226 THE ROSE BOOK 



when one considers that it is possible to have a real rose 

 garden under glass, and that the blooms will come to 

 such perfect beauty there as one can only expect out of 

 doors through some unusual goodwill on the part of the 

 clerk of the weather. Every class of rose might be 

 represented, even to the lovely briers and Scotch roses. 

 A house thirty feet long, eighteen feet wide, ten feet 

 high in the centre, and five feet high at the sides, would 

 be an excellent one for roses. A central staging five and 

 a half feet wide and a staging two feet six inches wide 

 around each side, would complete the equipment. There 

 should be brick sides, with provision on the top for slates, 

 to be covered with ashes or shingle. A convenient 

 height for the central stage is three feet and for those 

 at the sides two feet. There should be one row of four- 

 inch hot water pipes alongside each path, and an addi- 

 tional row under each staging would be a great advan 

 tage, for bottom heat is very beneficial to roses. 



I would strongly advise the amateur to pot his own 

 roses. Firstly, they are superior to those purchased, 

 which are usually grafted in pots, and the roots are not 

 nearly so vigorous as plants from the open ground. 

 Secondly, they are much cheaper, because not only do 

 plants established in pots cost about 3s. 6d. each, but 

 there are such charges as carriage to consider, and these 

 items increase the cost of each plant to 4s. or 4s. 6d. 

 If the amateur pots his own roses they would not cost 

 him more than is. 6d. to 2s. each. Assuming, then, 

 that this advice is followed, I would recommend that the 

 plants be potted the first week in October. Select or 



