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PROPAOATION OF AUTUMNAL ROSES. 



As with the Summer Roses, these may be pro- 

 pagated by layersj, budding, grafting, following 

 the same mode of culture, and by cuttings ; the 

 latter mode is the only one reqidring special 

 notice, as the other methods applied to Summer 

 Roses, are of equal use in propagating them. All 

 the families in this division are propagated with 

 great facility by cuttings; in fact, with China, 

 Bom'bon, and Tea Roses, it is the only eligible 

 way of getting plants on their own roots. There 

 are three seasons in which this operation may be 

 performed with success — in spring, summer, and 

 autumn. 



For spring cuttings it will be necessary to re- 

 sort to the forcing-house in the month of ]March, 

 when those roses that were commenced to be 

 forced in January will be just shedding their first 

 crop of flowers : these blooming shoots will then 

 be ripe, and, as a general rule, fit for immediate 

 propagation either for cuttings or buds. It must 

 be borne in mind that no shoots are mature till 

 their blooming is past. The cuttings may be 

 made with three joints or buds, from the lower 

 end of which the leaf should be cut, leaving the 

 others untouched ; the cutting must then be in- 

 serted about one inch into a very small pot (2 

 inches deep and 1^ inches wide) of light mould, 

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