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in the usual way, without pots, a heavy percentage is 

 almost certain to be lost during the winter. To the florist 

 without proper means of propagation, this method of 

 layering Roses in pots will be found very advantageous, 

 as every layer so made will make an excellent flowering- 

 plant by spring, if kept in a green-house or frame during the 

 winter, and will prove nearly as valuable to the purchaser 

 as large one-year-old plants would. Roses are also prop- 

 agated by budding in the usual way. Budding, like layer- 

 ing, may be performed on the Rose at any time during the 

 season from June to September, although it is best to per- 

 form it either so early, say before the middle of July, that 

 the buds will start and the shoots get time to ripen before 

 frost, or so late, from the end of August to the 1st of Oc- 

 tober, that the buds will remain dormant until spring. 



That the operation may be successful, it is essential 

 that the stock be in thrifty growth, so that the bark will 

 freely part from the stem, and, also, that the bud to be 

 inserted be taken from a healthy-growing plant, the eye 

 or bud at the axil of the leaf being well developed. 

 There is quite a diversity of opinion among different 

 operators whether the thin piece of wood should be re- 

 moved from the bud before insertion. We have experi- 

 mented extensively in both ways, and found but little 

 difference in our success, and have finally settled down to 

 the practice that if the bud is young and unripened, the 

 wood be allowed to remain ; if well ripened, it is taken 

 out. In tying, we prefer the soft cotton used for lamp- 

 wick in preference to any other material, as it expands 

 with the growth of the shoot, doing away with the neces- 

 sity of slacking the tie to prevent it from cutting the bark. 



MONTHLY ROSES HOW TO PRESERVE DURING WINTER. 



The question is asked me many hundred times every 

 season, "What kind of Roses shall I plant ?" I invaria- 

 bly recommend the " Monthly," rather than the so-called 



