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worthy of further pot cultivation. The ground 

 they were planted in was heavily manured, so that 

 they grew very freely, but were not noticed till 

 the beginning of October, when the bed was ob- 

 served to be a mass of buds and blossoms, the latter 

 quite globular and of extraordinary beauty, and so 

 they have continued to be till this day, the 24th 

 of November. Now this simple fact seems to tell 

 us, that what has resulted from accident may be 

 carried out by rose cultivators, and lead to a 

 method by which our rose gardens may be made 

 more beautiful in autumn than they have yet 

 been. 



The rationale of the matter seems to be this. 

 The plants, from being cramped in their growth 

 in early summer, when all their energies are in full 

 play, hasten in autumn to make up for lost time, 

 and thus grow and bloom in the greatest vigour. 

 In the 'Gardeners' Chronicle,' No. 47 (1860), 

 page 1042, I have described strawberries as bear- 

 ing freely in autumn from having been accidentally 

 treated in the same way as my L'Etoile du Nord 

 Eoses. I should therefore counsel rose-lovers to 

 pot in 4 and 6-inch pots in the month of November 

 free-growing, thin-petalled roses, such as the 

 above, General Jacqueminot, Oriflamme de St. 

 Louis, Triomphe des Beaux Arts, and others of 

 the same nature, so as to give diversity in colour, 

 and allow them to grow and bloom in an orchard- 

 house or greenhouse till the middle of June, and 



