io ROSES IN POTS. 



which some varieties are more than others as soon as 

 the first spots are seen. 



About the middle of March the flower buds will show 

 colour, syringing should then cease, and a liberal supply of 

 water be given. Should worms work into the pots they 

 may be occasionally watered with lime-water, and if large 

 flowers be sought after in preference to number, the small 

 backward flower buds should be removed. A few plants 

 may now be carried to a colder house, which will give the 

 remaining ones more room, and by selecting them of 

 different degrees of forwardness a continual supply of 

 flowers may be obtained ; and further, the temperature 

 being diminished, the flower buds will have more time to 

 expand, and produce larger flowers approaching nearer to 

 their natural colours. It is the custom with some, as soon 

 as the buds show colour, gradually to lower the tempera- 

 ture of the house; by this method a greater display may be 

 obtained at one time, but the succession of flowers is lost, 

 and the whole retarded. When the flowers begin to 

 expand it will be found necessary to form a light shading 

 to screen them from the mid-day sun, and at this season a 

 thin canvas will be found sufficient. But to see Roses in 

 perfection in the forcing house, we should visit them at the 

 same time as we would Roses in the open air with the 

 rising sun. just as the buds are unfolding, and while they 

 are wet with the dews of morn. 



Thus have we arrived at the season when the flowers 

 appear, which by their beauty and fragrance redouble the 

 pleasure we have enjoyed during their progress. Among 

 forcing Roses of the classes Hybrid Perpetual and Tea- 

 scented, I know not which may claim the precedence. 

 The former beautiful class has the claim of novelty, and 

 has recently improved and increased at such a rapid rate 

 as to threaten the exclusion of many of the Damask 

 Perpetuals. The flowers are for the most part large and 

 double, but there is a similarity in appearance, the flowers 

 being chiefly purple or crimson. They possess the frag- 



