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AN AMATEUR'S LETTER 
TO AMATEURS. 
By the author of “ The Garden Decorative 
etc., etc. 
VII. 
Striking Rose Cuttings. 
Year by year it is becoming more usual 
to grow Roses on their own roots, both for 
house and for garden cultivation. It is the 
method greatly favoured by the novice and 
the amateur generally; and indeed, this 
method of growing Roses is both easy and 
interesting. There is no time than the 
present more to be des : red for striking the 
cuttings, and a brief description of the 
process may prove helpful The cuttings 
themselves should consist of well-matured 
wood of the present season’s growth. Seven 
or eight inches makes a good length of 
cutting, and where it is possible it should be 
taken off with a “heel.” Growth that 
has already borne blossom often proves the 
readiest to root, and is generally well 
matured. It is the soft, sappy growth that 
should be discarded, for such rarely proves 
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK 
“ Your voiceless lips, 0 flowers, are living preachers—each cup a pulpit, and each leaf 
a hook .” — Horace Smith. 
made flat at the bottom so much the better ; 
on this about an inch and a half of sand 
should be spread and watered. This makes 
a firm bottom to the trench. A little of the 
soil should now be filled in, and the cuttings 
should be taken and pushed in until 
they rest firmly on the sand bottom. The 
rest of the soil must be brought up round 
them until at least three-quarters of the 
length of each cutting is buried, and the 
whole must be firmly trodden, so that the 
cuttings, which should be from nine to twelve 
inches apart, are tight and firm. They should 
be watered as soon as planted, as this helps 
to settle the soil about them. Many 
authorities advise a bell glass above them, 
to exclude the air; but I must confess that 
I always have more satisfactory results 
without it. True, I invariably put in cut¬ 
tings in a northern or eastern aspect; but 
if I had to put them in far hotter positions 
successful. 
A trench Bhould be dug, and if 
Rose Cutting for Striking. 
I still should make an effort to do without 
the bell glass. 
If the weather is very hot and dry I have 
found it wonderfully beneficial to put a few 
large stones or pieces of brick between the 
cuttings, as these prevent the too rapid 
evaporation of moisture. One may well 
take advantage of such rough-and-ready 
ways if they make for success, and Rose 
cuttings treated after the manner I have 
described should yield from eighty 7 to ninety 
per cent, of well-rooted strong-growing 
young trees within a year from the time of 
starring them. 
Propagating from Buds. 
Few Roses root so quickly and easily as 
the Rambler section. A piece about 6 in. 
long taken off and thrown into the water-tub 
was found to have rooted well at the end of 
a month or a little more, and, indeed, this 
growing of Rose cuttings in water may well 
commend itself to the amateur. A few 
cuttings taken and trimmed and put in a 
jar of rain water is simple enough ; but this 
is the whole process, the water being changed 
occasionally. Another interesting and novel 
manner of obtaining Rose trees is to grow 
from a single bud instead of a cutting. A 
well-developed bud is selected and prepared 
in the same manner as if to be used for 
budding, but the wood less cut away under 
the bud. 
Instead of inserting in the stem of 
another stock, this bud is planted in a pot 
—that is to say it is laid on the soil, lightly 
pegged in place and watered. This often 
brings the soil sufficiently to cover and 
settle round it; if not a little must be added, 
but the bud itself must be free. There should 
be no difficulty in rooting even without 
bottom heat, though where available it is to 
be recommended, especially so late in the 
season as the present time, for, like budding, 
this is more especially a summer method 
of propagation. Damp is the chief enemy to 
fear, and should be guarded against. 
Roses to Grow. 
I have said nothing as yet as to the 
selection that a novice should be able to 
grow successfully in garden or conservatory. 
For the Rose garden, we may take it for 
granted that the first consideration is to 
secure really good decorative varieties ; 
secondly, that they be varieties that make 
strong and free growth ; and thirdly, that 
they flower over a long period and produce 
a great quantity of blossom, and are perfectly 
hardy. The more one grows the Hybrid 
Teas the more enthusiastic Rose-lover does 
one become. No varieties are so long- 
enduring as these, and none are more suit¬ 
able for massing. A very beautiful garden 
could be made by planting, say, Viscountess 
Folkestone, a wonderfully free flowering 
Rose of the tenderest pink—a pink to be 
compared to the colouring of the inside of 
sea shells. Caroline Testout is the sturdiest, 
boldest representative of all the H.T.’s, 
producing early and late in the season 
quantities of large bright pink blossom. 
Liberty is undoubtedly the best of the dark 
crimsons of this section. Madame Ravary 
would yield the bright golden yellow blos¬ 
soms, beautiful alike as bud or full blown 
blossom. La France, old as it is, has never 
been superseded, never perhaps reached for 
delicate dainty beauty both of form and 
colouring; while for bright rich rose-crimson 
blooms Marquis of Salisbury is a grand ac¬ 
quisition. A half-dozen good and hardy 
Teas would include the Honourable Edith 
Gifford, Corallina, Madame Lambard, 
Madame Falcot, Fortuna, and that fine but 
seldom written of General Schablikini. Of 
the Hybrid Perpetuals, Ulrich Brunner, Ben 
Cant, Captain Christy, General Jacqueminot, 
Mrs. J, Laing, and the beautiful pure white- 
flowered Frau Karl Druschki make a good 
representative collection. 
In planting Roses it is well not to lose 
sight of the fact that the present day has 
made it the fashion—and a very beautiful 
fashion —to mass Roses by using several 
specimens of each variety rather than a great 
quantity of varieties in single specimens. 
It is, too, a good plan, however small it must 
