ROSE GROWING IK WINTER. 165 



HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES. 



To get the Hybrid Perpetual class early (say during 

 December and January), requires special skill and 

 care, but it well repays the trouble, as this class of 

 Roses now bring an average of $50 per hundred buds 

 at wholesale from the 15th of December to January 

 15th. The method found to be necessary is, to grow 

 these Roses in pots, exactly as is recommended for 

 the evergreen or Tea Roses, except that, as they have a 

 tendency to grow tall, the center should be pinched 

 out of the leading shoots before they get a foot high, 

 so that from five to six shoots run up, and thus nofc 

 only make the plant bushy, but, what is of more import- 

 ance, these slimmer shoots are less pithy and ripen off 

 harder, thus insuring with more certainty a greater 

 production of buds. The varieties of Hybrid Perpetuals 

 best adapted for early forcing are : Anna de Diesbach 

 (rich pink), Countess of Oxford (very large, soft, rosy 

 carmine), Magna Charta (splendid bright pink), La 

 France (rich peach color), Mad. Gabriel Luizet (light 

 pink, splendid), Paul Neron (immense size, dark pink), 

 Baroness Rothschild (rich shade of rose), Rosy Morn 

 (cherry rose, large and full), Merveille de Lyon (pure 

 white, other characteristics same as Baroness Rothschild), 

 Anna Alexis (dark pink), General Jacqueminot (crim- 

 son), Princess C. de Rohan (crimson, almost black), 

 Dinsmore (crimson, scarlet), Marquis de Castellaine 

 (brilliant, pinkish carmine), Pride of Waltham (peach 

 color). 



The plants, if started from cuttings any time from 

 September to January, the season in which we prefer 

 to root them, will, if properly grown, by August 1st (or 

 at less than one year old), have filled a seven or eight * 

 inch pot with roots. Now is the critical point. The 

 plants must be ripened off and rested, if a crop of buds 



