THE CULTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF ROSES. 
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blighted in its incipient state. If a decided 
change like this is universally fatal, which is 
the fact, every sudden change, and all ap- 
proaches to it, is proportionally mischievous. 
We do not, however, mean to say that Roses 
cannot be forced in a single season, because 
thousands are so forced and sent to mar- 
ket; and the usual result of such management 
is, three or four long drawn branches, with a 
bud or two at the end of one, and sometimes 
of two, with scarcely strength to open into a 
flower. We make exceptions to, the choice 
kinds of Roses, in these remarks, and allude 
only to garden Roses. The China kinds are 
of a different nature, always growing and 
The Village Maid. 
blooming ; winter and summer, if they are 
kept in a moderate temperature, are almost 
alike to them, and those which partake of their 
habit. 
THE FORCING OP KOSES OF THE DWARF CHINA 
KIND. 
This family has scarcely any rest in pots, 
and under protection, it may have merely to 
be kept over the winter. There is no place 
so well adapted for them as a cold pit, with a 
good dry bottom, and shelves near the glass ; 
but a stout shallow box, with a regular garden 
light on it, placed high and dry on a paved, 
slated, or warm, gravelled bottom, makes a 
good shift. The China-rose, and all the short- 
jointed, smooth-barked kinds that are like 
them in habit, will strike, bud, graft, grow 
and bloom, any month in the year. The only 
thing necessary, is to have plants in all stages, 
and there will never be any want of flowers. 
In the greenhouse they continue growing on, 
and blooming at all times; but they cannot be 
kept too cool generally, and if abundance of 
flower is required on a plant, it must have a 
previous rest, and shift to a warm tempera- 
ture, and if matted in the roots, a large pot, 
and the heat gradually increased until it will 
bear that of a moderate stove. All the new 
young growth will flower about the same time, 
or at least sufficient of it to well decorate 
the plant. Cuttings may be struck in the 
spring, planted out in beds, six inches apart, to 
grow a little; the tops be pinched off, and the 
buds taken away all the summer, to make them 
bushy ; and they may be potted up into forty- 
eight sized pots, half loam, a fourth peat, and 
a fourth cow dung ; trimmed a little into shape, 
and placed in the shade a while. In September 
they may be put into their frames, covered up 
at night against frosts, and opened in mild 
weather, until the middle of November ; they 
may then be removed, a few at a time, into an 
increased temperature, and about a month 
apart. They will be found to bloom well, and 
succeed each other admirably, all through the 
winter and spring, before those out of doors 
can even fairly start into leaf ; the only care 
required being to syringe them against the 
green fly, and if that does not keep them under, 
fumigate them; and to see that they never 
suffer from want of water. These, however, 
like the summer Roses, will force better the 
second year than the first, by shafting them 
into pots a size larger, trimming the plants 
into a proper shape, taking away the weak 
shoots, letting them rest, and giving but 
little water towards the end of the summer, 
except to keep them from actually flagging; 
putting them in their frames and removing 
them into heat as before, a few at a time," and a 
month apart. Mr. Rivers describes a pit for 
forcing Roses, and we will give the substance 
of his plan. It is simple, and if you build on 
purpose, you may as well build right as wrong ; 
but those who have houses and pits already 
built, will find the Rose not a very dainty in- 
habitant. We have seen some thousands of 
them, beautiful plants, at Gaines's, at Batter- 
sea, healthy and handsome as they could be, 
in a very commonly constructed house, that 
would do well for anything else. All the Rose 
wants is the proper degree of temperature : 
begin say at forty-five, and increase by degrees 
to sixty, and there will be nothing very wrong. 
Mr. Rivers, in describing his pit for forcing 
Roses, says, " A pit ten or twelve feet long, 
and eight feet wide, just high enough to stand 
upright in, with a door atone end, and a sunken 
path in the centre, a raised bed on each side 
of the path, and an eighteen inch Arnott's 
stove at the further end opposite the door, 
with a pipe leading into a small brick chimney 
