300 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
found to be of immense assistance to them, especially in the 
development of the later flowers. The pots must not remain in the 
water through the night. It is prudent to take the plants indoors 
as soon as the scapes begin to make their appearance. 
SELECTING AND PLANTING ROSES. 
BY AN AMATEUR EXHIBITOR. 
ea li current year will long be held in remembrance for 
| the excellence of the roses, and the splendour of the 
exhibitions of these flowers. In the early part of the 
year matters were anything but promising, but as the 
~ Spring merged into summer the weather improved 
materially, and in the result we had a display of roses which has 
seldom been equalled. All the exhibitions of roses, of which the 
number is gradually increasing, were remarkably good, for in all the 
leading ciasses the competition was very severe, and the roses 
throughout were of high-class quality. In gardens, too, where no 
attempt is made to produce exhibition flowers, the display has been 
so good that cultivators generally, as well as exhibitors, have had 
good cause to feel thoroughly satisfied with the result, so far as the 
roses are concerned, of the past season. As a natural sequence of 
this satisfactory state of things, it is anticipated that roses will be 
planted in the course of the ensuing season in much larger numbers 
than for many years past, and also that many amateurs will, for the 
first time, turn their attention to the cultivation of these beautiful 
flowers. For the purpose of enabling those who may be desirous 
of making a beginning, to start well, it is proposed, in the following 
remarks, to give a few hints on selecting and planting roses. 
It may first of all be said that no attempt will be made to give 
a complete code of instructions for the successful management of 
these flowers, but, instead, a few of the elementary principles will 
be discussed, and the details briefly explained. Controversial mat- 
ters will, as far as practicable, be avoided ; but it is impossible to 
proceed many steps without referring to the merits of the several 
kinds of stocks now employed as foster roots for roses, and the 
value of own-root roses as compared with those on the brier or 
Manetti. The value of “own-root ” roses has, upon more than one 
occasion, been pointed out in these pages, and in the Amateur’s 
Rose Book they are ably vindicated ; but as roses budded on briers 
and Manettis are still planted annually by the tens of thousands, it 
is necessary in the interest of the rose-growing community to refer 
to the matter again and again. The trade-growers have of necessity 
a preference for worked roses, and it is easy to understand why it is 
so. With the aid of either of the stocks mentioned above, plants 
furnished with good buds can be produced in two years from the 
time the stocks are planted. But those on their own roots make 
rather slow progress at first, and they are, consequently, longer 
