Du Cane, Florence, Du Cane, Ella · London, A. & C. Black · leaf 41
ground, covering with a few inches of fine soil;but the Madeira gardeners adopt a different system,anyway, with regard to their roses. The branchfor layering is not chosen near the ground, butoften at a height of from two to four feet. Thechosen branch is passed through the hole at thebottom of a… … PORTUGUESE GARDENS 19 an upward slit made in the ordinary way, and thepot is then filled with soil. In twoi^ or three monthstime, I was assured, the branch would be well rootedand ready to be transplanted to its fresh quarters.It seemed a simple method of increasing rose-trees,which, as a rule, in…
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