ROSES UNDER GLASS. 119g 
The plants should be placed about sixteen or 
eighteen inches apart, each way, and should 
be in position in June or July. When well 
established and growing freely, give them a 
mulching of good rotten manure mixed with 
bone-dust; one shovel bone-dust to twenty 
of manureisagoodproportion. The amount 
of water to be given will vary with the 
weather; during clear and hot days they 
should have a vigorous spraying, given by a 
syringe or from the hose, twiceaday. When 
it is cloudy or cool they may need butaslight 
sprinkling once a day. The soil should 
never be allowed to become dry so as to show 
dust, or to be saturated with water; either 
extreme is dangerous to the health of the 
plants. From the time of planting out, say 
the last of June, until the middle of Septem- 
ber, or until the nights become chilly, all the 
ventilators should be constantly left wide 
open; when cool weather begins they must 
be closed at night, but air should always be 
given from the ridge during the day, unless 
the weather be adverse. It should be the 
endeavor to keep the temperature fifty-five 
degrees at night, and sixty-five to eighty de- 
grees during the day. If these instructions 
are carefully heeded, there will be an abun- 
dant supply of fine roses all through the sea- 
