190 THE AUTUMNAL KOSE GARDEN. 



CULTIVATION OF ROSES IN POTS FOR 

 THE GREENHOUSE. 



For this purpose a selection should be made of 

 some of the finer varieties of China and Tea- 

 scented Hoses on their own roots ; it may also 

 include such Bourbons as the Queen, Acidalie, 

 Crimson Globe, Grand Capitaine, Madame Ne- 

 rard, Madame Margat, Proserpine and Phoenix, 

 and Noisette's Miss Glegg, Lelieur, Ne Plus 

 Ultra, and Victorieuse. These are all of dwarfish 

 and compact habit, and free bloomers. Presuming 

 these roses to be procured in the spring or sum- 

 mer, in the usual small pots they are generally 

 grown in by the cultivators for sale, they should 

 be immediately potted into pots called 32's, 

 (these are generally 7 inches deep, by 6 over 

 at the surface,) in a compost of turfy sandy 

 loam and well-rotted manure, equal quantities, 

 or leaf-mould ; if the latter is used two thirds 

 to one third of loam will be as well; this com- 

 post must not be sifted, but merely chopped 

 into pieces as large as a walnut : the fine mould, 

 which will, as a matter of course, result from this 

 chopping, must not be separated from the pieces 

 of turf, but all must be well mixed with the 

 manure or leaf-mould. The pots should then 

 be filled about one third with broken pieces of 

 crockery or potsherds, the plants taken from the 

 small pots, and the balls of earth gently pressed 

 so as to loosen them ; place each plant in the cen- 



