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water is required nearly every day, varied about twice a week 
with liquid manure ; and it is equally necessary that they be 
gone over at the same time and examined carefully, in order to 
prevent the ravages of the grubs, which secret themselves in 
the young leaves and buds, and, if not removed speedily, destroy 
the whole crop of flowers ; nor is there any effective remedy for 
this besides picking them off by hand, which must be continued, 
without omission, while there is a bud upon the plants. 
The beauty of the blooming period will be greatly heightened 
and prolonged if the entire collection can be removed to a 
greenhouse, or some similar protecting medium, and as it occurs 
at the most pleasant part ot the year, the regular inhabitants of 
these structures may be taken out to afford room for their 
summer rivals. It will be decidedly advantageous both to the 
health of the plants and their general appearance, if they can 
be accommodated with this station, a fortnight or three weeks 
before they bloom, as the leaves are then protected from injury 
occasioned by fluctuations of the weather, and an additional 
vigour imparted to the blooms, while an air of high cultivation 
will pervade the whole. It is then, indeed, that Roses are seen 
in perfection: to attempt a description of them in this state 
would be idle, they must be seen for their beauty to be duly 
and properly appreciated. 
Immediately after the flowering was over, my plants were 
removed from the greenhouse to a sheltered situation by the 
side of a north wall, and being regularly supplied with water, 
have made most luxuriant growth, sufficiently so to make a fine 
display next year nearly a matter of certainty ; they will remain 
where they are now placed until the return of frosty weather, 
when the plunging must be repeated, and the same routine of 
management renewed. By allowing them to bloom at the 
natural season, and removing them directly it is over, they do 
not interfere with the culture of any other class except Gera¬ 
niums, for my Cinerarias and Calceolarias were done before the 
Roses required their space, and immediately after them the 
house was filled with Carnations, followed by Fuchsias, &c.; 
thus the erection has been a continued mass of bloom, with also 
a continued change, and much admiration has been expressed 
on viewing the several collections, but more especially with 
reference to the Roses. 
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F. St. Aulier. 
