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REMARKS ON FORCING ROSES AND OTHER PLANTS. 
any period ; and when tlie branches are a foot or more in length, let the plant be 
shifted into a large pot, trained round a suitable wire trellis, and removed shortly 
afterwards to the greenhouse, where it will flower finely in the summer and 
autumn, and may be thrown away in winter. It is worth while, nevertheless, to 
try how the species will thrive after being housed for the winter in a greenhouse. 
By the same plan, rather more rapidly pursued in respect to the inuring of the 
plant to a lower temperature, a limited quantity of specimens could be prepared 
for planting against a conservative w^all about the end of May, and they would 
make a brilliant show during one or two of the autumnal months. They might be 
left to perish on the advance of winter. 
The length to which this dissertation on a single plant has been pursued, would 
demand some justification beyond the notoriously magnificent character of that 
species, were not the directions given and the hints offered for the most part quite 
as applicable to a great number of handsome climbers, comprised in the same group, 
and in other genera. 
REMARKS ON FORCING ROSES AND OTHER PLANTS. 
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If it be true that any practical information is of double value when imparted 
just at the time there is an actual demand for it, we may hope that the advantage 
derivable from the seasonableness of this paper will more than counterbalance 
whatever defects may be apparent in its contents. October being the month in 
which roses are usually placed in the forcing frames, and other plants either simi- 
larly treated or prepared for the like stimulation, the directions we are about to 
supply may not be out of place. 
In every garden where proper facilities are procurable, nothing affords a more 
decided source of enjoyment than the possession of a few flowers, both as specimens 
on the plant and for making bouquets, at that period of the year when external 
nature is chilling, dreary, and disconsolate. There are not many, however, who 
succeed in flowering roses well at this season, and still fewer who manage to have 
a general collection of forced flowers throughout the severer months, without 
incurring considerable trouble and expense. In this view of the case, therefore, we 
have another reason for bringing forward the simple statements which follow. 
The point wherein cultivators are most palpably wrong, is the practice of 
forcing plants in a stove or any common house of the ordinary size, heated solely 
by either flues or hot water, and seldom sufficiently moist for plants that are 
required to grow vigorously. We consequently begin by affirming that the most 
appropriate places in which to carry on such a process are small pots and frames, 
where the atmosphere and temperature can be easily and economically kept at any 
requisite degree of heat or moisture. Such receptacles are further suitable because 
