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The Rose. In Europe they number from a thousand to fifteen hundred varieties; of the rose in India, the cultivated sorts are limited to the Madras rose, the rose Edward, the sweet scented Bussorah rose, (red and white) the Persian rose, the sweet briar, the many-flowered rose, (a climber,) the China rose, (red and damask,) and the dog rose (growing wild); the moss rose may be found to exist, but has not, it is believed, been yet known to blossom in India.....

Culture. The Rose Edward, the Madras and the Bussorah rose should be planted out in a rich, but not too light soil, at the close of the rains; the branches should be cut down to not more than a foot in length, removing at the same time all old and decayed wood; the roots should then be laid open, cleaned and pruned, and allowed to remain open until blossom buds begin to appear at the end of the first shoots; the hole must then be filled with good strong stable manure, and slightly earthed over—about a month after, a basket of stable dung with the litter should be heaped up round the stems, and bricks or turf placed over it, to take off the unsightly appearance; while flowering, too, it will be well to water with liquid manure at least once a week. If it be desired to continue the trees in blossom, the shoots should be removed as soon as they have done flowering. To secure full large blossoms, all the buds from a shoot should be cut off, except one, when quite young.