MANY OF the ever-blooming roses cannot, in our 

 climate, be cultivated in the open air without extreme 

 precaution to protect them from the cold. To grow them 

 most successfully, the aid of glass is necessary. Many of the 

 Hardy Perpetual roses may also be grown with advantage in 

 pots, by which means their bloom may be prolonged into the 

 early winter months, or they may be forced into premature 

 flowering long before their natural season of bloom. The 

 first essential in the pot culture of roses is the preparation 

 of the soil. Those of delicate growth, like most of the 

 China and Tea roses, require a lighter soil than the more 

 robust varieties, like most of the Hardy Perpetuals. A 



mixture of loam, manure, leaf-mould, and sand, in the pro- 

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