106 THE ROSE. 



ridge during tlie day, unless the weather be 

 adverse. It should be the endeavor to keep the 

 temperature fifty-five degrees at night, and sixty- 

 five to eighty degrees during the day. If these 

 instructions are carefully heeded, there will be 

 an abundant supply of fine roses all through the 

 season, from the first of October to the end of the 

 following June, when the same process will be 

 repeated. Although the old plants can be used 

 for a second season, I do not advocate it ; the 

 extra expense and trouble of renewing the beds 

 of soil and the plants every season, I have proved 

 by experience is more than compensated for by 

 the better and more constant supply of fine 

 blooms. 



If it is decided to grow the plants in pots all 

 the season a somewhat different treatment is to 

 be followed. After the final shift the plants are 

 again placed on the bed of ashes, where they are 

 constantly to be watched and cared for, the dead 

 leaves picked off and the surface of the soil occa- 

 sionally stirred, care being taken not to disturb 

 the young roots. During hot weather it is best to 

 water in the evening, but when the nights be- 

 come cool the morning is a better time. By the 



