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suspending the bag in a tub containing twenty gallons 

 of water. The Hquid animal manure may be used for 

 a time, and then as a change the soot water substi- 

 tuted. Much of the success of Rose growing under 

 glass depends upon judicious watering — that is to say, 

 on giving plenty of water whenever the plants really 

 require it, and thus avoiding the objectionable practice 

 of mere surface sprinkling at each time of watering, 

 whatever the requirements of the individual plants at 

 the time may be. Plenty of room should be allowed 

 between the plants, so that light and air can reach all 

 parts of them ; with the same object the best of the 

 new growths when sufficiently long should be secured 

 to light sticks placed near the edge of the pots. At 

 the same time it will be necessary to remove altogether 

 any of the new shoots which may not be required to 

 furnish the plant. Four to six flowering shoots will 

 be found as a rule sufficient for such young plants. 

 At this stage about an inch of the surface soil in the 

 pots should be removed, and a mixture of well- 

 decayed manure and leaf-mould substituted. This 

 surface dressing will tend to keep the roots cool and 

 moist ; it should not, however, be thicker than the soil 

 removed from the pots, or there will not be sufficient 

 space left for watering. 



On every fine morning, from the time the Roses are 

 pruned, the plants should be syringed until the new 

 shoots are about an inch in length ; then stop 

 syringeing and sprinkle the floor to keep the atmos- 

 phere fairly moist. It may appear strange that in the 

 dull months of the year this " damping down " should 



