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garden. The latter period will be the best for all 

 the Southern States, and the former for the East- 

 ern States. Indeed, cuttings can be taken off, and 

 may be propagated successfully, at any period of 

 the season, when the plant has just ceased to 

 bloom, which is the grand criterion for propagat- 

 ing the rose. In some soils, of a close, sandy 

 nature, all that is required is merely to put in a 

 small piece of a shoot, in moist, cloudy weather, 

 where it is shaded from the direct rays of the sun, 

 and it will root in a few weeks without any other 

 care. 



Where there is the convenience of a forcing- 

 house, or hot-bed of manure, there is another 

 period of the season when the rose may be ex- 

 tensively propagated, which is practised to a very 

 great extent by nurserymen who commence forcing 

 roses in February. As soon as they show bloom, 

 the shoots are cut into cuttings of two eyes each, 

 and planted into very small pots, of very sandy 

 soil ; these are placed into a close, warm hot-house, 

 or hot-bed, in a moist temperature of 70° to 80°, 

 where they will root in from two to three weeks, 

 and are frequently sold within six weeks from 

 the time they were planted. The very scientific 

 have resorted to another mode of multiplying, 

 which, with many sorts, makes strong plants in a 



