plants may be subjected to this treatment 

 year after year, increasing the size of the pots to 

 a small extent, so as always to stint their spring 

 growth, for the roots of the plants will of course 

 increase in bulk, and will in due course require 

 8-inch pots; it must, however, be a point ob- 

 served, to give them as small pot-room as possible 

 that the early summer energies of the plant may 

 be arrested. 



I have, as it will be seen, pointed out thin- 

 petalled roses for this culture. I^do this from 

 observation only, for at this moment I have a bed 

 of the very old Eose Gloire de Rosomene in full 

 bloom, and its flowers, instead of being flaccid and 

 poor, as they are in summer, are globular, from 

 not being expanded, and quite beautiful. I have 

 also observed that some of the condenmed new 

 roses growing in the same bed as L'Etoile du 

 Nord have very double flowers and thick petals ; 

 these have bloomed very imperfectly. 



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