Cutting-grafts as a means to propagate greenhouse roses

A propagation method for rose nursery plants was studied by using a 2-node scion tongue-grafted on to an unrooted stock cutting. Uniform and disease-free nursery plants could be produced efficiently in a short period all the year round.Under greenhouse production trials, such cutting-grafts of ‘Sonia’ on R. multiflora ‘K-1’, R. indica ‘Major’, R. ‘Manetti’ and R. wichuraiana produced flowers of the same number and quality as when budded on to R. multiflora seedling root stock.