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PEOPAGATION OF AUTUMNAL EOSES. 



As with the Summer Eoses, these may be pro- 

 pagated by layers, budding, grafting, following 

 the same mode of culture, and by cuttings ; the 

 latter mode is the only one requiring special 

 notice, as the other methods applied to Summer 

 Eoses are of equal use in propagating these. All 

 the families in this division are propagated with 

 great facility by cuttings; in fact, with China, 

 Bourbon, and Tea Eoses, it is the only eligible 

 way of getting plants on their own roots. There 

 are three seasons in which this operation may be 

 performed with success, in spring, summer, and 

 autumn. 



For spring cuttings it will be necessary to re- 

 sort to the forcing-house in the month of March, 

 when those roses that were commenced to be 

 forced in January will be just shedding their 

 first crop of flowers : these blooming shoots will 

 then be ripe, and, as a general rule, fit for imme- 

 diate propagation either for cuttings or buds, It 

 must be borne in mind that no shoots are mature 

 till their blooming is past. The cuttings may be 

 made with three joints or buds, from the lower 

 end of which the leaf should be cut, leaving the 

 others untouched ; the cutting must then be in- 

 serted about one inch into a very small pot of 

 light mould, or peat and sand, equal parts. With 



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