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and may be propagated by seed or dividing the roots, colours are 

 purple, pink and white. 



Rhodantlie, Composite. This plant is a native of the Swan 

 River, and is said to be as beautiful an annual as has been in- 

 troduced into the English collections, it grows to a large size ; 

 and is covered with innumerable blossoms of rose and yellow 

 colour when grown from seed, the plants require to be continually 

 shifted into larger pots, and the blossom buds at first pinched 

 off, the shifting may be repeated five or six times, until the 

 plants have acquired a shrubby character, when the flowers will 

 all expand and continue in succession for some time. 



Roses. Roses do very well indeed at Bangalore, and of late a 

 good number of excellent kinds have been introduced and are be- 

 come plentiful. A volume might be written on rose treatment, 

 but to be brief, and confining, remarks to treatment of roses in 

 pots : it is desirable to state, as a rule, that roses will never flourish 

 in a soil naturally wet or retaining sour water, perfect drainage 

 must be secured. The soil should be rather stiff or tenacious, 

 enriched with manure cowtjung, well rotted stable manure and 

 burnt earth. Old night soil that has been long mixed with earth 

 or ashes is also very good. Roses must be periodically pruned, and 

 once a year have manure to the roots, and this is best done in the 

 early rains when the roots are in full action, and every shower 

 should place an abundant supply of food within their reach. 



Pruning, the extraordinary vigour and beauty of some plants 

 on which goats had been browsing, gave the ancients the first idea 

 of pruning roses, three ends are sought in pruning to maintain 

 the plant in full health and vigour, to induce it to assume a fine 

 form advantageous to development of its blossoms, and to secure 

 an abundance of good flowers. If we leave a rose tree unpruned 

 for a year, a number of buds will burst forth producing masses 

 of blossoms fit for nothing. This can be seen after the rains on 

 unpruned Rose Edward trees, they send forth long coarse unri- 

 pened stems, bearing heads of buds twenty and thirty in number, 

 not one of which will be a perfect bloom, all such irnmatured 

 shoots should be eradicated. If an unpruned tree is allowed to 

 go on so for two or three more years, it becomes greatly enfeebled, 



