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FORCING ROSES. 
is also necessary, though the flowers will wear a richer appearance 
if partially shaded. Throughout this stage the plants will still 
be subject to attacks from green-flies, but a single fumigation 
will remove them, or they may be kept down by frequent appli¬ 
cation of the vapours of ammonia or common smelling salts. 
The decline of the flowers marks another era in the management 
of the plants, instead of being thrust into a back shed or other 
out-of-the-way place, as is too frequently the practice of those 
who forget or are not aware that these plants may be again 
forced, and will make the best specimens that can be procured 
for the purpose; they should be stationed in a good pit or the 
front of the greenhouse, where they may have light and warmth 
enough to continue them in a growing state, some help being 
given them at the same time in the way of liquid manure, so as 
to induce a strong and healthy development of branches. By 
continuing them in such a position till May, no check to their 
progress begun in the forcing-house will be experienced, and 
when the weather will permit their removal to the open air, it 
will be well to set them at the foot of a south wall, and keep 
them rather dry for a fortnight, that the new shoots may become 
perfectly ripe ; after which, as the whole summer is before them, 
and also as it will be useless to attempt keeping them dormant 
for so long a period, they had better be repotted, pruned rather 
closely back, and set growing again. Thus by a little attention 
in the early part of the season, an extra growth is entirely gained, 
and, as a matter of course, the number of flowers greatly increased 
on each plant in the next year’s forcing, while the neglect with 
which they are too often treated after blooming, results in the 
loss of great part of the stock. 
That the plants are worth the extra trouble recommended, will 
be unequivocally evidenced in the first trial; in fact, the indi¬ 
viduals so treated will be found to force with much greater 
freedom than attaches to others fresh from the borders, owing 
to the predisposition to grow at the particular time induced by 
the previous forcing, and this character will grow upon them so 
strongly by the force of habit, that, like the grape-vine, after a 
few years’ forcing, they will break into a new growth in winter 
even in the open air. To meet the extra demands of this double 
action, it is necessary to treat them liberally with manures, to 
