PROPAGATION OF THE ROSE. 45 



a fourth peat, and a fourth cow dung ; trimmed a little into shape, 

 and placed in the shade a while. In September, they may be put into 

 their frames, covered up at night against frost, and opened in mild 

 weather, untU the ground freezes ; they may then be removed, a few 

 at a time, into an increased temperature, and about a month apart. 

 They will be found to bloom well, and succeed each other admirably, 

 all through the winter and spring, before those out of doors can even 

 fairly start into leaf; the only care required being to syringe them 

 against attack of insects, and if that does not keep them under, fumi- 

 gate them ; and see that they never suffer from want of water. These, 

 however, hke the Summer Roses, will force better the second year 

 than the first, by shifting them into pots a size larger, trimming the 

 plants into a proper shape, taking away the weak shoots, letting them 

 rest, and giving but httle water towards the end of the summer, ex- 

 cept to keep them from actually flagging ; putting them in their frames 

 and removing them into heat, as before, a few at a time, and a month 

 apart. 



PROPAGATION OP THE ROSE. 



The Rose is propagated by seeds, by cuttings, by layers, by suckers, 

 and' by budding or grafting. 



Propagation from Seed. 



This mode is adopted for the purpose of raising new varieties by 

 crossing different kinds, and is almost exclusively practised by profes- 

 sional florists ; it is also employed for obtaining Sweet Briers and 

 stocks. When the seed is gathered in the autumn, it is either rub- 

 bed or washed out of the " hips" and kept in dry sand ; or the hips 

 are laid in a cool room, and turned over from time to time, till the 

 shell is rotted; the seed is sown in the succeeding spring, after which 

 it will come up the same year. 



Sowing of the Seed. — ^Among the numerous modes of sowing the 

 seed of the Rose, strange as it may seem, the very plan which has 

 been adopted for fifty perennials, or perhaps more, answered as com- 



