On retarding the bloomivcj season of Roses. 15 
a? appears by their published transactions, awarded premiums for that 
purpose, amounting to up\rards of i' 12000. But the phmtations ha- 
ving- been made, (if we may judge from the present appearance of the 
majority of them, as \',-ell as fi-om the puljlished reports in some of the 
county suiTeys) Httle was done to^iards the attainment of the end con- 
templated in a\varding the premiums: — and Ireland, ^^ith her five 
millions acres of A\-aste land, three-fourths of which is adapted to the 
gi'owth of tunber, and her }>opulation perishing for want of emplo)^- 
ment, presents a picture of bleak desolation, not elsewhere to be 
witnessed. 
In my next, I shall endeavour to point out the advantages to be 
derived from plantations judiciously managed; and as my name could 
not attach any additional importance to these remarks, I shall take 
leave, to sign myself. 
With great I'espect, 
May 27th, 1831, " QrKRors. 
Note. — The above, is one of a series of Articles on Arboriculture, that will be 
continued by the same writer, who has an extensive acquaintance with this subject, 
and has more fuciiities than most persons, of knowing- aud seeing- the ditierent sys- 
tems of manag^ing- woods. We hope they will be particularly attended to, as the 
subject is of national importance. 
COKD. 
Article V. — On retarding the blooming season of the corn- 
mon French and English Roses. By Mr. J. Hayward. 
The nobility and gentry who remain from their country seats till late in 
the summer, are generally prevented from seeing this class of flowering 
shrubs, in perfection, but the following practice causing them to blow 
three or four weeks later than when grown in the usual manner, well 
merits attention from those persons who are desirous of having Roses to 
bloom as late as August and September. 
The border in which the shrubs are planted, is manured with well- 
rotted cow-dung, about the first week in February. The shrubs are not 
pruned during the autumn or the early part of the winter, but remain 
tmtouched till the buds have pushed, some of them half an inch long ; 
the shoots are then shortened below where the buds have pushed. The 
shortening the shoots so late in the spring, does not in the least weaken 
the shrubs, they blossom as vigorously and as freely as in the usual mode 
of treatment. 
When desirable to have the blooming season prolonged, a portion 
of the Roses cut, as is here described, while the remainder are treated 
in the usual way, will produce the desired end. 
.¥a?/2l5?, 1P31. J. Hayward. 
