FORETQN NOTICES. 



Budding Roses — Anionp: the many methods for iMKldinp^ roses, I Imve found 

 none answer so well as the following, which I have ado])ted for some time, and 

 which, I think, should be more generally known. The bud for insertion is taken 

 off the shoot very close to the eye; the tip, or part of the bark l)elow the bud, 

 is cut off quite close, to allow the bud to be pushed closer into the stock without 

 l)eiug bruised. It then requires only to be tied above the bud, and a composition 

 applied to exclude the air and keep the bud cool, consisting of two-thirds cow- 

 dung and one-third stiff loam. The bud requires no untying, and gradually 

 grows so closely into the stock as hardly to be distinguished from a shoot, and is 

 not so liable to be blown out or injured. The composition is ai)plied in a liquid 

 state with a small brush. — James Skirving. Doivuham. 



The Cannon Hall Muscat Grape. — If this Grape could be managed so tliat 

 a sufficient quantity of berries could be set on every part of the bunches, and the 

 gangrenous spots prevented on each berry, it would be the finest graf)e in the 

 world, both for size of bunch, size of berry, and rich, vinous, musky flavor. 

 When even in tolerable perfection, I know no grape to equal it. Unfortunately, 

 it is what we call " a bad setter ;" that is, the fertilizing powder is either deficient 

 in quantity, or has no power to cause the seeds to mature. Hence the berries 

 either drop off or are ridiculously small. To prevent, or rather, supply, this de- 

 ficiency, it is advisable to apply pollen (the fertilizing dust), taken from some 

 other variety. The pollen of the common Muscat will answer well, or even of 

 the still more common Black Hambro'. 



The second desideratum, namely, the preventing of the blackish broad spots 

 which often appear on the finest berries, has just been attained by the gardener 

 above mentioned (Mr. Acomb). He says it is caused by an acrid liquor, gene- 

 rated in spots under the outer skin of the berry. Whenever he observes the 

 blister (for it has much that appearance) he opens the skin with a pin's point, 

 and lets out the liquor, which cures it completely, leaving only a small scar. I 

 saw several berries so punctured, and they appeared quite healed. He had prac- 

 tised this for three years with perfect success. Let every grower of this fine 

 Grape try this simple remedy for this destructive disease. I have no doubt he 

 will be equally successful. — T. Appleby. 



Wall Hoses. — The secret of growing roses against a wall might be packed in 

 a lady's thimble. A two feet deep border of strong loam, four or five feet wide, 

 to be as rich as rotten dung can make it ; the border to be thoroughly soaked 

 with soft pond-water twice a week in dry weather, and when the roses are in 

 bloom, to keep them thin in the branches, as if they were peach-trees, and to 

 play the water-engine against them as for a house on fire, from the first appear- 

 ance of insects till no more come. There is a reason for everything under the 

 sun, and the reason for insects attacking roses in general, and those on walls more 

 particularly, is from too much dryness at the roots, causing the juices to be more 

 palatable through the action of the leaves. 



