GENERAL INFORMATION 



protect seed pods from birds or other interference 

 it is advisable to cover them both on the sides and 

 tops with wire netting. Towards early autumn the 

 seeds should be taken carefully from the heps 

 and planted, each lot being kept separate from the 

 others. 



Our experience has been that probably in mature 

 seeds a little rose plant will sprout in a month or 

 thereabouts. Sometimes it will take two months or 

 even longer, but with greenhouse care, bottom heat, 

 and carefully-selected soil for germination of the 

 seed a month and a half will witness the appearance 

 certainly of some plants; in the course of another 

 six weeks very small blooms will appear on some 

 few of them, though not with the climbers. 



It is our understanding that the commercial firms 

 who grow new varieties at once bud on Manetti or 

 Briar stocks to propagate the wood, but where a 

 person had only a few seedlings, the method of 

 inarching would seem to us the most practical way 

 to secure quick results. 



" Commercial Rose Culture," by Eber Holmes, 

 contains a very interesting article, with illustrations, 

 of this method. It mentions that the Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, B.C., Bulletin No. 202, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Mr. George W. Oliver, 

 is the source from which the information is taken. 



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