SECT. XIX, LISTS OF TREES, &C. 329 



The order of blowing may be reckoned thus : Cin- 

 namon, (sometimes called the May-rose) monthly 

 damask, burnet, Scotch, Pensylvanian, apple, &c. 

 Then the latest roses we have, are those of the 

 monthly again, and the musk. Occasionally every 

 sort may bear a few late ones, but chiefly the Pro- 

 vence. To encourage this shrub to treat us in the 

 latter part of the year, pulling off the first roses, as 

 soon as they begin to decay, is a means ; but to pull 

 off all the buds, at the usual time of blow, from a 

 few trees, is a more certain method. A more sure 

 way still, is to top the new shoots towards the end of 

 May, or prune down to two or three eyes : These 

 manoeuvres should be particularly exercised on the . 

 monthly sorts. Transplanting roses in spring is a 

 means to effect a middle blow ; and if into a North 

 border, and cool ground, this may be done late in 

 April, or even in May, (occasionally watering) 

 pruning at the same time short. Early roses are 

 obtained by being trained against a south wall. The 

 monthly thus planted, and having glass (as the light 

 of a cucumber frame) put before it, will sometimes 

 come as early as the end of April, or beginning of 

 May. Some put moss round the roots of these 

 wall trees in March, to keep the ground warm and 

 moist, iu order to forward large roses* 



To dispose rose trees to bear forward, the not suf- 

 fering any flowers to blow the present year, and 

 pruning short in July, or August, is a means from 

 which much may be expected, especially if there is 

 any artificial warmth used in the spring to force them. 

 With a view to this, some good brushy rooted, low 

 growing plants, may be potted in autumn, not suf- 

 fered to bear the next summer, and being pruned 

 down (as above) will force well the next spring. 

 Rose trees potted for an ordinary blow, must not be 

 10 too small pots, nor placed in a warm situation, 



