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plants growing against walls or in the open bor- 

 ders, ripe shoots may be taken as above directed, 

 planted in pots, and placed in a cold frame, kept 

 close, and sprinkled every morning. These will 

 root slowly, but surely. For autumnal cuttings 

 any convenient and spare shoots may be made into 

 cuttings, and planted under a hand-glass in a 

 warm exposure, about the middle or end of Sep- 

 tember : these must have air in mild humid 

 weather during the winter, and be gradually ex- 

 posed to the air in April by tilting the light : by 

 the end of April they will be fit for potting. All 

 the Autumnal Eoses will grow readily if the above 

 methods are followed, and the Hybrid Perpetuals 

 may be propagated even with less care, for if 

 cuttings about six inches in length, prepared by 

 cutting off all the leaves but two at the top of 

 the cutting, are planted four inches deep in a 

 shady border, in a light soil, in the month of 

 September, a large proportion of them will grow ; 

 in severe winters they are apt to fail. The 

 Damask Perpetuals only are slow in rooting, and 

 are propagated with more difficulty. 



We have recently (1872) had many methods of 

 propagating roses by cuttings given by our nu- 

 merous gardening periodicals, the greater portion 

 of them oft-told tales, but still interesting, and 

 often useful to the tyro. 



We have had a ' rose secret ' here for many 

 years, and I am not aware that it has ever made 



