100 THE ROSE. 
sorts can only be profitably grown by bud- 
ding or grafting. Cuttings can be made at 
any time of the year. The old ideas that the 
wood must be cut at a joint or with a heel, 
and that it is essential they should be placed 
in bottom heat, have been thoroughly ex- 
ploded. The most successful propagation 
made by cuttings, for the largest number of 
kinds, is made during the late winter months 
from strong plants one or two years old that 
have been grown in open ground, potted in 
the month of November; or from plants 
which have been grown in pots for one year, 
or planted out under glass. Cuttings of all 
kinds which root freely, like General Jacque- 
minot, Victor Verdier, etc., can be made 
from one eye only, and cut between the 
joints just as well as after the old fashion of 
cutting to a heel, and with three or more 
eyes—an tnnecessary and wasteful process. 
All of the large commercial establishments 
in this country do most of their rose propa- 
gation in the months of January, February, 
and March; the cuttings are made to one eye 
and dibbled in beds of sand, or in some cases 
are placed in pots of sand and these pots 
plunged in beds of sand; underneath the 
staging which supports the cuttings run hot- 
water pipes or flues; these are commonly 
