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its place; cover it up with the soil, and press it firmly 
to the layer, securing it to a small stick. In the fol¬ 
lowing spring cut off the layers that are rooted, and 
head them down to within three or four buds of the 
surface, then plant them out in good soil, and they 
will flower the next season. 
Many of the hardy Running Roses, as the JBour- 
sault, Michigan or Prairie roses, and others of similar 
habits, will root very freely, by layering the young 
shoots, when in a soft growing state, without cutting 
them ; merely bending them to the ground, and cov¬ 
ering them with a few inches of soil. The Noisettes 
or cluster roses, and other half hardy kinds, will 
grow freely from cuttings, taken from the bushes in 
the fall at the November pruning. They should be 
cut into lengths of five or six inches long, then tied 
into bunches and buried in a dry sandy soil during the 
winter. In spring, take them up, and plant them in a 
bed in rows at eight inches apart, keep them clean 
of weeds, and water them in dry weather. In the 
Spring following, they may be planted out where 
wanted to flower. 
The varieties of Rosa spinosissima, or Scotch roses, 
to which the yellow Harrison belongs, have slender 
branches, and numerous thorns with fibrous roots, and 
grow very near the surface of the ground. They pre¬ 
fer an open situation in the garden, but do not require 
so deep or strong a soil as the other species of roses, 
and neither do they need much pruning, except cut¬ 
ting out the old stems when they are past flowering, 
and as they sucker from the roots freely, they are 
mostly raised by that method. 
