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MONTHLY LOSES. 
its they are well adapted to flower at almost any 
season of the year, if they are properly managed. 
Where monthly roses are cultivated, either in green¬ 
houses or rooms, in the ordinary way, they grow and 
rest alternately, according to their situation ; for al¬ 
though they are easily excited to grow and flower, 
they require at some part of the year, a season of rest, 
to regain their strength and vigor. They require a 
somewhat different treatment, as they are wished to 
flower in summer or winter. 
This class of roses is usually grown in pots for the 
convenienee of placing them where they are wanted 
to flower, and of taking them into the house for pro¬ 
tection in winter. Their cultivation for winter flow¬ 
ering may be as follows: Pot them in a compost of 
good garden loam, with about one-third of decayed 
manure, and to prevent its hardening in the pots, 
some sand may be added with a portion of black soil 
Drain the pots with broken pot or gravel, place a 
little soil over the drainage, and set in the plants, 
spreading their roots a little, and fill up the pot with 
the compost, pressing it gently down, and giving a 
little water to settle the soil. The roses that are 
intended for flowering the next winter, should be 
repotted in May, and the pots plunged in the ground 
up to their rims, in a northern aspect, not under the 
shade of any large trees. If the plants are small, nip 
off the flower buds that appear during summer, in 
dry weather, and give them a watering occasionally, 
and they will have grown to good sized bushes by 
the fall. In August, take the pots out of their holes, 
and examine their roots, to see if any have grown out 
