Propagating Rambler Roses 
flow ran I propagate Rambler roses by 
cat tings? e. b. t. 
Glastonbury. (!onn. 
It is very easy to propagate Rambler 
roses by cuttings of ripe wood in July. 
We usually take the tip of a branch 
which has llowcred. as that ripens earlier, 
cutting it about 8 or 10 in. long, the 
lower end being just below a hud. Trim 
off some of the foliage if there is much 
of it. and set in mellow ground to a 
depth which leaves about two buds above 
the ground, then invert a fruit jar or 
other wide-mouthed bottle over the cut¬ 
ting. after watering it. It is preferable 
to place the culling in a rather sheltered 
locality, and our own practice is to put 
them, as a rule, under or around the 
parent, hush. Very often we do not even 
cover with a jar. but it is more certain 
to do this, especially if the season turns 
very dry after the cutting is s?t. Reave 
the cutting un toll cited until the next 
Spring, when a high percentage of them 
will he rooted, and may be sot like nur¬ 
sery plants. If you have a favorable 
locality in a rose bed where you can 
water the cuttings and give them clean 
cultivation, you would probably root them 
very well without covering with a glass 
jar, but it is an added protection. Mulch 
during the Winter. 
These roses are also very easily propa¬ 
gated by layers, bending down a matured 
shoot, in Spring, with a slight cutting or 
heel in the bark on the under side, then 
putting earth over the place where they 
are fastened in the ground. In many 
cases such layers will have a great bunch 
of roots the following season, and may 
then he cut from the main plant, and set 
wherever desired. Such roses as Doro¬ 
thy Perkins and Dr. Van Fleet root very 
readily, but some others are a little less 
certain. 
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Root Rot or Crown Rot of Cherry 
I have a sweet cherry tree about six 
years old, about 5 in. in diameter at base 
of trunk. Il has grown w f ell : looked 
thrifty until lately. Now leaves are pale, 
some red and look ready to drop as in 
Fall. I dug around the tree where it 
enters ground and find no hark, a kind 
of dry rot. The 'tree an inch under ground 
is about 1 in. less in diameter than di¬ 
rectly above ground. Is tin's what they 
call crown rot? Is there anything 1 can 
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set no fruit last Spring, but set about 
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poleon. Tree stands in sandy, rather 
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raised hundreds of brooder chicks. No 
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it; has been sprayed each Winter. 
Chatham. N. J. c. L. w. 
The tree described by G. L. W. is 
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in some sections on the apple, plum and 
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for some time and girdled the tree. The 
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another tree should not be planted in the 
same place for two or three years if the 
disease lias been present. If a tree is not 
completely girdled it may he saved by 
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Transferring Bees; Dwarf Stocks 
1. Would you tell me how to go about 
transferring a swarm of bees from a plain 
box hive, solid bottom, which lias no 
frames inside, into a hive with frames? 
I tried to force them through with a hoe 
escape by turning the hive upside-down 
on top of the empty hive, but this did 
not work. The reason, I believe, was lie- 
cause the hive they are in has glass in 
the sides, which makes it light Per¬ 
haps they might have gone down through 
the escape hut for this. 2. Last Fall I 
set oul a number of fruit trees. Three of 
these (dwarf apple) are dead on top. hu* 
are growing shoots below the graft joint. 
Would these he any good if left to grow 
up into tree p. c. u. 
Binsdoll. N. Y. 
1. A short method for transferring the 
bees described by P. (’. II. is to place a 
super (extra story) supplied with foun¬ 
dation and comb, over the old box hive 
and make all joints tight. The queen 
will go into this and begin egg-laying and 
the workers will follow. After a time, 
remove the old box hive and leave the 
upper portion on the stand. Practically- 
all the brood w ill have been hatched from 
the old hive and the comb can he re¬ 
moved and fastened in frames in the new 
hive. By smoking all the bees will leave 
the old hive. Then remove it and the 
bees will stay in the new hive. 
2. When the top of a tree dies as far 
down as the stock, nothing is left except 
some wild type. The suckers coining from 
this root or stock w ill bear fruit in time, 
but it will be worthless. Shoots from 
the stock can be grafted or budded as de¬ 
scribed in The R. N.-Y. for July 8. page 
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