"Carrie B.," Pittsburgh, Pa., asks: "Can you tell me how to raise plants of a rose we value very much ? We know nothing of grafting or budding, but suppose the plant can be raised from slips, though some put in last year did not grow".

[Sometimes cuttings of wood taken before the leaves push, planted in a shady place, but not a dry place, will grow, but more certainly if planted in fall and kept from severe frost. Most lady gardeners, who have no greenhouse, would put these pots of autumn planted rose cuttings in a room window, and get them to do very well. Some amateurs have excellent success by taking the young growth when half mature, and placing them in saucers of mushy sand, and setting them in the full sun. Half ripened wood is generally relied on by florists for rose propagation. If the plants have been grown under glass, cuttings from them seem to root more easily than when grown wholly in the open air. - Ed. G. M].