100 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN. 



placed under glass, but kept constantly in the 

 open air, in a full sunny exposure, as the wire 

 will shade the mould, and prevent its drying. 

 Water should be given occasionally in dry wea- 

 ther ; the young plants will perhaps make their 

 appearance in April or May, but very often the 

 seed does not vegetate till the second spring. 

 When they have made their " rough leaves," that 

 is, when they have three or four leaves, exclusive 

 of their seed leaves, they must be carefully raised 

 with the point of a narrow pruning knife, potted 

 into small pots, and placed in the shade : if the 

 weather is very hot and dry, they may be covered 

 with a handglass for a few days. They may re- 

 main in those pots a month, and then be planted 

 out into a rich border ; by the end of August 

 those that are robust growers will have made 

 shoots long enough for budding. Those that have 

 done so may be cut down, and one or two strong 

 stocks budded with each ; these will the following 

 summer make vigorous shoots, and the summer 

 following, if left unpruned, to a certainty they 

 will produce flowers. This is the only method to 

 ensure seedling roses flowering the third year; 

 many will do so that are not worked, but very 

 often the superior varieties are shy bloomers on 

 their own roots, till age and careful culture give 

 them strength. 



It may be mentioned here, as treatment ap- 

 plicable to all seed-bearing roses, that when it is 



