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in November; if they have strong shoots, they may be tied or 
fastened up to nearly their full length ; if not with long and strong 
shoots, they may be cut down to within five inches of their bases ; 
they will in the following season make shoots from ten to twelve 
or fifteen feet in length. The first shoots that will be fit to bud 
will be the old shoots that were left at full length when they were 
planted ; these may be budded in June, and the young shoots that are 
made during the whole of the summer may be budded weekly till the 
end of September ; the position of each bud must be thought of, so as 
to make a picture really artistic and beautiful. As soon as a bud is 
inserted, or if two or three buds are placed in the same shoot, the end 
of the shoot must be cut off to within two buds of the topmost inserted 
bud ; the buds may be untied about three weeks after insertion, and 
all the young shoots that break out below the inserted buds must be 
rubbed off; this is all that need be done the first season. The next 
season the buds will bloom abundantly, and it will only be necessary 
to destroy all the young shoots that break out of the budded branch 
below the buds; those shoots that break out above the inserted buds 
may be pinched in frequently, the budded branch will not then become 
rigid and starved like the stem of a standard rose. 
In decorating climbing roses the buds should be dotted over tiie 
whole surface of the plant, two or three buds in one branch will be 
found enough, and care must be taken not to bud every branch of the 
climbing rose; some must be left to grow in their natural, graceful, 
vigorous manner, so that the decorated wall or walk has not a stumpy 
appearance like an avenue of standard roses. 
Evergreen roses, trained to tall pillars or suffered to hang in festoons, 
are capable of most fanciful decoration, as buds of choice kinds may 
be inserted at different points of view so as to have a charming effect. 
FLORAL COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
As the Committee has now bid a long farewell to the dear, dirty, dingy 
room in which its deliberations have been hitherto held, the opportunity 
seems a good one to say a few words as to its constitution and method of 
conducting its proceedings, while giving a short account of its last meeting 
in St. Martin’s Place on Oecember 13. Imagine yourselves, then, in the 
most unfavourable spot for horticultural deliberations, in the very heart 
of bustling London, ov^erlooking Charing Cross and its everflowing tide 
of human life—its ’busses, cabs, &c.—and in a room some 16 or 18 
feet long by about 14 wide, in the centre a large green table, and 
around, in about as good order as confined space will permit, on tables, 
bookshelves, and boards, are arranged the various objects which have 
been sent in for the opinion of the Committee. Seated at the table 
may, be, on ordinary meeting days, some twelve or fourteen members, 
representing every branch of the floricultural world—nurserymen, 
whose estimate of a flower is perhaps rather more commercial than 
otherwise—gentlemen, whose eyes are ever keen for novelties, and who 
