310 FORCING DIFFERENT VARIETIES 



made for the purpose, and neatly painted on the 

 outside, with holes at the bottom, according to 

 their size, to carry off the water, and filled with 

 such soil as is suited to the sorts intended to be 

 grown therein. 



Amongst the numerous varieties which may 

 be brought into early bloom in forcing houses, 

 may be introduced occasionally many kinds of 

 greenhouse plants, also roses, including moss, 

 white Provence, (mark, I mean by white Provence 

 the old rose unique, or Grimwood's white Pro- 

 vence, the wood of which is of a short, stumpy 

 growth, on which the bloom comes amazingly 

 strong, large, and double, and when expanded, 

 of a beautiful white. I have named this, as it is 

 not generally known, even among florists, that 

 there is another sold under this name, which is a 

 very free grower, equal to the old cabbage rose, 

 but the bloom is by no means equal to the 

 original white Provence). — Rose de Meux, Pom- 

 pone, red and scarlet Provence, blush and 

 crimson china, &c. Likewise pinks, piccotees, 

 carnations, hyacinths, jonquils, dwarf tulips, 



