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to get well-established before they start into active growth in the 

 spring. 



The following is a selection of the best varieties in their several 

 colours : — Cardinalis, Distinction, Excellent, Garland, Glitter, Match- 

 less, Mulberry, Nonsuch, Peach-blossom, Progress, Buby, Theodosia. 



HOME-GROWN BRIERS EOR BUDDING NEXT SEASON. 



BY THE EEY. E. POCHIK. 

 Sileby Vicarage, Loughborough. 



j]OT very long ago some over-cautious person ventured to 

 predict that, such was the growing rage for roses, the 

 country would soon be stripped of briers. The Manetti 

 and other stocks, of course, considerably relieve the 

 demand for briers ; but, without going into the ques- 

 tion of t eir respective merits, the brier is at least necessary for 

 tea-rose budding. 



And I should be glad to ease the mind of the cautious gentleman 

 alluded to, and also make brier-getting a simple thing to amateurs, 

 and even nurserymen ; for I have found many of the latter who not 

 only were unacquainted with the method I will suggest, but actually 

 would not believe it. 



Put in the ground as thickly as you can, at this time of the year, 

 cuttings of the ripe wood of the brier ; cut out all the buds that 

 will be covered with the soil, and nest year you will have plenty of 

 dwarf brier stocks fit for budding on. 



This is no experiment ; I have done it year by year ; and, in 

 proof of what I say, I may add that on brier-cuttings which I put in 

 the ground in the autumn of 18G5, I budded in the summer of 

 1866, and have shoots of roses on them eight feet high this year, 

 with excellent roses that have bloomed better still. Put in cuttings 

 of robust-growing roses ; you thus have rose-blooms if the budded 

 varieties fail, and need not be afraid of suckers. 



These make capital dwarf-stocks for pot-roses. 



I know that this is but a repetition of our Editor's advice about 

 obtaining roses on their own roots, applied to briers, or roses as 

 stocks for other varieties. Indeed, he tells us in his admirable 

 " Rose Book," how he multiplies briers at home for his own uses. 

 Still, as an exhibitor and ardent cultivator of the rose, the foregoing 

 statement of my experience in this practice may be useful, if only 

 as a reminder to rosarians, that now is the season to begin. 



