8 ROSES IN POTS. 



One thing is important never allow them to collect their 

 forces. 



Great attention should be paid to watering ; and 

 though plunged, the plants will require through the sum- 

 mer months a liberal supply. When they are coming into 

 bloom, such varieties as are of a drooping habit will 

 require the adjustment of a neat stick ; we should not, 

 however, be too lavish with these supports, or they render 

 the plants stiff and unsightly. A light shading should 

 now be formed to protect them from the sun's rays during 

 the middle of the day ; this should be constructed to draw 

 up, that the plants may have the advantage of the dews 

 so beneficial to Roses at this season of the year. Here 

 they may remain till the middle of September, when they 

 should be taken up, turned out of the pots, a good portion 

 of the soil taken away, and fresh soil supplied, and such as 

 require it shifted into larger pots. 



Roses required for forcing, in as far as regards soil, 

 time of removal, and potting, may be treated in the same 

 manner as those intended to be grown in pots in the open 

 air. They should be pruned early in November, and it is 

 well if they can be allowed to make their growth, and 

 bloom out of doors the first season after removal. That 

 plants taken out of the ground and potted early in 

 Autumn will bear forcing and bloom tolerably well the 

 succeeding spring, we know from experience, but it is also 

 evident that, having been a year in pots, they become 

 better established, produce a greater quantity of flowers, 

 and form more compact plants. The first week in Janu- 

 ary is a very good time for conveying the plants into the 

 forcing house, commencing with a gentle heat, say 40 to 

 50. Very soon the buds will become excited, when the 

 temperature may be gradually raised to about 50 at night, 

 and 60 to 75 during the day, and the plants lightly 

 syringed mornings and evenings. Great care is required in 

 the admission of air. During January and February, and 

 in most seasons March, very little air should be admitted, 



