PROPAGATION OF ROSES BY CUTTINGS. 139 



Rose cuttings by simply sticking them between the rows 

 of Cabbage plants. He thus gets four or five hundred in 

 a three by six sash without serious detriment to the Cab- 

 bage plants, as the cuttings are leafless, and look like 

 dried sticks until the Cabbage plants are taken out in 

 spring. The cuttings then begin to leaf out, and are 

 rooted sufficiently to pot by the 1st of May. 



PROPAGATING ROSES IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



The method of propagating Roses at the South is very 

 simple, particularly in the vicinity of Charleston, S. C., 

 Savanna, Ga., or in almost any part of Florida. There, 

 the long, heated summers raise the temperature of the 

 sandy soil as high as that of the atmosphere at night in 

 the winter months, if not higher, forming, in fact, a sort 

 of natural hot-bed. All that is necessary to do in such a 

 case is to make cuttings of Roses, either Monthly or Hy- 

 brid Perpetual, in lengths of five or six inches, and make 

 a trench deep enough to plant them, leaving only one or 

 two eyes or buds above ground. Care must be taken to 

 firm the cuttings well in with the foot, so as to exclude 

 the air. The cuttings may be set in the trenches four to 

 six inches apart, and two or three feet between the lines. 

 Cuttings of Roses planted in this way, in these or similar 

 localities, in November and December, will form roots by 

 February or March ; and if left to grow where they were 

 placed, without being disturbed, will have made growths 

 of from one to five feet by the following September, ac 

 cording to the variety or class. The cuttings of Roses 

 grown South are best got from the North. 



PROPAGATION BY LAYERING. 



Propagation by layering in the usual way, in the soil, 

 is but little practised now-a-days, since the ways of root- 

 ing plants by cuttings have been so greatly simplified ; 

 but occasionally some one may want a few plants of a 



