THE ROSE. 



sorts can only be profitably grown by bud- 

 ding or grafting. Cuttings can be made at 

 any time of the year. The old ideas that the 

 wood must be cut at a joint or with a heel, 

 and that it is essential they should be placed 

 in bottom heat, have been thoroughly ex- 

 ploded. The most successful propagation 

 made by cuttings, for the largest number of 

 kinds, is made during the late winter months 

 from strong plants one or two years old that 

 have been grown in open ground, potted in 

 the month of November; or from plants 

 which have been grown in pots for one year, 

 or planted out under glass. Cuttings of all 

 kinds which root freely, like General Jacque- 

 minot, Victor Verdier, etc., can be made 

 from one eye only, and cut between the 

 joints just as well as after the old fashion of 

 cutting to a heel, and with three or more 

 eyes an unnecessary and wasteful process. 

 All of the large commercial establishments 

 in this country do most of their rose propa- 

 gation in the months of January, February, 

 and March ; the cuttings are made to one eye 

 and dibbled in beds of sand, or in some cases 

 are placed in pots of sand and these pots 

 plunged in beds of sand; underneath the 

 staging which supports the cuttings run hot- 

 water pipes or flues; these are commonly 



