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able, their flowers would expand in perfection, 

 unscathed by those summer storms of wind and 

 rain, peculiar to our climate, so fatal to flowers, 

 and, above all, to roses : and if, on the contrary, 

 we have ' real merry days of June,' with a glowing 

 and unclouded sun, how agreeable would be the 

 shade of the * rosarium,' how beautiful the tints 

 of the flowers thus shaded, and how delightful 

 their perfume! If the weather be warm and 

 dry, roses placed in a temporary erection of this 

 kind should be carefully, but not too abundantly, 

 watered every evening and what is better than 

 saturating the pots with water the central path 

 should be sprinkled two or three times a day, and 

 water poured on the ground between the pots. 

 The canvas covering should always be drawn up 

 in calm cloudy weather, day and night, for roses 

 are impatient of confinement. 



CULTUEE OF EOSES IN POTS 

 FOE EXHIBITION. 



THE most elegant pot roses for exhibition may be 

 selected from those families recommended for 

 greenhouse culture ; but as it is now the fashion 

 for Horticultural Societies to offer prizes for 

 s roses in pots,' it becomes my duty to offer a few 

 observations on growing hardy varieties of roses 

 in pots, so as to form very large plants. I must 

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