190 The Rose Garden. 



When the flowering is over the flower-stalks should be cut off, and a second 

 growth will shortly ensue. The Autumnals, which bloomed in May, will flower 

 again in August; those of June, in September; and if those of July are placed 

 in a warm greenhouse in September some of them may be kept in flower till 

 Christmas. 



Before concluding this chapter I think it right, in the interest of truth, to state 

 my opinion that the most successful prize-winners are not always the soundest 

 cultivators. There is, too, a deal of art in exhibiting for prizes with which cultivation 

 has nothing to do. Further, the " cram " system of cultivation necessary to produce 

 the large cut flowers required for prize-winning often produces plethoric plants with 

 unripened wood, which the purchaser of young plants especially should avoid when 

 he can obtain plants with moderate and matured shoots. 



