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solid. This may then be covered with a quarter to half 
an inch of sand to prevent baking and to hold the 
moisture for the cuttings must not dry out. They 
should not be lifted from this bed before the next fall. 
The cuttings should be six to eight inches long and 
are made from the new growth. They will root most 
readily if a heel of the older wood is retained. 
Those interested in roses should obtain from the 
Portland Rose Society, of Portland, Oregon, the booklet 
entitled “Portland Roses.” 
The finest roses in the world are displayed at Port¬ 
land’s Annual Rose Festival, and Portland is now known 
as “The Rose City.” 
It is here in our wonderful Oregon climate that the 
rose is seen in all its perfection, and the atheist who can 
stand before the queenly beauty of a Duchess of Well¬ 
ington, Sunburst, or Lady Hillingdon, and say that this 
all came by mere chance, has a small mind indeed and 
one from which reason has all but fled. 
