NAT. ORDER. ROSACEA. 
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moisture at the roots of the roses, the gardeners generally mu.ch 
them with half rotten stable dung, or partially rotten leaves. 
Forwarding and Retarding Roses. The earliest flowering Rose is 
the Monthly, which, in mild seasons, and planted against a wall, will 
sometimes flower in the beginning of April. The Roses next in 
succession are the Cinnamon, which flowers in May ; the Damask, 
in the end of May or beginning of June ; the Blush, York and Lan- 
caster, Province and Dutch Hundred-leaved, in June, July and Augr 
ust. The Virginia and Musk Roses are the latest sorts : they flower 
in September, and, in shady situations, will sometimes continue ia 
bloom till the middle of October ; but the earliest Rose (the Monthly) 
is also the latest, and generally continues flowering till interrupted 
by frost. The. earliest sorts may be materially forwarded by being 
planted against a south wall, and, if portable sashes be placed before 
them, and the wall is either flued or heated by fires, the plants may 
be brought to flower in February or March. The Monthly Rose, 
being protected by glass in autumn, or aided by artificial heat, may 
be continued in bloom till Christmas. A very common mode of ob- 
taining late Roses, and one of the greatest antiquity, is by cutting 
all the flower shoots off when the buds begin to appear, or by rub- 
bing off all the rudiments of shoots of every kind, early in the spring : 
a second crop is in consequence produced, which will not be in a 
state to bloom before the autumn. 
Forcing the Rose. The best sorts for this purpose are the Common 
and Moss Province. The Indian sorts force well, or rather in stoves 
continue in bloom all the year ; but the more common varieties, not 
being fragrant, they are in less repute than the European Roses. 
Rose plants should be a year in pots, previous to the autumn when 
it is intended to force them : they should be planted in pots six or 
eight inches in diameter, in rich loam, and placed in an open, airy 
situation, their flower-buds pinched off as they appear, and the 
plants put into a state of rest, by excluding sun and rain, but not a 
free circulation of air. Abercrombie says, " There is no certainty of 
