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ON THE CULTURE OF ROSES. 
Not later than the first week in October prepare to remove them back into the 
greenhouse. Clean and properly tie them up previous to setting them on the 
stage. 
After they are removed again to the house, give them abundance of air day and 
night, and continue gradually to decrease it as the weather becomes colder. 
The propagation of greenhouse plants must be performed at different times of 
the year, according to the nature and habits of the plants, and the state of growth 
in which the cuttings will strike with the greatest freedom. Some grow the best 
when the wood is quite young and tender, others when it begins to assume a 
brownish colour, called half-ripened, and others when it has become quite hard and 
ripe. But as a general rule, half-ripened cuttings will do best. 
All hard- wooded plants make roots best in clear sand, but soft- wooded kinds 
should be planted in a light mixture of loam. Therefore, after well draining the 
pots or pans intended to receive the cuttings, fill them according to the nature of 
the plants to be propagated. On no account plant soft-wooded and hard-wooded 
cuttings in the same pot. 
Some sorts will not grow readily without a little bottom heat. Plunge the pots 
in a cucumber frame, or pit of any kind, where they will receive the benefit of 
warmth. 
After putting them in, give them a gentle sprinkling of water with a rose; keep 
the frame as closely shut down as can be until the cuttings are struck, which will 
be in about three weeks or a month, with some few exceptions. Look them over 
and water as often as they require it. Those sorts requiring to be covered with 
bell or hand glasses will require to have the glasses taken off occasionally and wiped, 
to prevent the cuttings from being injured by damp. 
When the cuttings have struck root and begin to grow, then pot them in small 
pots filled with soil suitable to their nature ; replace them for awhile in the frame, 
and gradually expose them to the air until they will bear the temperature and 
treatment of the other plants in the greenhouse. 
Sow the seeds of greenhouse plants in pans or pots, filled with a light soil, as 
early in the spring as possible ; place the pots in a very gentle heat, keep the soil 
damp by covering with moss, and occasionally sprinkling with water; and when 
they are about an inch high pot them off into small-sized pots, and treat them as 
cuttings. 
ON THE CULTURE OF ROSES. 
This ornament and charm both of the palace and the cottage, seems to have been 
an universal favourite for an unknown length of time, both throughout Europe and 
Asia. Along the plains of Syria, roses are formed in thick plantations, and form 
one of the means of subsistence to the natives, who convert the leaves and flowers 
into cakes, otto, and tarts ; the latter, according to modern British travellers, are 
very delicious : it is not certain, however, what are the species there cultivated. At 
Damascus the young tops of rose trees are gathered and eaten as vegetables. 
