ROSES IN POTS. 



Marne. Emilie Courtier. Enfant d'Ajaccio. Julie 

 Deloynes. Le Grand Capitaine. Madame Aude. 

 Madame Nerard. Paul Joseph. Proserpine. Queen, 



CHINESE : Augustine Hersent. Belle Isidore. Lady 

 Warrender. Louis Philippe. Madame Breon. 

 Madame Bureau. Madame Desprez. Marjolin. 

 Mrs Bosanquet. Napoleon. Prince Eugene. 



TEA-SCENTED : Adam. Archiduchesse Therese. Barbot. 

 Belle Archinto. Bougere. Bride of Abydos. Caro- 

 line. Comte de Paris. Devoniensis. Don Carlos. 

 Elise Sauvage. Eugene Desgaches. Fragoletta. 

 Goubault. Hamon. Julie Mansais. Madame Rous- 

 sell. Josephine Malton. Moiret. Niphetos. Nina. 

 Pactolus. Prince d'Esterhazy. Safranot. Taglioni. 



Roses trained as climbers would form very beautiful 

 objects in pots. If allowed to grow to the height of three 

 or four feet and then stopped, I imagine they would throw 

 out lateral shoots and become covered with foliage and 

 flowers from the top to the edge of the pot. For this 

 purpose I should select, in preference to the Ayrshire, 

 Boursault, and Sempervirens, some of the Hybrid China, 

 Hybrid Perpetual, Noisette, and Bourbon, that are most 

 vigorous in growth, the flowers of the former being mostly 

 small or semi-double. Notwithstanding this, they are 

 perhaps unequalled when grown as pillar Roses in the open 

 ground. Their growth is rapid and graceful, and their 

 large corymbs of flowers render them a mass of beauty. 



When purchasing Roses such plants as are not kept in 

 pots should be removed from the ground early in Autumn 

 as soon as the shoots are sufficiently ripened, which they 

 generally are by the end of September. In potting, the 

 sized pots best adapted are Nos. 12, 16,24, an d 32, accord- 

 ing to the size and habit of the plant, and these $hould be 

 well drained. The soil used should consist of equal parts 

 of turfy loam that has laid by and become mellow, and 



