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be drawn as near to the edges of the pot as can 
safely be done without breaking them, then make 
fast with small pieces of bast matting to the wire. 
If it is desired to grow the plants for exhibition, 
they must be carefully watched, and the shoots tied 
out as they advance in growth. The best form is 
that of a pyramid. To keep the plants equally 
balanced on all sides, a little skilful training will be 
requisite. Any gross shoots which appear should 
be stopped; the weak ones consequently will be 
encouraged. The second year the plants will be 
better if grown in a low house where they can be 
placed near to the glass, and receive an abundance 
of air at all favourable seasons. To obtain plants of 
larger size suitable for exhibition, three vears must 
elapse before they can be brought into proper form 
and size. 
Rosr ConservaTories.—Nothing can possibly be 
more delightful and beautiful than a large con- 
servatory filled entirely with the choicest kinds of 
Tea-scented, Noisette, and China Roses. The 
temperature is delightful and most enjoyable at all 
seasons, but, perhaps, more so in the spring of the 
year, when cold, piercing, easterly winds prevail. 
Our conservatories thus possessing the genial 
temperature of Italy or the south of France, the 
frosts of winter cannot harm our Roses, neither 
can smoke nor dust stifle them; the whole being 
under easy control, can be tended at our pleasure. 
The green-fly, the greatest pest to Roses out of 
doors, is here easily destroyed; a few pounds of 
tobacco paper will bring a whole colony to grief 
