ON BUDDING ROSES. 



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Towards the end of November we cut the plants down close to 

 the pots, afterwards place them on the hack shelf in the stove, or in 

 fact any place where they can be kept dry, and free from frost. 

 There we let them remain until the first week in March, at which 

 period we again put them in the stove, and supply them with water. 

 In a short time their hop-looking shoots will make their appearance, 

 and when they are sufficiently long to make cuttings, (two, three, or 

 more joints,) we take off as many as are wanted, and pot them in 

 light rich loam mixed with coarse sand, and place them in a cucum- 

 ber or melon frame. In a fortnight, or a little longer, they will be 

 ready to pot off. One plant in a pot is sufficient. The compost in 

 which we grow them is a moderately strong loam, to which we add a 

 little rotten dung and leaf mould, the coarser the loam the better. It 

 is scarcely necessary to say any thing respecting the size of the pots 

 in which we grow them ; 24's are the size which we make choice of 

 for the first potting, and when they are filled with roots, we shift 

 them into a large succession pine pot, in which they remain till they 

 have done flowering. The old plants are now done with. Plants 

 raised from cuttings every year flower much more freely than old 

 plants, indeed I have kept an old plant for three years without its 

 showing a flower at all. 



The Thunbergia grandiflora, treated in the manner I have recom- 

 mended, will commence flowering about the end of May, and con- 

 tinue until the end of November. 



ARTICLE VII. 



OX BUDDING ROSES. 



BTC ROS.V. 



Having seen the common China rose (Rosa indica) flowering in 

 the greatest luxuriance most part of the year, when trained against a 

 trellis, or other objects, I have often felt surprised that buds of many 

 of the more choice kinds were not inserted in their branches, as all 

 who have any knowledge on the subject are aware, that, as stocks, the 

 China roses afford every chance of success. 



In selecting buds, it must be remembered, that all the different 

 varieties will not grow with equal success; it will be necessary 

 therefore to choose the free growing kinds, or such as seem to partake 



