30 COMMERCIAL ROSE CULTURE 



if they are uniformly moist. Do not water them enough to 

 make them muddy. 



It will save a lot of work and care if you can place your 

 young stock near the propagating house ; if your potting bench 

 can be located in the propagating house it will save a lot of 

 carting around. In any event, place the stock on the best and 

 sunniest bench you have got, setting them level on fresh 

 screened coal ashes. Shade the stock for a few hours daily, 

 for the first few daj^s, if sunny, reducing and discontinuing 

 this as soon as possible. Water carefully every day or two, 

 as needed, syringe well every fine day, once or twice, ac- 

 cording to conditions, to keep down insects and to induce 

 the lower eyes to break. Never allow the plants to become dry 

 and do not get them too wet as then there is danger of souring 

 the soil. A happy medium, such as will soon make itself ap- 

 parent to you, will be the right condition to keep your young 

 stock in. Have the foliage dried off before nightfall. 



Give the best of care and repot into larger pots as soon 

 as the small pots are full of roots. Pot into the same kind of 

 soil that you used at first, with the addition of a sprinkling 

 of bonemeal. A pot one inch larger will be large enough, and 

 then, if necessary, you can give them still another shift later. 

 Although this is seldom done, it is much better than making 

 too large a shift at once or than allowing the plants to remain 

 in one pot to spoil. 



