AUTUMNAL ROSES. 
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may also be prolonged by throwing out the flower buds in 
August, which may be accounted the middle of the flowering 
season; and if the flowering is then diminished the plant will 
continue longer and also come earlier into flower. The habit of 
the new-flowering variety does not make it answer so well as a 
standard rose ; for, though it will flower for some years, if bud¬ 
ded on the dog-rose, yet it grows tenderly and irregularly, and 
never forms a handsome head. Its proper situation, as we have 
said, is, as a bed-rose, of comparatively humble growth, and 
there it answers very well. China roses also suit well in pots, 
and as, like most of the genus, they love a rich soil, manuring 
with manure water or with moist manure spread on the top of the 
pots very greatly improves them. The pots also should be large 
and by this treatment stout stemmed standards may be obtained 
in flower for great part, of the year. 
If seed is desired, it cannot be obtained without attention is 
paid to situation. This must be in a dry and warm soil, with 
plants trained against a wall facing the south; and if the wall 
contains flues for heated air, it is all the better. This being 
rather a troublesome operation, and the plants being so easily 
multiplied by cuttings, seed is seldom sought for in this country, 
the more so as the humidity of even the warm season is against 
their being perfected. More attention is paid to it in France be¬ 
cause the climate is more suitable, and the French florists pay 
more attention to the culture of roses than we do. Even they, 
however, have not paid to the seeding of China roses so much 
attention as the subject deserves. In a green-house well raised, 
seed is produced better perhaps than even on the south side of 
a flued wall; and as the plants, though common, are orna¬ 
mental, the finer sorts should be treated in this way, and if they 
are mixed, the probability is, that what with the tendency to 
sport, and to be cross impregnated naturally, an endless number 
of novel varieties might be obtained. 
We have, however, arrived at the limit beyond which it is not 
proper to extend a single paper, therefore we shall, on a future 
occasion, notice the remaining groups of autumnal roses ; and 
also say something on the seeding of roses generally. 
