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Teas," of which Duchess of Edinburgh, (bright crimson,) 

 La France, (light pink,) Duke of Connaught, (crimson 

 scarlet,) Duchess of Connaught, (deep carmine,) Coquette 

 des Alpes, (white,) Her Majesty, (blush,) and Wm. Henry 

 Bennett, (crimson,) are at present types. These require 

 an entirely different treatment from the Tea Roses proper, 

 as they are not strictly evergreens, but partly drop their 

 leaves in the fall; and hence, like all deciduous plants, 

 require a rest of at least two months, either by drying or 

 by a low temperature, before they can be forced into 

 flower, so as to produce the best results. 



FORCING HYBRID PERPETUALS AND HYBRID TEAS. 



To get the Hybrid Perpetual and the Hybrid Tea 

 classes early, (say during January,) requires special skill 

 and care, but well repays the trouble, as this class of Roses 

 now bring an average of $50 per hundred buds at wholesale 

 from the i5th of December to January i5th. The method 

 found to be necessary is to grow these Roses on in pots, 

 exactly as recommended for the evergreen or Tea Roses, 

 except that, as they have a tendency to grow tall, the 

 center should be pinched out of the leading shoots, so 

 that from five to six shoots run up, and thus not only 

 make the plant bushy, but, what is of more importance, 

 these slimmer shoots are less pithy and ripen off harder, 

 thus insuring with more certainty a greater production of 

 buds. 



The plants, if started from cuttings any time from Sep- 

 tember to January, which is the season we prefer to root 

 them in, will, if properly grown, by August ist, (or at 

 less than one year old,) have filled a seven or eight inch 

 pot with roots. Now is the critical point. The plants 

 must be ripened off and rested, if a crop of buds is 



