^48 Oil the Culture of t] LB Rose. 
which, it' not picked off, will eventually destroy the bloom, if not the 
plant itself. 
The sorts of Roses most to be recommended for forcing, are the 
Red Provence, Moss Provence, and White Provence, for the first 
crops ; and for later flowering, the Tuscany, Damask, and Maiden's- 
blush. Let strong suckers, or layers, of these, be carefully taken up 
about the beginning of November, and planted in pots of about five 
inches diameter, inside measure, (upright forty-eights;) let the lower 
part of the plant be inserted rather deeper than it before grew. For 
this purpose it will be necessary to twist it round the pot two or three 
times, then fill the pot with a compost of vegetable mould and good 
light loam ; prune the tops so as not to leave above two or three buds 
above the soil, then plunge the pots up to the rim, in an open, a!ry 
situation. Let them be shifted into larger pots every year, till they 
are large enough to place in 24- sized pots. The year after the plants 
are potted, inti'oduce a quantity into the stove, and place them in a 
situation where they receive about the heat of eighty degrees by day, 
and sixty by night; let every one of them be marked, as they must be 
placed first into the house every year, and so on mththe rest in suc- 
cession. The times proper to take them in, are (if the flo\\'ers are 
wanted about Christmas,) sometime early in October, the second 
crop in November, which ^^^ll bloom in February, and so on every 
month, until the natural season of fiowering in the open air. Be care- 
ful to smoke the house every month to destroy the Aphidee, and pick off 
all grubs, or your crop of flowers will fail. After they haxe done flow- 
ering, allow them to remain either in a frame or greenhouse for two or 
three months, until their wood is a little matured, for if they are too 
suddenly exposed to the open air while the wood is tender, (a method 
])ractised by many persons,) they receive so severe a check, that they 
seldom or ever mature their buds, so as to flower well the succeeding 
season. While they are making their wood, give them a good supply 
of water, mixed with a little dung of either deer, sheep, fowls, or pi- 
geons ; this will replenish the soil, and greatly assist the plant. When 
they have partly done gro\\'ing turn them out of doors, placing them in a 
sheltered situation. Prune, pot, and introduce them into the house 
again in rotation, at the proper season, and for every hours extra 
trouble they may have occasioned, you will be amply repaid by a most 
plentiful blow of fine flowers, and these at almost any season you niay 
think fit. 
T am, Gentleme)], 
Yours, See. 
October 20th, 1831. RfsTicns. 
