REMARKS ON CULTURE OF ROSES IN TOTS. 1T9 



are very apt to die off immediately on being removed from the cutting- 

 pot. Of the subsequent treatment of the plants during the remainder 

 of tbeir infant stages I need say but little ; they require the same 

 care in watering, potting, and routine culture, which all plants in the, 

 purely artificial position of a garden-pot imperatively demand, and 

 for a neglect of which no justifiable reason can be adduced on the 

 part of the cultivator, unless, indeed, it be that his attention is taxed 

 beyond his powers or the means under his command. 



As far as regards pruning and training, these plants offer some dif- 

 ference from those already noticed ; when young they should be con- 

 tinually stopped, to induce a permanently bushy habit; after a sea- 

 son's growth they would only require a few of the principal branches 

 to be entirely cut out, and the remainder left without any shortening 

 or cutting in ; this will admit a circulation of air among them, and 

 tend to promote a well-developed and rigid growth, and a consequent 

 profusion of blossoms. When in growth, during the summer, they 

 should not be cut in, excepting it may be that an occasional luxu- 

 riant shoot may require reducing within limitable extent ; they will 

 continue blooming and developing in succession for several months. 

 They will not require for the most part any artificial support to their 

 branches, as their habit will be sufficiently rigid to bear up their 

 blossoms, and the graceful laxity in which they will be disposed will 

 be infinitely preferable in point of taste to the appearance of a legion 

 of stakes, with which by far the greater number of specimen plants 

 are garrisoned in. 



With these, and those treated of under the next head, the one-shift 

 practice may be successfully adopted. It is not desirable here to 

 enter into a consideration of the merits or demerits of this practice; 

 it will be sufficient for us to know that it has some advantage, pro- 

 vided proper subsequent treatment is afforded ; whilst, on the other 

 hand, if this is neglected, and the plants are incautiously managed, 

 it is possible that it may produce very unsatisfactory results. The 

 plants included in §§ 2 and 8, with some of the dwarfer kinds in §§ 9 

 and 10, I should recommend as being adapted for this mode of treat- 

 ment, or some modification of it. 



We come now to the treatment of the Banksian Rose, which was 

 chosen as being a type of a considerable number of its congeners with 

 respect to cultivation. The method of propagation already recommended 



