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will then bloom again finely in May. I find, from experience, 

 that all the autumnal roses may be forced every year without any 

 disadvantages ; to ensure their well-doing, they must be removed 

 from the forcing-house early in June, the surface of the pots 

 dressed with rotten manure and plunged in the same, or leaves, 

 or any light substance. Toward the end of September, they 

 should be carefully shifted, removing nearly all the' earth from 

 their roots into a compost of light loam and rotten dung, equal 

 quantities (this is, on the whole, the very best compost for potted 

 roses), watered, and again plunged till required for forcing. This 

 shifting would be better performed in June, but, as the weather 

 is then hot and dry, roses worked on the Dog-Rose are apt to 

 suffer. Pots of the sizes called near London, 24s and 16s (the 

 former seven and a half inches deep and eight inches over at the 

 top, the latter eight and a half inches deep and nine inches in 

 diameter), are the best sizes for strong plants of roses for forcing. 

 When potted, the large and unyielding roots should be cut off 

 close, so that the plants may stand in the centre of the pots, the 

 fibrous and small roots merely tipped. 



" The treatment recommended for roses in a pit with Arnott's 

 stove, may be pursued with roses in a house with smoke-flues or 

 hot-water pipes. Arnott's stove is recommended as an economical 

 and eligible mode of heating, practised here to some extent with 

 success for several years. On these stoves an iron pan, fitted to 

 the top, should always be kept full of water. Roses may be forced 

 slowly, but w r ith perhaps greater certainty, by the uninitiated, by 

 giving air freely and constantly in mild weather during the day, 

 keeping the fire constantly burning during the same period, as 

 recommended when keeping them closely shut up." 



We have copied the whole of this article, although in a meas- 

 ure a repetition of previous remarks, since it may be interesting 

 to some to know the opinion of so eminent a cultivator, on this 

 least understood branch of rose culture. A few of his directions 

 are somewhat different from those we have given before, and may 

 be far better than our own plan, in the climate of England. 

 Here, an Arnott's stove would scarcely heat a pit to 70 with the 



