146 The Rose Garden. 



then if it is wished to carry the flowering season onward to February this can be 

 done by increasing the temperature, for if we select the proper kinds and keep them 

 growing, flowers will follow the growth as surely as the night follows the day. So 

 soon as the plants have done flowering they may be removed to a cold pit, giving air 

 gradually. In March they may be re-potted and pruned, and plunged out of doors, 

 where they will flower again in July. 



Once every year, late in September or early in October, all Pot-Roses except the 

 plants intended for Winter flowering should be turned out of their pots, shaking 

 away a good portion of the soil, and re-potting them in new or clean pots, larger if 

 thought necessary. Immediately after this operation they should be transferred to 

 some situation where they have the morning sun only a north border is a good place 

 and watering must be carefully attended to. When they have remained here for 

 two or three weeks they should be removed under glass, as some of the modern 

 varieties are not sufficiently hardy to endure uninjured the frost of a severe Winter. 

 At the time of repotting it is advisable, if disbudding has not been followed, to thin 

 out such shoots as will not be required for the succeeding year. 



Whenever plants are grown in cold pits, abundance of air should be given at all 

 seasons. Indeed, the lights need only be used as a shelter against frost or wind, or 

 heavy rain ; dews and slight rains are beneficial in Spring and Summer. In the 

 flowering season it will be necessary to afford shade during the middle of the day, 

 when canvas lights should be used instead of glass ones. 



