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is the course of treatment which experience teaches us is most 
likely to result thus ; but as of all other professions, horticulture 
is the most uncertain as to its results, so in this individual in¬ 
stance, some inaccuracy in the adaptation of the means to the 
circumstances of the case may cause a failure which can scarcely 
be said to inculpate the operator. 1 should 'recommend a 
similar mode of treatment also to those kinds included in §§ 1, 
3, 5, and 6. 
China roses are much more likely to become generally culti¬ 
vated in pots than those we have been considering, on account of 
their greater degree of tractability, and the profusion and succes¬ 
sion in which they produce their blossoms ; unlike the last, their 
habit will admit of their being grown into compact and perma¬ 
nent bushes of considerable size, and when such is the case, if 
they are at all in a healthy state, an abundance of bloom will 
be an accompanying characteristic of the group. 
If grown on their own roots, it is preferable to raise them 
from cuttings rather than from layers, as by this means, in con¬ 
sequence of a more equal balance between the roots and the 
branches, a more regularly progressive development is the result. 
The soil in which they thrive most freely is a mixture of turfy 
loam and peat; indeed, when in a ydung state, I have known 
them to succeed best in a compost of turfy peat with only a 
small portion of sand intermixed. They require to be kept close 
in a slightly raised temperature when quite young, in order to 
induce them to make a free growth; without this attention, 
especially if potted early in spring or in the autumn, they are 
very apt to die off immediately on being removed from the cuU 
ting pot. Of the subsequent treatment of the plants during the 
remainder of their infant stages, I need say but little ; they re¬ 
quire the same care in watering, potting, and routine culture, 
which all plants in the purely artificial position of a garden pot 
imperatively demand, and for a neglect of which no justifiable 
reason can be adduced on the part of the cultivator, unless, in¬ 
deed, it be that his attention is taxed beyond his powers or the 
means under his command. 
As far as regards pruning and training, these plants offer 
some difference from those already noticed; when young they 
should be continually stopped , to induce a permanently bushy 
habit; after a season’s growth they would only require a few of 
