200 ACCELERATING ROSES IN POTS. 



for many years, and imitated by numerous rose- 

 growers. 



About the first of May a hotbed should be 

 made, five feet wide and three feet in height 

 if of leaves and manure equal parts, all the 

 better, its heat will last longer on this bed 

 some light mould should be placed, about six 

 inches thick, supported by boards. Roses in- 

 tended for rapid growth should be taken from 

 their small pots, their balls of earth loosened, 

 and potted into 24-sized or 8 -inch pots, with the 

 usual compost ; these should be plunged up to their 

 rims in the bed, and the surface of each pot 

 covered with rotten manure, about an inch thick. 

 They may remain thus plunged for six or seven 

 weeks, at the end of which time the heat of the 

 bed will have declined ; the pots should then be 

 removed, and the soil they are plunged in ; the 

 bed should then be remade with about half its 

 bulk of fresh manure mixed with it, the pots re- 

 plunged, and the plants suffered to grow till 

 autumn, when they should be removed to pits or 

 houses appropriated to their culture. 



The luxuriousness of growth gained by this 

 method is quite marvellous, small plants become 

 large bushes, and put forth grand trusses of 

 flowers. 



