88 GARDEN AND FARM TOPICS. 



Syringing i^ done once a day to keep down red spider, 

 and fumigating by burning tobacco stems to kill the Aphis 

 or Green Fly must be done twice a week. With such 

 attention, plants which ware put in as cuttings at the 

 season named above, by the middle of July will be from 

 one and a half to two feet in height,- with roots enough 

 to fill a six-inch pot. They should at this date, or before, 

 be placed out of doors, and stood on rough gravel or 

 cinders, so as to make certain of free drainage. 



Now, if intended to be grown in pots, the shifting into 

 larger pots should be repeated whenever the ball gets 

 filled with roots, (which is usually in about five or six 

 weeks after every shift,) until the ist of October, when 

 they will have reached a size requiring a pot of eight or 

 nine inches in diameter. These pots should be amply 

 drained with broken pots or charcoal, using soil com- 

 posed of three parts decomposed sod from a good loamy 

 soil to one of well-rotted cow manure, or the soil here- 

 after advised for benches will do equally well. They are 

 then in condition for winter forcing, no further shifting 

 being required. But if they are to be planted out on 

 benches, or in solid best of soil, the planting should be 

 made from the pots from the i5th of July to the i5th of 

 August. 



SOLID BEDS AND RAISED BENCHES. 



There is quite a difference of opinion as to whether 

 Roses can be best grown in solid beds or on raised 

 benches. We believe that it really makes but little 

 difference, as we find them grown with nearly equal 

 success by both methods where drainage is perfect, 

 although the method mainly in use at Madison, N. J., 

 where, at present writing, Roses are probably grown 



