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ripe shoots may be taken as above directed, 

 planted in pots, and placed in a cold frame, kept 

 close, and sprinkled every morning. These will 

 root slowly, but ^surely. For autumnal cuttings 

 any convenient and spare. shoots may be made 

 into cuttings, and planted under a hand-glass in 

 a warm exposure, about the middle or end of 

 September : these must have air in mild humid 

 weather during the winter, and be gradually 

 exposed to the air in April by tilting the light : 

 by the end of April they will be fit for potting. 

 All the Autumnal Roses will grow readily if the 

 above methods are followed, and the Hybrid 

 Perpetuals may be propagated even with less care, 

 for if cuttings about six inches in length prepared 

 by cutting off all the leaves but two at the top of 

 the cutting, are planted four inches deep in a 

 shady border, in a light soil, in the month of Sep- 

 tember, a large proportion of them will grow; in 

 severe winters they are apt to fail. The Damask 

 Perpetuals only are slow in rooting, and are pro- 

 pagated with more difficulty. 



SPRING AND SUMMER GRAFTING OF 

 AUTUMNAL ROSES. 



THIS is a most interesting method of propagation ? 

 and most simple. Stocks of any free-growing 



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