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arid, also to plentifully supply the roots with water under the 
same supposed circumstances, and this matter should be attended 
to previous to budding, that the plants may be in a free growing 
state.- 
The best time -to put in cuttings is about the middle of July 
or the beginning of August. They should be taken off the 
parent plant with what is technically termed a heel, making the 
incision close to the preceding year’s growth, from which the 
cutting started; as they are prepared, let them be thrown into a 
pan of water, for if the cuttings are allowed to lose their fresh¬ 
ness, they will not emit roots so freely as otherwise. 
For striking, choose a south aspect, and select those hand¬ 
glasses with portable tops, placing them firmly on an inch or two 
of coal ashes and lime to prevent the ingress of worms; fill the 
bottom part of each glass full two thirds with equal parts of 
well-decomposed leaf-mould and river-sand, or sharp road-drift, 
in which thickly insert the cuttings, giving a good sprinkling 
with a syringe or fine rose watering-pot. Shut them down close, 
and shade from the intense rays of the sun, and maintain a 
humid atmosphere about them, taking off the moveable part of 
the glass occasionally to dry up superfluous moisture. 
When rooted, which will be in a few weeks, put them into 
three-inch pots, using the same compost, with an addition of a 
small portion of good, rich, turfy loam, and place them in a cold 
frame, on a good stratum of coal ashes, keeping them close and 
shaded until they become somewhat established, when air must 
be abundantly administered. In this situation they may remain 
until they are required for turning out the following season. 
Slightly protect them from severe frost, but expose freely in pro¬ 
pitious weather. These will be found to make strong blooming 
plants the following spring without the loss of a single plant. 
Where this lovely plant is extensively grown, perhaps no better 
plan can be devised for the rosery than the geometric, and a 
radiating series of circular beds w T ould afford the readiest means 
of grouping and arranging, according to their affinities, the 
several families of the extensive genus ; thus, if -a small circular 
bed occupy the centre, filled with pillar roses, and a walk surround 
it, on the outside of which another bed of convenient width, to 
be succeeded bv another walk, and another bed of the same 
