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three weeks. In the fourth week the should cut both of these into within two 

 cutting m;iy be potted." — Gnrd. Chron. : eyes of the short branch they started 



By Suckers. — Roses send up many j from ; and this would make each of 

 suckers annually, which may be taken [those branches start out two more ; and 

 up in autumn, winter, or early spring, ! unless to get the tree, or the dwarf 

 With some rootlets attached; and the ' bush, into any particular t'orni, we 

 strongest mav be planted out finally, ' should never omit cutting down shoots, 

 and the weakest in the nursery for a | and often cut out old lumps of wood 

 year or two or longer. They will ! and branches to thin the tree, which 

 readily grow, and will, most of them, I must never get crowded. By the same 

 produce liowers the following summer, rule we should always cut away all the 



When rose-trees have grown into j spindly shoots. China roses, and all 

 large bunches, with many suckers, the i constant bloomers, which require con- 

 whole may be taken up and slipped, or ' tinued attention, should have only the 

 divided into separate plants. The moss, 1 old wood and the weak shoots cut away, 

 and some others, furnish suckers but ! because any violent prunin;: would 



sparingly. 

 By Layers.- 



throw the plant out of flower for a con- 

 -To obtain shoots for ' siderable time ; while carefully remov- 



layering, a quantity of rose-trees should ' ing the seed-vessels, and taking away 

 be planted for stools, which, being ! weak wood to make room for the 

 headed down low, will throw out shoots ' stronger, will keep them constantly 

 abundantly near the ground, in summer, I flowering. This is especially requisite 

 for layering in autumn or winter follow- j with climbing roses, where the favour- 

 ing. They will be rooted by next able aspect, and other circumstances, 

 autumn, and fit for transplantation in may set the seed of almost every bloom. 

 nursery rows ; though sometimes the The swelling of their seed-vessels will 

 moss-rose and some others require two [ take all the nourishment from the shoots 

 years before they are tolerably well that would otherwise continue to grow 

 rooted. But of these sorts you may ' and bear flowers ; and the seed will 

 also try layers of the shoots of the year, [ often complete its growth and ripen 

 layered in summer, any time in June. } before there is anything like a general 

 They will probably root a little the bloom again." — Gard. and Prnr. Flor. 

 same season. The layers of all the I " A very good time for performing 

 sorts, after being properly rooted, j the operation is imjnediately after the 

 should be taken up in autumn and ] bloom is over ; cuttingout old exhausted 

 planted in the nursery, to have one or wood, shortening shoots which have 



two years' growth. — Abercromhie. 



flowered to a good bud accompanied 



Soil. — All the cultivated roses, and ; with a healthy leaf, but leaving such 

 especially the double-flowering kinds, j shoots as are still in a growing state 

 require a rich loamy soil inclining to untouched till October, 

 clay rather than sand ; and they require j " Where very large roses are wanted, 

 also, like most double flowers, plenty all the buds but that on the extreme 

 of moisture when in a growing stite. \ point of each shoot should be pinched 



Manures. — The best is a mixture of i off" as soon as they make their appear- 

 one part guano, three parts charred i ance, and the plant liberally supplied 

 turf and earth, and six parts cow-dung, with water. 

 A thin dressing pointed in every spring. ] "To lessen evaporation, and keep 



Pruning. — Mr. Glenny gives these up a constant moisture at the root of 

 very good and full directions: — 'their roses, the Paris gardeners gene- 



" Suppose we have a standard, with rally mulch them with half-rotten stnl)!e 

 only one branch from the bud, which is ' dung or partially rotten leaves." — Enc. 

 always stronger and better than if there Gard. 



are two or three — the first season we ; The Banksian Rose must be pruned 

 should cut that to within two eyes of at no other time, but immediately after 

 the ground, if a rose on its own root, or ' it has done blooming in June, or early 

 within two eyes of the stock, if it be a in July. 



budded one. These two eyes would, Planting. — "On removing trees,"' 

 the very first year, send out two bloom- ! says the author of the Tree Rose, " the 

 ing branches, which would grow a con- j fresh shoots they have made, and the 

 siderable length. The next season we | appearance of those which were left, 



