REMARKS ON CULTURE OF ROSES IN POTS. 181 



course of cultivation in pots would almost necessarily subject them. 

 The abundance in which they are produced would, however, com- 

 pensate in some degree for this defect ; and as this consideration may 

 induce some to give them a trial, it will justify me in noticing their 

 management. 



To cultivate them successfully, I would take young healthy plants 

 and place them in small pots, using a compost similar to that recom- 

 mended for the Provence Rose, and assimilating the general features 

 of their treatment to that already detailed when treating of that kind. 

 With regard to pruning, however, I would adopt a somewhat different 

 course, with a view of confirming and accelerating their naturally 

 compact and bushy habit ; in order to effect this I would continually 

 pinch off the points of the young growing shoots, leaving about three or 

 four leaves on each ; and this would be continued during their whole 

 season of growth until they were become large and compact bushes. 

 The whole course of pruning would be carried on on this principle 

 and with this view. In other points of treatment they may be asso- 

 ciated with those previously alluded to. With them I would class the 

 whole of those included in §§ 4 and 1, excepting perhaps the Double 

 Yellow Rose, and this, from its peculiar habit and the difficulty of 

 blooming it by any artificial course or treatment, I should scarcely 

 consider as being at all adapted to pot culture; if it were attempted, 

 I would recommend a course somewhat similar to that already laid 

 down for the Banksian Rose. 



Having thus far confined my remarks to the several individual sec. 

 tions, I will now endeavour to notice a few of the general features of 

 the treatment I would recommend. 



In the compost which I have already briefly noticed, it will be seen 

 that I have not recommended the application of any solid manures. 

 It is not because roses are plants which do not require a rich soil, or 

 which do not thrive upon the addition of manuring substances, that I 

 have hitherto omitted to notice them, but rather because I would pre- 

 fer to supply manure in a liquid state, and as such I would seek to 

 give it a prominent mention, not, however, with a view of recommend- 

 ing a copious application, but rather to caution and guard those into 

 whose hands these remarks may fall, not to indulge too lavishly in 

 applying it, but only at considerable intervals, and then only hi 

 small quantities. If plants in pots are kept supplied with good fresh 



