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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
April, 1919 
How to Propagate Roses 
The propagation of roses for 
one’s own use is an essential part 
of the work of the home rose , gar- 
dener if he would reduce expenses 
and add a new interest to rose 
growing. 
The plants are propagated from 
seed, by hardwood cuttings, soft- 
wood cuttings, layers, budding, 
and grafting. The rose species 
used as shrubs, such as the Rugo- 
sa, Carolina, Prairie, and Wichu- 
raiana, are propagated by root 
sprouts and the others named by 
liardwood cuttings. The Wiclmr- 
aiana is naturally a trailing plant 
which takes root near any eye. By 
cutting rooted stems into pieces so 
that each one has some roots and 
an eye each one will make a plant. 
Climbing roses are mostly prop- 
agated by hardwood cuttings. 
Cut-flower roses are grown from 
hardwood cuttings, greenwood or 
softwood cuttings, and by bud- 
ding or grafting. 
Hardwood cuttings are taken 
from the dormant wood of winter, 
while softwood, or greenwood cut- 
tings are taken when the plants 
are in active growth. To make a 
hardwood cutting, good, strong, 
well-ripened shoots of the past 
summer’s growth should be se- 
lected. These are better if cut be- 
tween the time the leaves fall and 
freezing weather. If left until 
cold weather there is danger of in- 
jury from freezing. They should 
be cut into pieces of 5 or 6 inches, 
with the upper cut just above a 
bud, and should be tied in bundles 
with raffia or with string that does 
not rot easily if exposed to damp- 
ness. After labeling plainly they 
should be buried in moist sand, 
tops down, and placed in a cool 
cellar or buried in the open 
ground below danger of frost. 
They should be planted in the 
open ground in the spring about 
or a little before corn-planting 
time, so that one or two eyes, or 
not over one inch of the cutting, 
is above the ground, which will 
leave -4 or 5 inches in the ground. 
Care .must be taken not to injure 
the calluses that have formed 
while the cuttings were buried. 
Sometimes, better results are ob- 
tained by planting in partial 
shade. 
Frequently cuttings made in 
winter or early spring do nearly 
as well as those made in the fall, 
but in . the north there is always 
danger of the wood being injured 
during the winter. 
Softwood, or greenwood, cut- 
tings are made soon after bloom- 
ing from wood of the current 
year’s growth. This may be taken 
from the stems that have grown 
roses, or those that have not. There 
are claims that it makes a differ- 
ence which sort of shoot is used, 
but good, strong shoots are the 
most important consideration. 
These should be cut to three eyes. 
All the leaves should be removed 
except the top one, and all the 
leaflets should be removed from 
this except parts of two. These 
cuttings may or may not be made 
with a “heel,” which in this sense 
is a piece of older wood at the bot- 
tom of the cutting. The cuttings 
should be planted at once in light 
loamy soil or in sand in a bed 
where the atmosphere may be in- 
closed. A coldframe or spent hot- 
bed is a suitable place if the glass 
is shaded or a cheesecloth frame is 
used instead of the sash. For a 
few cuttings many people have 
success by inverting over them a 
fruit jar or a glass dish. The cut- 
tings, however, need to be shield- 
ed from the direct rays of the sun 
when under glass, to prevent 
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