144 ON THE CULTURE OF CHINA KOSES. 



Achimenes brought forward in the stove will now be coming into 

 bloom ; they repay for every attention. Cuttings of nearly all green- 

 house plants should now be put off; May and June are the best months 

 for that purpose. Cinerarias are highly ornamental, and well worth 

 encouraging. Cuttings of Roses may be put in, and will soon strike. 

 Camellias tiiat have been forwarded by forcing the shoots and buds 

 should now be placed in a cooler situation, to give vigour to them. 

 When the grass of Ranunculus or Tulips is quite dead, tiie roots may 

 be taken up. 



ON THE CULTURE OF CHINA ROSES. 



BY BOSA. 



In cultivating the Rosa odorota, or Tea-scented Roses, I have prac- 

 tised the following method with great success. Early in January or 

 February, I take some pots of plants into a stove which is heated to 

 60 or 70 degrees of heat. In the course of a short time, there are 

 some young shoots ready, which, as soon as they have five or six 

 leaves, I take off, and strip some of the under leaves from tiiem, 

 finishing them with a clean cut at a joint. Having prepared the 

 cuttings, I next prepare some 48-sized pots, with two parts fine sand, 

 one part sandy peat, and. one part leaf-mould. I then insert several 

 in each pot, and with a fine rose watering pot give them water just 

 sufficient to settle the earth. I then plunge them into a hot-bed 

 frame — or they will strike equally well in the stove, provided they 

 are covered with a small bell glass. After they have taken root, I pot 

 them off into 60's, using at this time sandy loam and leaf-mould. 

 About the middle of May, I turn a quantity out into the beds and 

 borders in the flower garden, where they bloom exceedingly well, and 

 fill the air with that delicious fragrance that is exhaled from them. 

 The remainder I keep in pots, to supply any place that may require 

 them. 



PINKS FOR FORCING. 



BY A COVENT GARDEN FLORIST. 



The Paddington forcing Pink and the Anne Boleyn are the best for 

 forcing that have hitherto been discovered. I raise the pipings early 

 in the season, pot them in four-inch pots, as soon as rooted sufficiently, 

 in rich turfy loam, keeping the pots plunged in coal ashes, in a shel- 

 tered, warm situation. By duly attending to them in water, &c., they 

 generally become vigorous, and require re-potting into five or six-inch 

 pots by November, at which time I take a lot in for forcing, and con- 

 tinue through the winter. Plants so treated, plunged into a bark pit, 

 produce twenty-five floAvers each. It is usual to prepare the young 

 plants for forcing in the open border, and take them into pots at the 

 end of summer, but they receive a check by removal. I find it to be 

 much better to prepare them in pots, as above described. 



