THE KOSE AND ITS CULTUKE. 



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may be noted. This rough-and-ready mode of 

 forcing Koses in pots results in anticipating the 

 natural Rose season in the open air by a month, sis 

 weeks, or two months, and may be practised by any 

 one possessing a cool pit or a green-house. Though 

 the results are neither so certain nor so perfect, they 

 are well worth the slight efforts made to procui-e 

 them. 



After-treatment of Forced Roses. — "WTnle 

 the plants ai-e in full beauty, they aie sure to re- 

 ceive the attention needful, but so soon as the 

 flowera fade comes the dimger of neglect or inju- 

 rious treatment. The batches of late-flowering 

 Roses — that is, those that bloom after the middle of 

 May — may be placed in a sheltered situation out of 

 doors, and if carefully attended to as regards prun- 

 ing and watering and keeping clean, -nTll be none 

 the worse for their gentle forcing, but aU the better, 

 the forcing one year being an exqellent preparation 

 for their forcing to even better purpose the following 

 one. But forced Roses that bloom in February or 

 March must be kept under glass tUl the 20th of 

 May, when aJl the summer or once a season bloom- 

 ing Roses should be placed out of doors. For the 

 first two or three months they can hardly be put in 

 too warm or sunny quarters to thoroughly ripen the 

 wood : but afterwards, and throughout the autumn, 

 the colder the place that can be found for them the 

 better. These should be pruned in September, and 

 will be ready to start once more for forcing anew 

 in November or December. 



Treatment of Tea and Hybrid Per- 

 petual Roses after Forcing. — The safest 

 method of treatment for these consists in cutting 

 them back rather hard so soon as they have finished 

 flowering (say in February or March), keeping them 

 a little dry at the roots for a week or a fortnight, 

 top-dressing the surface of the pot with fresh soil, 

 turning over and adding some fresh material to the 

 hotbed if needful to augment the bottom heat, and 

 then fostering growth by overhead sprinkling, a 

 humid atmosphere, &c., as before. The result will be 

 a second crop of bloom often better than the first, 

 and produced in much less time, say in April or 

 May. From this point there are two modes of pro- 

 cedirre before the forcer. The process of cutting 

 back and resuscitation may be repeated, and a third 

 crop of Roses gathered from the same plant in 

 July and August. This repetition may answer well 

 where the bloom is more prized than the permanent 

 stability and usefulness of the plant. As a good 

 supply of Roses from the open air may now mostly 

 be depended on from June to the end of the growing 

 season, most forcers of Roses content themselves with 



two crops of bloom off the plants, gathering both be- 

 tween February and the end of ilay, and then place 

 their Roses out of doors from June to October. 

 Here, however, they must be caiefuUy and skilfully 

 treated, the wood that produced the second crop 

 thoroughly ripened by solar heat, and rested by cold 

 and drought, the two latter obtained by withholding 

 water behind a north hedge or wall. Neither must 

 these Roses, full of vitality, and of only semi- 

 suspended growth at their most restful period, be 

 pruned too eaily, or a third growth of bloom would 

 be produced so late (that is, in September) as to 

 render the plants unfit for hard forcing in November 

 or December. 



If, however, not required for early forcing next 

 year, these Roses might be pruned a'gain, and would 

 produce good crops of late autumn and early winter 

 Roses either in the forcing-house, warm conservator}', 

 or sunny window. 



"Well-grown, properly-managed Roses in pots in 

 the open air wUl furnish any amount of the best 

 material for forcing, and thus all the three sets 

 of portable Roses will contribute to work out the 

 most pleasing and profitable of modem Rose problems, 

 that of a constant supply throughout the year. 



Varieties Specially Adapted for Pot- 

 ciolture and Forcing. — In addition to those 

 already named as among the more suitable for open- 

 air culture near or in towns (see page 265), the fol- 

 lowing are the most suitable for general cultmre in 

 pots in the open air, conservatory, or for forcing. 

 For the latter purpose especially fragrance is of 

 the highest importance. 



Among the Teas, Devoniensis, Marechal Niel, 

 Narcisse, Madame WOlermoz, Gloire de Dijon, and 

 Triomphe de GuiUot fils are some of the most 

 fragrant. Almost the only sweet-scented Roses among 

 Bourbons or Noisettes ."ue Madame Isaac Pereire 

 and Madame Desprez. The most fragiunt of the 

 Perpetuals, in addition to those already mentioned, 

 and recommended for growing in towns, are — 



ATI Ti n. X)iesl)ach. 

 Abel Gmnd. 

 Alfred Colomb. 

 MUe. Annie Wood. 

 Baronne Prevost. 

 Beanty of Walthom. 

 Camille Bemardin. 

 Comtessede Mortmart. 

 Centifolia rosea, 

 Comtesse de Cababril- 



lant. 

 Charles Iiefebvre, 

 Duchesse de Caylus. 

 Dacbess of Sutherland. 

 Mons. E. T. Teas. 



Elizabeth Vigneron. 

 Harrison "W"^. 

 Glory of Waltham. 

 Madame Boll. 

 Madame Gabriel Luizet. 

 Madame Pillion. 

 Madame Purtado. 

 Mile. Mai'guerite Dom- 



brain 

 Marie Baumann, 

 Monte Christo. 

 Pierre Netting. 

 Souvenir de Leveson* 



Gower. 



The three so-caUed Cabbage Roses — that is, the 

 common Crested and White Unique, and the common 

 Rose-coloured or Old Moss— are still among the very 



