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roses that averaged $8 per 100 from November to June, 

 are now hardly salable at any price in the vicinity of New- 

 York, Boston or Philadelphia. Rose buds have for the 

 past ten years nearly supplanted all else in the way 

 of cut flowers, and still continue to do so, many hun- 

 dreds of acres of greenhouses now being used for their 

 culture. As Roses, then, are the most important of all 

 flowers for this purpose, I will begin with their culture, 

 following with the other plants used for cut flowers in 

 winter, in the order of their present importance. 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 

 ROSE GROWING IN WINTER. 



To propagate the plants to produce Roses in winter, 

 strong, healthy cuttings are put in to root at any time 

 from September to February. We keep the sand in our 

 cutting benches about sixty-five or seventy degrees Fahr., 

 with the temperature of the house ten degrees less. Rose 

 cuttings, under these conditions (if the cuttings have 

 been taken from plants in vigorous growth, and are free 

 from mildew and insects), will root in from twenty to 

 twenty-five days, and are then potted in any good soil, 

 in two and a half inch pots, and placed in a greenhouse 

 having a night temperature of about fifty-five degrees, 

 with ten to fifteen degrees more in the day-time. (See 

 chapter on Propagation of Plants. ) 



The young Roses are regularly shifted into larger pots 

 as soon as the "ball" gets filled with roots, great care 

 being taken that the plants at no time get pot-bound. 

 Syringing is done once a day to keep down red spider, 

 and fumigating by burning tobacco stems to kill the aphis 

 or Green-fly must be done twice a week. With such 



