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protected from heavy drying winds, and fully exposed 

 to the dews of the night, which are very genial to 

 them. In about three or four weeks they will be 

 rooted, and may either remain where planted till au- 

 tumn, or be at once transplanted into pots, and placed 

 in the shade till they have taken fresh root. These 

 cuttings will make fine plants for the next stason, 

 and by extra culture may be made fine plants for 

 blooming in the green-house during winter. Cuttings 

 taken off in September, and planted in a very shaded 

 situation, will be well rooted in the following spring, 

 and may then be transplanted into any part of the 

 garden. The latter period will be the best for all the 

 southern states, and the former for the eastern states. 

 Indeed cuttings can be taken off and may be propa- 

 gated successfully, at any period of the season, when 

 the plant has just ceased to bloom, which is the grand 

 criterion for propagating the rose. In some soils of a 

 close vsandy nature, all that is required is merely to 

 put in a small piece of a shoot, in moist cloudy weath- 

 er, where it is shaded from the direct raj's of the sun, 

 and it will root in a few weeks without any other care. 

 Where there is the convenience of a forcing house, 

 or hot-bed of manure, there is another period of the 

 season when the rose may be extensively propagated, 

 which is practised to a very great extent by nursery- 

 men who commence forcing roses in February. As 



