HERB - Getting Rose Cuttings

[Warren & Meredith Harmon]

Greetings!

>    I have tried for two years now to get starts off a friend's very old
pink 
>climbing rose. I haven't a clue of it's name, nor does he.  It came with
his 
>house, which is in an older neighberhood.   Seems like no luck again
this 
>year, though one of the starts isn't totally shot just yet, so I'm
holding 
>out hope!  I have had luck starting roses from cuttings in the past.  
>Got any suggestions?  

August.  That's the month when you should take rose cuttings (well, what
my grandmother-of-the-green-body says!  ;-)   When you're ready to take
slips, cut off a portion between a foot and two feet long off the parent
bush.  Cut pieces off this that are between 4 and 6 inches long, and
plant them in a sunny spot under a mason jar.  Do five or six of these -
about two will catch.  Water every other day, but don't over or under
water (if the ground is damp, for instance, don't water, but if it's dry,
make sure to moisten the ground around it).

Good luck!  I have an eye on what is probably the same species up here!

- Caro (Carowyn Silveroak / Meredith Harmon)
"Everyday herbs of sickroom and kitchen are known as simples. Granny's
Herbs weren't
simples. They were complicateds or they were nothing. And there was none
of the
airy-fairy business with a pretty basket and a pair of dainty snippers.
Granny used a
knife.  And a chair held in front if her."    -Terry Pratchett

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