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ON BUDDING ROSES. 
We generally make a point of saving one, or for fear of accident 
two plants through the winter. Towards the end of November we 
cut them down close to the pots, afterwards place them on any hack 
shelf in the stove, or in fact any place where they can be kept dry, 
and free from frost. There we let them remain until the first week 
in March, at which period we again put them in the stove, and sup¬ 
ply them with water. In a short time their hop looking shoots will 
make their appearance, and when they are sufficiently long to make 
cuttings, (two, three, or more joints,) we take off as many as are wan¬ 
ted, and pot them in light rich loam mixed with coarse sand, and 
place them in a cucumber, or melon frame. In a fortnight or a little 
longer they will he ready to pot off. One plant in a pot is sufficient. 
The compost in which we grow them, is a moderately strong loam 
to which we add a little rotten dung and leaf mould, the coarser the 
loam the better. It is scarcely necessary to say any thing respectng 
the size of the pots in which we grow them; 24’s are the size which 
we make choice of for the first potting, and when they are filled with 
roots, we shift them into a large succession pine pot, in which they 
remain till they have done flowering. The old plants are now done 
with. Plants raised from cuttings every year, flower so much more 
freely than old plants, indeed I have kept an old plant for three years 
without its showing a flower at all. If you think what I have stated, 
will not he too great an encroachment on your valuable pages, you 
will oblige me by giving it publicity, and at a future period I may 
again venture to trouble you with further remarks respecting the 
management of plants, &c. As the object of your Register is the 
furtherance of Horticulture, a pursuit of which I am particularly 
fond, and by which I get my living, as a Subscriber I shall be 
proud to contribute as far as my humble abilities will allow. 
George Keay. 
N. B. The Thunbergia grandiflora treated in the manner I have 
recommended, will commence flowering about the end of May, and 
continue until the end of November. 
ARTICLE X.—ON BUDDING ROSES. 
BY MR. JAMES BEOWM, JUN. 
Having seen the common China rose (Rosaindiea) flowering in the 
greatest luxuriance most part of the year, when trained against trel¬ 
lis or other objects, 1 have often felt surprised that buds of many of 
