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one or two days ; the plants should then be 

 plentifully syringed : extraordinary luxuriance of 

 growth may be given by watering them once a 

 week with guano-water. 



A season may be saved in the growth of these 

 roses, if plants in larger pots than those they are 

 usually sold in are purchased : if thjese are pro- 

 cured in the autumn or winter, they may be 

 placed in the greenhouse at once with a certainty 

 of succeeding. 



CULTIVATION OF SUMMEE KOSES 

 IN POTS. 



FOR this purpose, a selection of the finest double 

 varieties are alone eligible. Plants worked on neat 

 stems not more than four inches high, and with 

 fibrous compact roots, so that they will admit of 

 being placed in the centre of the pots, should be 

 potted late in October or early in November, 

 in 24-sized or 8-inch pots, in a compost of loam 

 and rotten manure, or loam and leaf-mould and 

 manure, in equal quantities ; if to a bushel of this 

 compost half a peck of pounded charcoal is added, 

 it will be improved. After potting they should 

 be placed on slates, and then plunged in sawdust 

 or old tan, so that the surface of the mould in 

 the pots is covered about two inches in depth with 

 the material used for plunging. A sunny exposed 



