PART IV 



Rose Growing under Glass 



CHAPTER XXX 



ROSES FOR THE GREENHOUSE 



Although roses are very frequently grown under glass 

 in the company of other plants, they are most success- 

 ful when a greenhouse is devoted to them alone. When 

 there is a mixed company it is impossible always to 

 provide conditions equally suitable to all, and the roses 

 are liable to suffer. If possible, then, the roses should 

 have the glass-house to themselves. The simpler it is 

 the better. There should be the maximum amount of 

 light, and for this reason part of the sides and ends 

 should be glass ; indeed, a wall of some two feet in 

 height would be ample. All the rest might be and really 

 should be of glass. The span-roofed house is the best 

 type, and the ends should point north and south. This 

 would form an ideal house for roses, and an ideal posi- 

 tion for it would be in a meadow, on that part of it 

 where the soil had been trenched the previous year. 

 This is, of course, a counsel of perfection to which per- 

 haps only the most fortunate among us may be able to 



attain. If one can manage it, it is really worth while 

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