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pare a bed with a very slight bottom-heat about the end of July 

 or the beginning of August, when the young wood is getting a 

 little firm. A hotbed that has been used for propagating bedding 

 or other stock in spring, and that has parted with a portion of its 

 heat, will do very well. On the bed place 6 inches or 8 inches 

 in depth of Cocoa-fibre refuse in a partial state of decomposition, 

 and in this dibble the cuttings. The latter should be taken from 

 healthy plants ; if they possess a heel all the better, but they will 

 root without it. The frames must be kept close and shaded. The 

 exhausted Cocoa -fibre does not part readily with its moisture, 

 therefore very little water will be required. Its great utility as 

 a medium for rooting cuttings consists in this even state of moisture, 

 as most of the mortality among cuttings arises from damp being 

 present in excess. As soon as the cuttings have made roots half 

 an inch or so long, they should be lifted carefully out of the bed, 

 potted, and kept in the same temperatiu-e under like conditions 

 until they have made some growth, when they will bear removal 

 to a cool frame to be hardened off. Another way of striking Rose 

 cuttings is to plant them in the open air early in October, making 

 all firm about them, and sheltering witli a little dry litter in cold 

 frosty weather. Roses may be rooted from cuttings in pots under 

 glass in spring ; the cuttings to be taken from j^lants that have 

 been forced. 



Varieties. — The following list includes the best varieties in 

 the various sections : — 



Hybrid Perpetuals. — Captain Christy, Duchesse deVallombrosa, 

 A. K. AVilliams, Alfred Colomb, Abel Carri^re, Avocat Duvivier, 

 Anna de Diesbach, Antoine Ducher, Baroness Rothschild, Boildieu, 

 Beauty of Waltham, Comtesse de Sereuye, Cheshunt Hybrid, 

 Couitesse Riza du Pare, Charles Lefebvre, Countess of Oxford, 

 Duke of Connaught, Due de Montpensier, Duchess of Bedford, 

 Dupuy Jamain, Emily Laxtoii, Empress of India, Etienne Levet, 

 Enulie Hausbiu-g, Frangois ]\Iichelon, Gabriel Tournier, Hippolyte 

 Jamain, Jean Liabaud, John Stuart Mill, Jean Soupert, John 

 Hopper, Julius Finger, Jules Margottin, La Rosiere, La France, 

 Lord Beaconsfield, Louise Darzen.s, Mons. E. Y. Teas, Mrs. Baker, 

 Mdlle. Marie Finger, Marguerite Brassac, Mdlle. Marie Cointet, 

 j\Iadame Lacharme, Miss Hassard, Mrs. Laxton, Magna Charta, 

 Madame Prosper-Laugier, Mdlle. Bonnaire, Mdlle. Marie Rady, 

 Marchioness of Exeter, Mabel Morrison, Madame Ferdinand Jamain, 

 ]\Iadame Nachiu-y, Marie Baumann, Marquise de Castellane, 

 Oxonian, Prince Arthur, Princess Beatrice, Prince Camille de 

 Rohan, Reynolds Hole, Royal Standard, Star of AValtham, Sultan 

 of Zanzibar, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Rev. J. B. Camm, Penelope 



