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Rooting cuttings - Red twig dogwood and Mockorange

Here I am again. But now I want to know about starting new plants from a
couple of shrubs. 

My dwarf mock orange is doing very well in this it's 4th year. I will be
cutting out older stems after bloom this year. Can I layer this by
pinning down a young branch and covering it with soil? Do I scarify or
scrape the side facing down into the dirt? How would I do cuttings of
it? Soft wood or hard wood cuttings.

My sil has a lovely cornus alba variegated shrub that I would like to
take some cuttings of. Again, soft or hard and what do I do.

Some of my conditions. I have two cold frames on the south side of my
house that are shaded by trees in the summer. I also have a root cellar
for storing fruit, potatoes onions etc. It stays very cool, damp and
dark during the winter w/o freezing. I've read somewhere about taking
hardwood cuttings of some woody shrubs, tying them into a bundle and
burying them in damp sand for the winter in a cool, dark cellar untill
spring. By then they are suppose to have developed a callus and can be
placed into a rooting mix to root in the spring. Do you put rooting
compound on them? Before storage or before placing into rooting mixture.
And what is a good mix? Peat and sand is what I've read about. What
about soiless planting mixes?

Thanks

Ann B.
Montana Gardener
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