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the seed being separated and sown in February, will come up in May 
or June following. The seeds should be sown in light soil and in a 
shady situation, or they may be covered with earth from half to an 
inch in depth, according to the size of the seeds. Early in the 
second spring they may be planted in rows from one to two feet 
apart every way, according to the size of the sorts. Here they may 
remain till they flower, which varies in the different sorts from the 
third to the fifth year, but most commonly they flower the fourth 
summer. 
By layers. The common mode is to lay down the young shoots 
of the preceding summer late in autumn, or early in the succeeding 
spring, and then, with the exception of the Moss Rose, and one or 
two others, they form rooted plants by the next autumn. But it is 
now found, that if the same shoots are laid down when the plant is 
beginning to flower in July, they will, with a few exceptions, pro- 
duce roots, and be fit to remove the same autumn, by which a whole 
year is gained. Such sorts as do not root in one year must be left 
on the stools till the second autumn ; but layers made when the 
shoots are in a growing state, and furnished with healthy leaves, 
root much more freely than shoots of ripe wood. After the plants 
are removed from the stools, they are planted in nursery rows, and 
in a year the blossom buds : having been carefully pinched off from 
the first laying down, they will be fit for removal to their final des- 
tination. The stools are then to be pruned, and the soil stirred and 
enriched. 
By suckers. Many of the commoner sorts admit of being rapidly 
multiplied in this way, and the plants obtained may be planted in 
their final destination at once. 
By cuttings. Most sorts might be propagated in this way from 
cuttings of young wood, cut at a joint where it is beginning to ripen, 
and planted in sand and vegetable mould, under a hand-glass. But 
this mode is only adopted with such sorts as strike easily, as the In- 
dian and Chinese kinds. 
