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Most hardj roses— hybrid perpetuals, Eourbons, and 

 tea-roses may be increased by cuttings, whenever good 

 cuttings present themselves, and that is during the 

 whole of the flowering season. "Whenever the roses die 

 off on a fine healthy shoot, cut the shoot with a spur of 

 the old wood to form a heel. Fill five or six inch pots 

 with a compost of friable loam, leaf-mould, and sand, 

 press it pretty firm, and plant the cuttings so as not to 

 touch each other ; having previously trimmed them, by 

 removing all the leaves from the part which is to go into 

 the earth, and all but one or two from the upper part. 

 Water them with a fine rose, and place the pots in a 

 frame with a gentle bottom heat ; shut up close, and 

 shade from the sun. As time goes on, water only when 

 necessary with a very fine rose on the watering-pot. 

 When they have rooted they may be potted singly, and 

 again placed in a frame with a gentle bottom heat, where 

 they should be shaded and watered for nine days or a 

 fortnight. As the root gains growth they may be har- 

 dened, previous to planting out. 



There are many quite first-rate sorts which may be 

 grown from cuttings, planted under a handglass on a 

 north border in summer. Dig out a space a foot and a 

 half deep, and rather larger than the handglass ; put in 

 crocks for draining to the depth of half a foot, half a 

 foot of manure, and fill it with good compost, as. named 

 above. Cut and plant the cuttings in the same way, 

 never removing the glass except for necessary watering. 

 In this way I have known the following good useful 

 roses do well, and make handsome bushes, and, with 

 necessary training, standards: — General Jacqueminot, 

 Geant des Batailles, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Gloire de 

 Dijon, Safranot, Aimee Yibert, Marquise Eoccella, Wil- 

 liam Jesse, Eeine d'Angleterre, Jules Margottin, The 

 Aurore, Jaune Desprez, Madame Plantier, Pierre de St. 

 Cyr, La Eeine, Senateur Yaisse, C(^te de ]S'anteuil, 

 William Griffith, Ophirie, Smith's Yellow, Mrs. Eosan- 

 quet, jSTapoleon, and many others of similar habits — 

 not a bad collection, for a plain garden of modest pre- 

 tensions. 



