220 ROSES IN NOVEMBER. 



or clay and water, with much advantage; and 

 water should be poured into each hole on the mould 

 as it is filled in, and the loose surface-mould placed 

 on it, giving it a very gentle pressure with the foot. 

 Rose-trees treated in this manner will last for 

 several years, and their annual treatment may be 

 exactly as above given ; i. e. they should be taken 

 up annually early in February, and replanted in 

 April. In confined gardens, if the site for the 

 winter rose-border or clump cannot be changed, 

 it should be excavated to a depth of eighteen inches, 

 and fresh loamy soil brought in. They will, how- 

 'ever, prosper very well if planted in the same 

 border for several years, but then each plant must 

 have two shovelfuls of fresh compost of loam and 

 manure. Hybrid Perpetual Roses thus treated 

 will give their first blooms towards the end of 

 July; there are then plenty of roses of every 

 degree. Have mercy, therefore, on your winter 

 roses. Do not suffer them to exhaust themselves 

 with their liberal efforts to give you pleasure. 

 Pinch off one-half, or two -thirds, of their flower- 

 buds as soon as they are perceptible, and your 

 reward will be roses in November. 



In the following article in f The Florist ' for 

 December 1860, I have given another method of 

 inducing roses to bloom freely in the autumn, 

 headed 



