CULTURE OP THE ROSE. 67 



the eyes in a leaning or slanting position, pressing them 

 firmly into the soil with the thumb and finger ; taking care 

 to keep the thumb on the bottom end of the cutting, to 

 prevent the ^>ark from being injured. After the eyes are 

 put in, give the pan two or three gentle raps on the bench ; 

 then put half an inch of silver or clean river sand on the 

 top, water with a fine rose, and plunge the pans in a nice 

 bottom heat of say sixty degrees, covering the surface 

 over with moss to prevent the soil from getting dry : they 

 will not require any more water for a week or ten days. 

 The moss should be carefully removed as soon as the 

 young shoots begin to push through the sand. In three 

 weeks from that time, the roses will be fit for potting off 

 into large sixty-sized pots. They should then be placed 

 in a temperature of seventy degrees, when they will soon 

 repay the care bestowed on them. I, however, prefer 

 grafting on the Manetti stock. I grafted a lot in a dor- 

 mant state seven weeks ago : they are now nice plants, 

 and will be in bloom by May." J. Wittis^ Oulton 

 Cheshire. 



This mode of propagation is attended with great advan- 

 tages and great evils. A new or rare rose may be in- 

 creased by it more rapidly and surely than by any other 

 means ; while roses of feeble growth on their own roots 



