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THE FORCING OF ROSES. 
fact of sudden excitement being fatal to a Rose is demonstra /ed easily 
enough by the result; take a stong plant, well established, from the 
cold atmosphere and temperature of the ground, into a full-heated 
house, and every bloom will be blighted in its incipient state. If a 
decided change like this is universally fatal, which is the fact, every 
sudden change, and all approaches to it, are proportionally mischiev¬ 
ous. We do not, however, mean to say that roses cannot be forced 
in a single season, because thousands are so forced and sent to market; 
and the usual result of such management is, three or four long-drawn 
branches, with a bud or two at the end of one, and sometimes of two, 
with scarcely strength to open into a flower. There are exceptions 
to the choice kinds of roses; in these remarks, we allude only to gar¬ 
den roses. The China kinds are of a different nature, always growing 
and blooming; winter and summer, if they are kept in a moderate 
temperature, are almost alike to them, and those which partake of 
their habit. 
The Forcing of Roses—the Dwarf China Kinds. 
This family has scarcely any rest in pots, and under protection, it 
may be merely kept over the winter. There is no place so well 
adapted for them as a cold pit, with a good dry bottom, and shelves 
near the glass; but a stout shallow box, with a regular garden light 
on it, placed high and dry on a paved, slated, or warm, gravelled bot¬ 
tom, makes a good shift. 
The China Rose, and all the short-jointed, smooth-barked kinds that 
are like them in habit, will strike, bud, graft, grow, and bloom any 
month in the year. The only thing necessary, is to have plants m all 
stages, and there will never be any want of flowers. In the green¬ 
house, they continue growing on, and blooming at all times; but they 
cannot be kept too cool generally, and if abundance of flowers are 
required on a plant, it must have a previous rest, and be shifted to a 
warm temperature, and if matted in the roots, a lagre pot, and the heat 
gradually increased until it will bear that of a moderate stove. All 
the new growth will flower about the same time, or at least suffi¬ 
cient of it to well decorate the plant. Cuttings may be st uck in the 
spring, planted out in beds six inches apart, to grow a little; the tops 
may be pinched off, and the buds taken away all the summer, to make 
them bushy; and they may be potted up with a compost of half loe.ui, 
