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ROSES AND ROSE-CULTURE.-CHAPTER XIX. 
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ALPINE AUEICULAS. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
^ ^EW of our popular flowers have, during the last few years, made greater 
strides towards perfection than the Alpine Auriculas, of which wonderfully 
fine groups have been staged each succeeding spring by Mr. Turner, of 
Slough. It is to this well-known successful grower of florists’ flowers 
that we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring two of the most distinct 
and attractive of these alpine forms, both of which were awarded First-class 
Certificates by the Eoyal Horticultural Society in May last. 
The variety named Napoleon III. (fig. 1) is remarkable for its dark crimson- 
maroon ground-colour, and clear, smooth, golden paste; it is a richly-coloured 
and highly attractive variety, of extra fine quality. Susie Mathams (fig. 2) is 
quite distinct, and is also a very pleasing flower; the ground-colour is a deep 
purple, shaded off at the edges to bright lilac, and the paste is smooth and 
straw-coloured. Though not considered equal in value to the show Auriculas, 
these Alpine varieties are exceedingly pretty objects, and most desirable as 
decorative plants from their well-marked colours.—T. Moore. 
KOSES AND EOSE-CULTUEE. 
Chapter XIX.— Monthly Calendar. 
ANUAEY.—Graft new and other Boses in heat under glass. Clean dead and 
decaying leaves off pot-Eoses under glass, cleaning and loosening the surface 
of the soil at the same time. Place roses in a house, with gentle heat, to 
obtain flowers in March. Prune pot-Eoses under glass to flower in May and 
June. Finish up any arrears of autumn work during this and the following 
two months, as the weather and state of the ground may allow. 
February. —Tie-up pruned pot-Eoses. View, smell, and gather (if you wish) 
the early forced flowers, which should now be in bloom. Continue grafting pot- 
Eoses under glass, if a further supply is wanted. Place a fresh supply of pot-Eoses 
in heat to flower in April. Cut wild shoots off Eose-stocks budded last autumn. 
March.— Continue tying-out pot-Eoses, after having pruned for the summer 
flowering. Prune all unpruned Eoses in pots. Cuttings may be taken from 
forced Eoses, and placed four or six round a five-inch pot, rooting them in a 
frame or house with bottom-heat. If any Eoses have been layered, take off the 
layers now and replant them, watering them in dry weather throughout the 
spring and summer. The soil around cuttings planted in the open ground in 
autumn should be trodden and hoed. Finish transplanting and pruning this 
month ; newly-transplanted Eoses are, in my judgment, better left unpruned till 
now. As a general rule, in pruning, thin-out in November, and shorten the 
shoots left on early in March. 
April. —As the sun gains power, Eoses in pots will require a more liberal 
supply of water ; clear and weak liquid manure is best, and the quantity should 
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