CHAPTER VI 

 Roses for Cut Flowers Under Glass 



Its importance — The style of house — Even span and 

 three-quarter span — Iron and wood frame — The cost 

 — Benches or solid beds — The benches — Soil and 

 manures — How to compost — Soil preferences — Filling 

 the benches — Cleaning the benches — Lime and sul- 

 phur wash — Planting — Watering- — Cultivation — Im- 

 portance of ventilation — Avoid changes of tempera- 

 ture — To prevent mildew — How to use sulphur — The 

 cutical autumn period — The early firing — Tempera- 

 ture — A combination of factors — Time from planting 

 to flowers — Prune when cutting — Blind wood not of 

 importance — Kinds that will grow together — Roses 

 with carnations — Manuring and mulching — Manage- 

 ment in spring — Professor Stuart's formula — Quan- 

 tities of fertilisers to use — Carrying over — Treatment 

 of new plants — Why buy from a dealer — Propagation — 

 Select flowering wood — How to make a cutting — The 

 sand for propagating — Soil for young plants — After 

 the cuttings strike — Shifting into larger pots — Sum- 

 mer plunging — Spring care — Flowering Tea Roses in 

 pots — Hybrid Perpetuals in pots — All about growing 

 American Beauty. 



The art of growing roses under glass has 

 been brought to its highest perfection in 



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