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POTTING OF ROSES. 
It is the best way to use half of rotted turf and half of rotted da ; 
if it be not too light to let water pass freely, add a little turfy peat, 
broken through a sieve that would pass a hazel nut. Trim the roots, 
to get rid of all bruises; and, in the first instance, choose plants, the 
roots of which are within a moderate compass, for pot culture, and 
are well taken up. Selec• pots that will receive the roots without 
much cramping; carefully put the soil between and among the fibres 
and larger roots; strike the pots on the potting table, and poke the 
soil down so as to be firm. 
If the roses be dwarf, follow the directions about pruning at once, 
and let them be placed in a cold frame, watered, to settle the earth 
about them, and covered up. This should be done in the Southern 
and Middle States from November to February, when those for forc¬ 
ing should be put into the greenhouse, gently increased in tempera¬ 
ture, well watered, and kept growing hard; any buds that show 
should be removed, and they should be allowed to complete their 
growth, and then be plunged in the open ground, and there the wood 
be permitted to ripen. When the leaves have fallen, and the wood is 
fairly ripe, they may be pruned, by removing all the weak shoots, and 
shortening the strong ones; the balls turned out to examine, and if 
matted with roots, pots a size larger be given. They may then be 
placed in a cold frame, plunged to their rims, until the period you 
want to force them. They will flower better the second year than 
they could have flowered the first, and if the blooms are all picked 
off again as fast as they show, instead of being allowed to perfect 
themselves, the growth will be more free; and by growing hard to 
complete it early, and leaving them out again to ripen, they will allow 
of being pruned into a handsome form, being carried into the house 
sooner, and will flower most abundantly, instead of having one or two 
sickly shoots with their miserable half-starved blooms. At the end, 
they will have as many as you please to leave eyes for, pruning them 
the same as you would standards or bushes out of doors, and the 
blooms will come as rich, as handsome, and as well colored as any iu 
the open air. Roses may then be forced at almost any season, only 
they ought to undergo the same forcing a season or two without 
being allowed to flower, that they undergo the season they are to be 
forced into bloom. And this will answer season after season when 
they ar? once well established, for they require only the usual shifts 
