<4 THE FORCING OF ROSES. 



fact of sudden excitement being fatal to a Rose is demonstra /ed easlry 

 enough by the result; take a stong plant, well established, from the 

 cold atmosphere and temperature of the ground, into a full-heated 

 house, and every bloom will be blighted in its incipient state. If a 

 decided change like this is universally fatal, which is the fact every 

 sudden change, and all approaches to it, are proportionally mischiev- 

 ous. We do not, however, mean to say that roses cannot be forced 

 in a single season, because thousands are so forced and sent to market ; 

 and the usual result of such management is, three or four long-drawn 

 branches, with a bud or two at the end of one, and sometimes of two, 

 with scarcely strength to open into a flower. There are exceptions 

 to the choice kinds of roses ; in these remarks, we allude only to gar- 

 den roses. The China kinds are of a different nature, always growing 

 and blooming; winter and summer, if they are kept in a moderate 

 temperature, are almost alike to them, and those which partake of 

 their habit. 



The Forcing of Rose 3-7- the D-warf China Kinds. 



This family has scarcely any rest in pots, and under protection, it 

 may be merely kept over the winter. There is no place so well 

 adapted for them as a cold pit. with a good dry bottom, and shelves 

 near the glass ; but a stout shallow box, with a regular garden light 

 on it, placed high and dry on a paved, slated, or warm, gravelled bot- 

 tom, makes a good shift. 



The China Rose, and all the short-jointed, smooth-barked kinds that 

 are like them in habit, will strike, bud, graft, grow, and bloom any 

 month in the year. The only thing necessary, is to have plants m all 

 stages, and there will never be any want of flowers. In the green- 

 house, they continue growing on, and blooming at all times ; but they 

 cannot be kept too cool generally, and if abundance of flower? are 

 required on a plant, it must have a previous rest, and be shifted to a 

 warm temperature, and if matted in the roots, a lagre pot, and the Iteat 

 gradually increased until it will bear that of a moderate stove. All 

 the new growth will flower about the same time, or at least; suffi- 

 cient of it to well decorate the plant. Cuttings may be st uck in the 

 spring, planted out in beds six inches apart, to grow a little ; the topg 

 may be pinched off, and the buds taken away all the summer, to make 

 them bushy ; and tfcey may be potted up with a compost of halfkmn, 



