FORCING LATER ROSES. 43 



well, as before ; removing altogether such of the present year's shoots 

 as are at aU weakly, and shortening all the best to two or three eyes. 

 Let them now be taken to the greenhouse, or conservatory, or a 

 grapery, or all in turn ;' but gradually increase the temperature, till, by 

 the end of October, they may go into the forcing house, beginning at 

 the temperature the house was that they came from, say fifty to fifty- 

 five, and continuing it till they are fairly growing ; then increasing it 

 to sixty, and eventually to sixty-five ; rubbing off, as before, all useless 

 shoots, and giving plenty of air, when it can be done without lowering 

 the temperature. At the least appearance of the green fly, syringe with 

 plain -wsater ; fumigate at night, for too strong a smoke would all but 

 destroy the plants and incipient blooms. In this way, you will be clear 

 of the pest without damage, and your reward will be a fine show of 

 blooms on every rose tree ;' strong growth, healthy fohage, handsome 

 plants, and all that can be desired. 



Forcing Later E,oses. 



The principle on which the early forcing is conducted must be carried 

 out in fuU, not only in potting the plants then pruning, but also in the 

 period of removing them. If you wish those a month later to succeed 

 the first, put them into the house a month later, each of the years. 

 If you want others to succeed these second, put them into the house 

 a month later still each year. For nothing has been shown yet in the 

 way of pot roses, better than were shown several years ago, and all of 

 them have had a weakly drawn appearance, and have been anything 

 but creditable to the taste of the gardeners; for they have been staked 

 all over, and thin, flimsy roses on hmp-lankey stems, bound up to a 

 thicket of unnatural wood. Now, by the plan we have been recom- 

 mending, the plant is longer growing, stronger in its wood, shorter in 

 its joints, and more abundant in branches, fohage, and flowers. The 

 ordinary mode of forcing contemplates no more than removing a plant 

 from out of doors to in-doors in one year ; so that, without having the 

 advantage of premature ripeness for two seasons, or even one, it has 

 to perfect its flowers before their time, by great excitement, with a 

 root hardly established. We hold that a Rose, Hke a grape vine, can- 

 not, after bearing in the usual season, be changed all at once to early 

 forcing, without great sacrifice of crop, strength, or beauty. Tho 



