LATE-BLOOMING ROSES. 221 



'LATE-BLOOMING ROSES.' 



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MY attention all this month of November, and the 

 preceding one of October, has been drawn to a bed 

 of roses, consisting of a score or two of dwarf 

 plants, which have had an unceasing succession of 

 beautiful flowers, far beyond anything I have ever 

 seen in autumn-blooming roses. On looking into 

 them I found them to be a new variety of Hybrid 

 Perpetual Rose called L'Etoile du Nord, which 

 was one of the new roses of 1860, condemned as 

 not being up to my standard, its petals being thin, 

 and the rose, although very large and of a brilliant 

 crimson, seeming an inferior variety of General 

 Jacqueminot, from which one would judge it had 

 been raised. As the treatment of these roses 

 may be of interest, and lead to a new and simple 

 mode of cultivating roses for blooming very late 

 in the season, I will, in a few words, give it. 



The original plants were received from France 

 in December 1859, with other new roses, and 

 their shoots taken off in January and grafted on 

 Manetti stocks in the grafting-house, where, of 

 course, artificial heat is employed. They grew 

 well, and bloomed abundantly, in a cool house, in 

 April and May, but, as I have said, their flowers 

 not being thought first-rate, the plants were suf- 

 fered to remain in small 4-inch pots till the middle 

 of June, and then planted out, not being thought 



