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firming and accelerating their naturally compact and bushy 
habit; in order to effect this I would continually pinch off the 
points of the young growing shoots, leaving about three or four 
leaves on each; and this would be continued during their whole 
season of growth until they were become large and compact 
bushes. The whole course of pruning would be carried on on 
this principle and with this view. In other points of treatment 
they may be associated with those previously alluded to. With 
them I would class the whole of those included in 4 and 7, 
excepting perhaps the double yellow rose, and this, from its pe¬ 
culiar habit and the difficulty of blooming it bv any artificial 
course or treatment, I should scarcely consider as being at all 
adapted to pot culture; if it were attempted, I would recom¬ 
mend a course somewhat similar to that already laid down 
for the Banksian rose. 
Having thus far confined my remarks to the several individual 
sections, I will now endeavour to notice a few of the general 
features of the treatment I would recommend. 
In the compost which I have already briefly noticed, it will 
be seen that I have not recommended the application of anv 
solid manures. It is not because roses are plants which do not 
require a rich soil, or which do not thrive upon the addition of 
manuring substances, that I have hitherto omitted to notice them, 
but rather because I would prefer to supply manure in a liquid 
state, and as such I would seek to give it a prominent mention, 
not, however, with the view of recommending a copious appli¬ 
cation, but rather to caution and guard those into whose hands 
these remarks may fall, not to indulge too lavjshly in applying 
it, but only at considerable intervals, and then only in small 
quantities. If plants in pots are kept supplied with good fresh 
compost, either by frequent stuffings or by placing them at once 
into a considerable mass, the decomposition of the matters con¬ 
tained in it will supply them with all the food requisite to a 
healthy and vigorous development; and it is only when the 
plants are sufficiently supplied with light to elaborate the food 
taken up by the roots, that a considerable supply may be safely 
indulged in. It may form matter of experiment whether animal, 
vegetable, or mineral manures are best suited to the plants in 
question; or whether a substance combining each of these, 
would possess still more fertilizing properties than either of them 
