ON GRAFTING AND BUDDING ROSES. 



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without limbs, and with scarcely a percep- 

 tible diminution in size. The top branches 

 rise 100 feet above the earth. 



On the same farm, I observed a pear 

 TREE, standing fully loaded with pears ; the 

 tree I found by measurement to be 39 fi feet 

 high, and 5 feet in circumference four feet 

 above ground, with a beautiful cone-like 

 top. 



Near the above tree stood an apple 



tree, the seed of which was planted in the 

 year 1800, by the late Mrs. Knoop, which 

 for size, thrift and beauty, I think cannot 

 be excelled. Upon measurement, I found 

 the circumference of the trunk to be 10 

 feet, 11 inches. Height of tree 42 feet. 

 The diameter of the top 69 feet, 3 inches. 

 Transverse diameter 72 feet, 9 inches, 

 covering an area equal to ,-'3 of an acre. 

 Jacob Kisoop. 



ON GRAFTING A^TD BUDDING ROSSS. 



BY DR. J. B VAN MOXS, BELGIUM.* 



For grafting the rose, scions are used of 

 such a thickness that when they are fitted 

 they may equal the stock in diameter; by 

 making the slit short of the axis of the 

 stock, the slenderest scion may be used. 

 The scion is to be cut on both sides, so as 

 to form an elongated wedge, and the back 

 of the stock must be made to fit the graft 

 on both sides ; a ligature is afterwards ap- 

 plied, of fine bass, (matting,) made water 

 proof by pressing it first through a solution 

 of white soap, and next through one of 

 alum. The ligature is finally covered with 

 a coat of marly clay, mixed with old slaked 

 lime, and moistened with white of egg, 

 beat up with four or five parts of water. 

 This material is applied with a hair pencil. 

 The best stocks for this mode of grafting 

 are the shoots of any kind of garden 

 rose. 



We employ, in Flanders, the same mode 

 of grafting with the Dog Rose, only taking 

 the precaution that the cleft be of sufficient 

 depth to allow the out edge of the scion, 



♦ From PioceetJings of London Horl. Society. 



which is immediately above its cut part, to 

 rest firmly upon the wood of the stock. 

 The ligature in this case is of bass; and we 

 cover it with white mastic, made of Bur- 

 gundy pitch, white wax, and boiled turpen- 

 tine, with or without a little white size. 

 Black mastic imbibes heat too much when 

 exposed to the sun. The rose maybe "bud- 

 ded very well in the spring, if the buds are 

 extracted with a small portion of wood ad- 

 hering to them. For this purpose, scions 

 are cut before winter and stuck into the 

 ground, till the moment when in spring 

 the bark of the stock will run. To prepare 

 the bud, we make, firstly, a transverse cut 

 into the wood a little below an eye, which 

 incision is met by a longer cut downwards, 

 commencing at a short distance above the 

 eye, care being taken that a portion of 

 wood is removed with the bark ; this bud 

 is inserted into the bark of the stock, which 

 is cut like an inverted T, thus, X 5 the 

 horizontal edges of this cut in the stock and 

 the bed, must be brought into the most 

 perfect contact with each other, and there 



