. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. FIGURE 3 within a greenhouse, cover them with sash to preserve the proper condition of moisture and air exclusion, cut rose branches in armfulls, plunge them at once into a tub of water to prevent wilt- ing, and in this way propagate the beauti- ful roses in tens of thousands. After the young plants are thoroughly established in their pots and inured to the weather, which will require five to six weeks, they may be planted permanently in the gar- den or put into a larger pot, as you desire. Figure 4, reading from left to right: The first is an American Beauty cut
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. FIGURE 3 within a greenhouse, cover them with sash to preserve the proper condition of moisture and air exclusion, cut rose branches in armfulls, plunge them at once into a tub of water to prevent wilt- ing, and in this way propagate the beauti- ful roses in tens of thousands. After the young plants are thoroughly established in their pots and inured to the weather, which will require five to six weeks, they may be planted permanently in the gar- den or put into a larger pot, as you desire. Figure 4, reading from left to right: The first is an American Beauty cutting, four eyes. The second is a typical hybrid tea, four eyes. The third is a two-eye rooted cutting of Bridesmaid, a tea rose. Notice all the foliage is trimmed partly off. Figure 5 is a typical cutting of a hybrid perpetual of summer blooming variety, and shows a four-eye cutting, trimmed ready for the sand. Figure 6 shows a cutting of a tea rose with the top eye or leaf bud too far started. Dis- card all wood where the eyes have started, for they will make unsatisfactory plants. There are certain roses somewhat diffi- cult to propagate by cutting. They do have subjects of this kind we resort to not seem to root readily, so where we layering to increase our stock. Moss roses, sweet briers and the old Persian yellow are some of those difficult to root. Layering is a simple process. Dig the ground around the plant to be oper- ated on and make it as fine and friable as possible. Select a spot near the extrem- ity of a limb, where its last branches or division is, from the underside of the limb make a slanting cut, severing the limb half to two-thirds through, bend the limb to the ground and peg down the slit portion in the mellow soil, using bail- ing wire, bent hairpin fashion, and about six inches long; use one of more of these, and if the limb has a tendency to spring back to its old place weight it down with a brick or stone, or something handy. This layering is best done j
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