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PROPAGATION OF SUMMEK ROSES 

 BY CUTTINGS. 



To procure early cuttings, so has to have plants 

 ready for planting out in June, strong plants 

 must be placed in the forcing-house in December ; 

 these will make vigorous shoots, which, when 

 throughly ripe in March, should be made into 

 cuttings about six inches in length ; the leaves 

 must be left on that part of the cutting above the 

 surface. Supposing the cutting to contain six 

 buds, from three of these the leaves may be re- 

 moved, or, if they are very large, even four, 

 leaving two buds with the leaves attached. The 

 cuttings may be planted singly in small pots 

 filled one third with small pieces of broken pots 

 (on these must the end of the cutting rest), and 

 the remainder with light mould, or peat and sand 

 equal quantities ; the cuttings must then be placed 

 in a gentle hotbed and kept perfectly close ; no 

 air should be admitted, by raising the lights in 

 the slightest degree, except for the operation of 

 watering ; they must be sprinkled with tepid water 

 every morning and again in the afternoon, but the 

 latter only in bright sunny weather ; these opera- 

 tions should be performed as quickly as possible, 

 to prevent their being exposed to the exhausting 

 effects of the open air. They will have made 

 roots in a fortnight or three weeks. When this is 



