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bage plants. He thus gets four or five hundred in a 3 X 6 

 sash, without detriment to the cabbage plants, as they 

 are leafless, and look like dried sticks until the cabbage 

 plants are taken out in spring, when they begin to leaf 

 out, and are rooted sufficiently to pot by the ist of May. 



PROPAGATING ROSES IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



The method of propagating Roses at the South is very 

 simple, particularly in the vicinity of Charleston, S. C., Sa- 

 vannah, Ga.,or in almost any part of Florida. There the 

 long, heated summers raise the temperature of the sandy 

 soil as high as the atmosphere in the winter months, if not 

 higher, forming, in fact, a sort of natural hot-bed. All, then, 

 that it is necessary to do in such a case is to make cut- 

 tings of Roses, either Monthly or Hybrid Perpetual, into 

 lengths of five or six inches, and make a trench deep 

 enough to plant them, leaving only one or two eyes or 

 buds above ground. Care must be taken to firm the cut- 

 tings well in with the foot, so as to exclude the air. The 

 cuttings may be set in the trenches four to six inches 

 apart, and two or three feet between the lines. Cuttings 

 of Roses planted in this way, in these or similar states, in 

 November and December, will form roots by February; 

 and if left to grow where placed without being disturbed, 

 will have made growths of from one to five feet in the 

 following September, according to the variety or class. 



PROPAGATION BY LAYERING. 



Propagating by layering in the usual way in the soil is 

 but little practised now-a-days, since the ways of rooting 

 plants by cuttings have been so greatly simplified; but 

 occasionally some one may want a few plants of a Rose 



