Propagation
Take soft tip cuttings, during growing period (spring to summer) and use the flowering stem. Cut a 200 mm long piece and remove all but two leaves. 

Layering and budding.
Take hardwood cuttings during autumn.

Additional pruning procedures, Winter 
1) Remove all dead and diseased, and unproductive wood.
2) Cut out all crossing and interfering stems.
3) Open centre of the plant by removing spindly growth.
4) Use the new water shoots to form basis structure.
5) Reduce remaining stems to within 6mm of the buds of the previous year’s growth, facing outwards at a 45º angle sloping away from the bud.
6) Remove thornless suckers from base.

Additional pruning procedures, Summer
1) Remove stems, which have flowered by 2 to 3 buds.
2) Do not defoliate the plant, light prune only, for autumn flowering period.
These plants are long-lived and vigorous.

Botanic information
Leaf: The inparipinnate leaves have 3-9 elliptical leaflets that are up to 40mm (1½in) long and are bronze-green maturing to dark green.

Flower: The crateriform flowers can be single, semi-doubles and double and are available in a wide range of colours and sizes depends on the cultivar. They appear solitary or in a corymb from early to summer to autumn..

Fruit: The pome are commonly called 'hips', and are a small apple shape that is yellow to red in colour. The size of the fruit depends on the cultivar and the small seeds are viable but the plant is commonly reproduced vegetatively.