The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-05-19
CULTURE OF ROSES.
How Refined Farmers May Propagate
These Beautiful Flowers.

no" heUned FARMERS May propagate
These Beautiful Flowers.
Florists who propagate roses by the
ten or hundred thousand plants a year
endeavor to have every facility for the
work, but the farmer who has no green
house and requires only u few more
roses each year to keep up his stock,
must have recourse to ruder means of
increasing his plants, All sorts of rose
bushes root freely from layers; that is,
from shoots forced into the ground SO
as to bury the edges two or three
inches deep with soil, holding it in
place there with a peg This had bet
ter be done in July or August. II at a
joint near the elbow u break or slant.
ing cut is made half through the shoot,
but no deeper, it will assist in the
formation of roots. Let the layers stay
as they are for year before you sever
them from the parent stock, and treat
them as independent plants. Moss
roses or Persian yellow roses have to
be propagated in this way, or by bud,
ding them in other roots, as they will
not readily strike from cuttings. A
good many varieties Of our bedding
roses, as Baroness Rothschild, root
from cuttings with such difficulty that
we should also layer them; but what
sorts root easily and what with diff
Guilty can be ascertained only by indi-
vidual practice.
The great mass of bedding roses can
be propagated from cuttings. In No.
vember select strong ripe wood, and
cut it up into pieces about six inches
long, and preserve these in the cellar in
moist sawdust or earth as you would
apple or pear tree cions. In early
spring plant them out in rows six inches
apart and one or two inches between
the cuttings in the row. One or two
eyes above ground will be enough.
Pack the earth very firmly about the
cuttings. Shade them u little by lay
ing few evergreen branches over
them, and never allow them to get dry.
In five or six weeks n good many will
begin to root and grow But you must
expect a good many to die.
Cuttings of roses may also be cut off
in the spring and put in at once; many
will grow. They may also be secured
and put in at any time between spring
and winter. The important thing to
observe in propag ating roses from cut
tings is never to allow the cutting to
shriyel or become dry in the least be-
fore it begins to root and for this rea-
son summer cuttings had better be put
in shady places.
In the case of tea and china roses and
others of that type which we grow as
pot plants, we can clip them at any
time; merely cut off bit with two or
three eyes and the leaves attached, re-
move the lower leaf and stick the slip
into the ground, be that out of doors or
into a pot in the house.
While we florists use sand for roofing
rose cuttings in, would not recon-
mend it to farmers because it gets dry
so quickly; sandy loan is all right and
keeps the moisture better and holds the
cuttings firmer Keep the cuttings
moist and shaded enough to prevent
the leaves from willing.
All points considered, the Mannetti
is the best stock for budding on, but
any vigorous-growing, hardy rose is
good enough. Every kind of rose can
be propagated by budding. Insert the
buds close down near the ground. But
on account of the persistent efforts of
the stocks of budded roses to throw up
suckers. Iwould advise farmers to stick
to layering and cuttings. Grating
roses is method in common practice
by florists, but not to be recommended
to any one not having suitable green
house accommodation. - Rural NeW
Yorker.