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completely to one horizontal arm, according to my 
instructions, and then fed it twice a week with 
liquid manure. The growth was so great that at 
Christmas in the same year he had not only 213 
feet of strong new wood trained under the glass, 
but had also actually cut away of new wood (much 
of these being secondary laterals), as too much for 
his room, no less than 291 feet. The plant had thus 
made 168 yards of new growth in9 months! The 
trained shoots, after judicious thinning of the buds, 
produced 416 fine blooms between Christmas and 
April; there ought to have been more, but several 
of the shoots had, owing to the exigencies of the 
space, to be trained for a short distance perpendi- 
cularly, and they only broke into flowering shoots 
when laid horizontally. 
All was cut away again in April, 1904, to the old 
horizontal arm, and 11 shoots from it, most of them 
as thick for a considerable distance as one of my 
fingers were allowed to grow. These shoots I took 
the pains to measure and they were aggregated over 
227 feet, and were still growing fast. 
In this mode of culture under glass mildew is the 
principal trouble, and the ventilators should be kept 
entirely shut when the wind is cold. The variety 
has another piece of bad manners which is most 
troublesome under glass, because there is more 
growth there, viz., a liability to canker, especially 
at the point of union between stock and scion. As 
this probably arises from the inability of the briar 
stem to swell sufficiently for the growth of the Rose, 
a useful preventive measure is to make one or two 
longitudinal cuts through the bark, passing through 
the point of union and extending some little way 
