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strong plants of roses for forcing: when potted, 

 the large and unyielding roots should be cut off 

 close, so that the plants may stand in the centre of 

 the pots, the fibrous and small roots merely tipped. 

 The treatment recommended for roses in a pit 

 with Arnott's stove may be pursued with roses in 

 a house with smoke-flues or hot-water pipes. 

 Arnott's stove is recommended as an economical 

 and eligible mode of heating, practised here to 

 some extent with success for several years : on. 

 these stoves an iron pan, fitted to the top, should 

 always be kept full of water. To sum up, give 

 forced roses plenty of heat and plenty of air 

 during the day, and a low temperature, say from 

 35 to 45, at night. 



CULTIVATION OF EOSES IN POTS 

 FOE THE GEEENHOUSE. 



FOR this purpose a selection should be made of 

 some of the finer varieties of China and Tea- 

 scented Eoses on their own roots; it may also 

 include such Bourbons as the Queen, Acidalie, 

 Aurore du Guide, Souvenir de la Malmaison, and 

 Noisettes, Miss Grlegg, and Solfaterre. These 

 are all of dwarfish and compact habit, and free 

 bloomers. Presuming these roses to be procured, 

 in the spring or summer, in the usual small pots 

 they are generally grown in by the cultivators 



