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great difficulty ; these sorts can only be profitably 

 grown by budding 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 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. Cut- 

 tings of all kinds which root freely, like General 

 Jacqueminot, Victor Yeidier, 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 unneces- 

 sary and wasteful process. All of the large com- 

 mercial establishments in this country do most of 

 their rose propagation in the months of January, 

 February, and March ; the cuttings are made to 

 one eye and dibbled m beds of sand, or in some 

 cases are placed in pots of sand and these pots 

 plunged in beds of sand ; underneath the staging 



