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

 forcing- Roses in pots results in anticipating the 

 natural Eose season in the open air by a month, six 

 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 efEorts made to procure 

 thom. 



After-treatment of Forced Roses. — Wliile 

 the plants are in full beauty, they are sure to re- 

 ceive the attention needful, but so soon as the 

 flowers fade comes the danger of neglect or inju- 

 rious treatment. The batches of late-flowering 

 Eoses — 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, will be none 

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

 the forcing one year being an excellent preparation 

 for their forcing to even better purpose the following- 

 one. But forced Eoses that bloom in February or 

 March must be kept under glass till the 20th of 

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

 ing- Eoses should be placed out of doors. For the 

 flrst 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- 

 cedure before the forcer. The process of cutting 

 , back and resuscitation may be repeated, and a third 

 crop of Eoses gathered from the same plant in 

 J uly 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 Eoses from the open air may now mostly 

 be depended on from June to the end of the growing- 

 season, most forcers of Eoses content themselves with 



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

 tween l ebruary and the end of May, and then place 

 their Eoses out of doors from June to October. 

 Here, however, they must be carefully and skilfull}- 

 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 Eoses, full of vitality, and of only semi- 

 suspended growth at their most restful period, be 

 pruned too early, 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 Eoses might be pruned again, and would 

 produce good crops of late autumn and early winter 

 Eoses either in the forcing-house, warm conservatory, 

 or sunny window. 



Well-grown, properly -managed Eoses in pots in 

 the open air will furnish any amount of the best 

 material for forcing, and thus all the three sets 

 of portable Eoses will contribute to work out the 

 most pleasing and profitable of modern Eose problems, 

 that of a constant supply throughout the year. 



Varieties Specially Adapted for Pot- 

 culture and Forcing. — In addition to those 

 already named as among the more suitable for open- 

 air culture near or in towns (see i^age 265), the fol- 

 lowing are the most suitable for general cultui-e in. 

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

 For the latter pm-pose especially fragrance is of 

 the highest importance. 



Among the Teas, Devoniensis, Marechal Niel, 

 Narcisse, Madame Willcrmoz, Gloii-e de Dijon, and 

 Triomphe de Guillot fils are some of the most 

 fragrant. Almost the only sweet-scented Eoses among 

 Bourbons or Noisettes are Madame Isaac Pereire 

 and Madame Desprez. The most fragrant of the 

 Perpetuals, in addition to those already mentioned, 

 and recommended for growing in towns, are — 



Elizabeth Yigneron. 

 Hairisou Weir. 

 Glory of Waltham. 

 Madame Boll. 

 Madame Gabriel Luizet. 

 Madame Fillion. 

 Madame Furtado. 

 Mile. Marguerite Dom- 



braiu. 

 Marie Bauinann. 

 Moute Christo. 

 Pierre Notting. 

 Souvenir de Leveson- 

 Gower. 



Anna Diesbacli. 

 Abel Grand. 

 Alfred Colomb. 

 Mile. Annie Wood. 

 Baronne Prevost. 

 Beaiaty of Waltham. 

 Camille Bernardin. 

 Comtessede Mortmart. 

 Centifolia rosea. 

 Comtesse de Chabril- 



lant. 

 Charles Lefebvre, 

 Duchesse de Caylus. 

 Duchess of Sutherland. 

 Mons. E. Y. Teas. 



The three so-called Cabbage Eoses— that is, the 

 common Crested and A^Tiite Unique, and the common 

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



