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effects of frost in winter and spring, and need not 

 be removed, as they will break through it in the 

 growing season without any difficulty. 



To have a fine bloom of these Eoses, or, indeed, 

 of any of the Hybrid Perpetuals, Bourbons, or 

 China Koses, in pots towards the end of summer 

 or autumn, take plants from small pots (those 

 struck from cuttings in March or April will do), 

 and put them into six-inch, or even eight-inch 

 pots, using a compost of light turfy loam and 

 rotten manure, equal parts : to a bushel of the 

 compost, add half a peck of pounded charcoal, and 

 the same quantity of silver-sand ; make a hotbed 

 of sufficient strength, say three to four feet in 

 height, of seasoned dung, so that it is not of a 

 burning heat, in a sunny exposed situation, and 

 on this place the pots ; then fill up all interstices 

 with sawdust, placing it so as to cover the rims, 

 and to lie on the surface of the mould in the pots 

 about two inches deep. The pots should have a 

 good sound watering before they are thus plunged, 

 and have water daily in dry weather ; the bottom 

 heat and full exposure to the sun and air will give 

 the plants a vigour almost beyond belief; this 

 very simple mode of culture is as yet almost un- 

 known. I have circulated among a few friends 

 the above directions ; and have no doubt that, in 

 the hands of skilful gardeners, some extraordinary 

 results may be looked for in the production of 

 specimens of soft-wooded plants. I may add 



