180 REMARKS ON CULTURE OF ROSES IN TOTS. 



for China Roses I would strongly urge in this case also; and what 

 has been there stated with regard to their subsequent management 

 applies equally to these also. Instead, however, of training these into 

 compact bushes, I would recommend them to be grown vigorously 

 in the early part of summer, and then, after being well matured, to 

 be trained at full length around a cylindrical or pillar trellis. In 

 order to carry out this principle to its fullest capability, two sets of 

 plants should be cultivated and bloomed alternately, the one being 

 pushed into rapid and vigorous development as early in the season 

 as possible, in order to mature the shoots before winter ; the other 

 having been so treated in the preceding season, to be managed with 

 entire reference to the development of blossoms, without regard to 

 the formation of woody branches ; this alternation being kept up, 

 strong blooming plants will be the result. Probably it might be pos- 

 sible to do this with one set of plants, and to secure a good bloom 

 from them annually ; but where the labour incurred by the other 

 plan would not be regarded as an obstacle, it would doubtless be fol- 

 lowed by the most marked results. A yellow or white Banksian 

 Rose treated thus, and successfully bloomed, would form a most 

 splendid object ; and that it may be so bloomed I do not entertain 

 the least doubt, as it is of free growth, bears an increase of tempera- 

 ture well, and is not chargeable with producing a paucity of flowers ; 

 the chief requisite towards ensuring success is to grow the plants into 

 substantial specimens, before a profusion of blossoms is expected from 

 them. Plants of these kinds, worked on a stock about three feet in 

 height, and the branches allowed to hang gracefully dependent on all 

 sides, vould, perhaps, form still handsomer and more ornamental 

 objects. 



Associated with these both in treatment and also in the mode of 

 training would be all those kinds included in §§ 9 and 10. 



The Scotch Rose, which I have chosen to illustrate the culture of 

 one section of this genus, is held in very general esteem on account 

 of its profuseness of blooming, its peculiarly neat and pleasing habit, 

 and its pretty foliage. There is little doubt that it would form an 

 equally pleasing and interesting subject for pot culture, were it not 

 that its blossoms are of short duration even when expanded in their 

 natural atmosphere, and would probably be still more fugacious in 

 the increased temperature and more confined atmosphere to which a 



