PROPAGATION OF THE ROSE. 
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sun; but they were allowed to be quite open on mild cloudy days 
and had warm showers of rain at all opportunities. Here it was 
found necessary to fumigate them several times to get rid of the 
aphides, which partially appeared five or six times during the season, 
but were speedily cleared away. The lights were taken off towards 
autumn, and the young plants looked as well as could be wished. 
At the period when frosts were expected, they were removed care¬ 
fully with all their roots, into a bed made of the same compost, and a 
foot deep; planted a foot apart every way, and the bed being four feet 
wide, took four across it, the outer ones being six inches from the 
edge of the bed. The same precaution was taken with mats and 
hoops to keep off heavy falls of snow or hard frosts, and they were 
allowed to push as much as they would, without pruning, all the next 
season, no other pains being taken than to throw the mat over when 
the sun was distressingly hot, and to water them freely on dry parch¬ 
ing weather, every night. At the autumn, they were replanted, all 
the weak shoots being cut out, but the strong ones not shortened till 
spring. Though there was a manifest improvement in the flowers 
each season, it was four or five before anything like the quality of 
some present roses was approached. 
This practice differs, in some respects, from that of some other 
nurserymen; we have seen healthy seedlings, since all these pains 
were taken, where the seeds were sown out of doors in a common 
bed, raked in like so many onions; came up like so many weeds; 
grew well and stood the weather without even a shelter from hard 
frosts. Some may have been killed and not missed, but they did as 
well, to all appearance, as those more tenderly nursed. 
Hastening the Flowering of Seedlings. 
When the seedlings come up in May or June, keep them well moist¬ 
ened, but not too wet, until you can get hold of them well to pot off. 
Put one each into small pots, and let them, as soon as they are estab¬ 
lished, be placed in the shade out of doors; but the greatest care must 
be taken to prevent the attack of the fly, or vermin of any kind. 
They must be looked at almost daily, and upon the least appearance 
of any insects, you must remove the plants under cover, where you 
can fumigate and syringe them regularly. It is still better, if you have 
