144 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



roots ; or, if preferred, Roses specially prepared for 

 forcing may be purchased. If any repotting be 

 required, it should be done in May. After they 

 have been placed in the house in November very 

 little heat should be at first given, but it may be 

 very gradually increased as the new growths appear. 

 The ventilation should also be gradually lessened. 

 As before recommended, the plants should be fre- 

 quently syringed until the new growths are about an 

 inch in length ; but after this the floor should, instead, 

 be sprinkled freely with water on all but dull, damp 

 days, or mildew may result. Indeed the great enemy 

 to guard against is mildew, which is a certain sign 

 of some defect in the treatment, either in watering, 

 the admission of air, or the exposure of the plants 

 to sudden changes of temperature. 



Roses in Beds. — This is really the most natural 

 way of growing Roses under glass, and if the choice 

 be restricted to the most free-flowering of the Teas 

 and Hybrid Teas, they may, if properly managed, 

 be kept in bloom from the beginning of November 

 till the end of May, or during the entire period that 

 no Roses are obtainable from the open ground, al- 

 though, as before stated, there may be but very few 

 blooms to be had during January and February. 



In order to make this method of growing Roses 

 a complete success, a house should be specially 

 built. A span-roof house running north and south 

 will be best, as the sunshine will then be more 

 equally distributed over it. The walls on the east 



