PROPAGATION OF THE ROSE. 
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a fourth peat, and a fourth cow dung; trimmed a little into shape, 
and placed in the shade a while. In September, they may be put into 
their frames, covered up at night against frost, and opened in mild 
weather, until the gf ound freezes; they may then be removed, a few 
at a time, into an increased temperature, and about a month apart. 
They will be found to bloom well, and succeed each other admirably, 
all through the winter and (pfting, before those out of doors can even 
fairly start into leaf; the oW chare required being to syringe them 
against attack of insects, and ft vhat does not keep them under, fumi¬ 
gate them; and see that they never suffer from want of water. These, 
however, like the Summer Roses, will force better the second year 
than the first, by shifting them into pots a size larger, trimming the 
plants into a proper shape, taking away the weak shoots, letting them 
rest, and giving but little water towards the end of the summer, ex¬ 
cept to keep them from actually flagging; putting them in their frames 
and removing them into heat, as before, a few at a time, and a month 
apart. 
PROPAGATION OF THE ROSE. 
The Rose is propagated by seeds, by cuttings, by layers, by suckers, 
and by budding or grafting. 
Propagation from Seed. 
This mode is adopted for the purpose of raising new varieties by 
crossing different kinds, and is almost exclusively practised by profes¬ 
sional florists; it is also employed for obtaining Sweet Briers and 
stocks. When the seed is gathered in the autumn, it is either rub¬ 
bed or washed out of the 11 hips’’ and kept in dry sand; or the hips 
are laid in a cool room, and turned over from time to time, till the 
shell is rotted; the seed is sown in the succeeding spring, after which 
it will come up the same year. 
Sowing of the Seed .—Among the numerous modes of sowing the 
seed of the Rose, strange as it may seem, the very plan which has 
been adopted for fifty perennials, or perhaps more, answered as com- 
