224 CHRISTMAS ROSES. 



feel, therefore, much pleasure in giving the result 

 of some experiments ending in perfect success ; 

 so that, in future, a bouquet of roses on Christ- 

 mas-day may grace the festive board in company 

 with the holly, rivalling in brilliancy the colour 

 of its berries. 



The Bourbon Eose, Grloire de Kosamene, is 

 now well known by every lover of this favourite 

 flower as a most brilliant and beautiful variety > 

 but, like many other roses remarkable for the 

 brilliancy of their tints, its flowers are deficient in 

 fullness; in fact> they are merely semi-double, 

 and, like all roses of this description, they fade 

 very quickly in hot weather : it is only in the 

 cool cloudy days of autumn, when their flowers 

 never fully expand, that they are seen in perfec- 

 tion. This quality induced me to turn my at- 

 tention to this variety, as well calculated to give 

 a crop of very late autumnal or winter flowers. 



Nothing can be more simple than their manage- 

 ment. Towards the end of May, young plants 

 from small pots should be shifted into 6 -inch 

 pots, in a good compost of two-thirds loam and 

 one-third rotten manure or decayed leaves, and 

 plunged in sawdust or old tan in the open ground, 

 fully exposed to sun and air. They may be 

 allowed to bloom freely all June and July, but 

 in August and September every blossom-bud 

 should be pinched off; this will make the plants 

 stout and very robust, and towards the end of 



