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in the admission of stronger light, is called for. In about six weeks 

 they will be sufficiently advanced to be no longer nurselings, and 

 will require stronger soil in larger pots, and from this stage be 

 given the same treatment as that recommended for grafted plants 

 at the same stage. 



This method of propagation is by no means to be despised, 

 but no more must be expected of it than from other methods. 



FIG. 22. Rose Cutting-s in 5" pot 



There will be losses ; these are inevitable, and it must be considered 

 as not unsatisfactory if 50 per cent of the cuttings inserted materialise 

 into saleable plants. We have come to look upon that as a fair result 

 and one that is not unprofitable. 



There is yet another method which we have often adopted with 

 success. In January many of our indoor roses are pruned back 

 for forcing, and this is done just as the eyes begin to swell. We 

 have made cuttings of the prunings, say 3 to 4 inches in length, 

 and have inserted these in pots or pans and stood them in an unheated 

 house to come along at their own sweet will. Any heat applied 

 would most certainly excite growth, and this we do all we can to 

 avoid, rather hoping to see a gradual callus at the base and the 

 emission of small rootlets before the eyes become active. We have 

 some hundreds of plants by us, struck in this way, which we find 

 economical, and tolerably certain. It is when these have rooted and 

 require potting off, in March or April, that warm treatment must 

 be given. 



