ROSES IN POTS. 



garden, and plunged in the ground up to the rims of the 

 pots from one to two feet apart, according to the size or 

 habit of the plant. It is well with regard to Roses grown 

 in pots that they be always kept plunged. To obviate the 

 disadvantages following the plunging of plants in pots, 

 namely, their liability to root through into the ground, and 

 the facility afforded for worms to work into the pots, I 

 have the soil taken out of a sufficient depth, and a seed- 

 pan with the hole enlarged placed at the bottom in an 

 inverted position, upon which the pot is placed. It answers 

 perfectly, and further secures an effectual drainage. After 

 the plants are plunged the pots should be covered over 

 with stable dung, to protect the roots at the top from frost 

 in winter, and to keep the surface of the soil moist through 

 the summer. About March the tender varieties may be 

 brought from their winter quarters and treated in like 

 manner, and such as were left for late pruning be pruned. 

 Where the buds push out very numerously, the strongest 

 and those which have a tendency to grow outwards should 

 be selected to remain for flower, and the weak ones 

 rubbed off. The plants should be frequently looked over 

 for the purpose of destroying the grub, which will other- 

 wise eat into the buds and spoil the bloom. From worked 

 plants all suckers or wild shoots should be cut out as soon 

 as they appear, and in some instances the backward or side 

 flower-buds be nipped off. 



As soon as the warm weather appears it will be well 

 to look after that tiresome pest, the Aphis or Green-fly. 

 In looking round, you will see one or two tiny ones walk- 

 ing about your plants ; you may think they are of no 

 consequence, but rest assured, then is the time to attack 

 your enemy, for they are then meditating where to provide 

 for millions of their race. Wash the ends of the shoots or 

 syringe them with tobacco water. I have also found 

 equal parts of Scotch snuff and sulphur vivum very effec- 

 tual in destroying them, put on with a barber's puff, or put 

 into a shallow pan and the ends of the shoots dipped in. 



