l8 HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OP CAPE HEATHS. 



to retain them in the position. These materials keep the frost from 

 the roots better than any other material I have tried. 



If there be a cold frame or pit in which the plants could be 

 plunged, so much the better for them to be so placed. I had not that 

 convenience then. The plants were allowed to grow where plunged 

 in the border, duly watered, &c., till the following October. The 

 plants were then pruned to three buds on each side shoot, put into 

 the cold pit till February; I had them then removed into the forcing- 

 house, giving them every desired attention, and the first week in 

 April I repotted them into 16-sized pots, and retained them there till 

 the first week in May, when they had finished their growth. I then 

 placed them in a fined pit, which I kept about as warm as a green- 

 house, gave them sufficiency of air, &c. ; the shoots became firm, and 

 hardened gradually ; and about the 21st of May, I had the plants taken 

 out, and the pots were plunged up to the rims in a good aspected 

 border. As I before observed, I am always watchful about August 

 and September that a second growth docs not take place, b\it remove 

 them to a cooler situation to check it when such is likely to occur. 



About the middle of October I remove those plants I wish to force 

 into the cold pit frame, and prune them to three buds on each shoot ; 

 and early in December take them into the house for forcing as my 

 bearing crop. A usual succession are taken in, as I before remarked, 

 so as to supply me through the season. So universally are Roses in 

 esteem at the spring season, that although I grow so many I have 

 always a demand for my stock. Each successive year I raise a supply 

 of layers, pot and repot, so that I now have annually a supply of 

 young vigorous plants, which produce me a splendid bloom, amply 

 repaying for the attention given to so lovely a flow-er. Whoever 

 pursues the same course of management will be certain of success. 



HINTS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF CAPE HEATHS. 



BY A LONDON EXHIBITOR. 



It used to be a generally received opinion that Cape Heaths were 

 very diGBcult to manage. From the simplicity of the modes of cul- 

 ture recommended in communications inserted in former Numbers of 

 the Cabinet, I was encouraged to attempt their cultivation, and have 

 now succeeded most admirably. The following particulars contain 

 my general routine of management. 



I possessed frames of the usual kind, and observing that the j'oung 

 plants of two or three years old in the superb coHection of Mrs. 

 Lawrence, at Ealing Park, were kept in spring and summer in 

 frames, the plants standing upon bricks or tiles, and the frames 

 raised up four or five inches, being supported on a brick on edge at 

 each corner, in order to admit a current of air to pass through the 

 plants, I had two of my frames so fi.xed, and early in April, 1844, 

 I purchased a selection of kinds 1 had marked down at exhibitions, 

 and observed in the nursery collections around London ; the plants 

 were of a youthful age. I re-potted them as follows : -From a nur- 



