SOL ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
shortened or cut off, and all those on the lower part of the stock removed, 
the new bud will push in two or three weeks; and will flower the same 
season, if treated as above directed for the shoots produced by buds inserted 
in April. The scion of a rose-tree, Dr. Van Mons observes, is seldom too 
dry for the buds to succeed, provided the shield is inserted with a thin bit of 
wood behind its eye; but when the bark is quite fresh, and full of sap, this 
thin bit of wood is unnecessary. 
Grafting is occasionally employed for propagating the rose, particularly in 
the case of dwarfs. For this purpose, the scions should be collected in March, 
and stuck in a lump of clay, 1 in. deep: the clay should be pressed firmly to 
the ends of the scions, and the mass afterwards bedded in a pot full of earth, 
to prevent the moisture in the clay from 540 
evaporating, but not so as to cover the 
shoots. The pot of scions may then be 
set in any shed or outhouse, that is 
neither very dry nor very damp, for 
three weeks. Theyobject of treating the 
scions in this manner is to retard their 
growth, in order that the stocks may be 
more forward in vegetation than the 
scions. In Flanders, where the cleft 
mode is commonly adopted, care is 
taken that the scion is of the same 
diameter as the stock, as in fig. 540. a a; 
or that the cleft in the stock is made 
sufficiently near one side, to admit of 
the bark of the scion fitting the bark 
of the stock on both of its edges, as shown at 54. In grafting on the dog- 
rose, the same practice is followed, with this addition, that the shoulder c is 
very often made to the scion; care being taken that there is a bud on the 
wedge part of it (d), as shown at e. Whip, or splice, grafting is, also, 
sometimes practised with the rose; in which case, it is essential to 
have a bud left on the lower extremity of the scion, as indicated in 
Jig. 541., which would otherwise die off. This, both in niche budding 
and in grafting, contributes materially to success, on the same principle 
that cuttings and layers are more certain of rooting when they are cut # 
at a joint, than between the joints. The reason is, that the vital prin- { 
ciple is there more powerful; and that the germs, both of buds and 
roots, are, in most plants, confined to the joints of the stems; though 
in some, as in the common elm, they appear to be distributed equally 
over every part of the stem and roots. In making the incision in the 
side of the stock which is to receive the scion that is to be applied in 
the whip, or splice, manner, the knife ought always to be entered at _ | 
the base of a bud, and passed upwards. 541 
The grafts, in Belgium, are tied on with fine bast, which is made water-proof 
by passing it first through a solution of white soap, and next through one of 
alum; a neutral compound being thus formed, which is insoluble in water, 
The ligature is covered with marly clay in the usual manner, or with grafting 
wax. (Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. 192.) 
Stocks for grafting or budding Roses. On the Continent, as well as in Eng- 
land, these are generally procured from the woods and hedges, of an age and 
size fit for immediate use. The best season for collecting them is November ; 
. because they can then be immediately planted; and they will be in a fitter 
state for pushing out roots and shoots the following spring, than if they had 
not been obtained till that season, or even if they had been got out of the 
woods in autumn, and the planting delayed till spring. Stocks, so procured, 
have very few fibrous roots, which renders this attention to their early plant- 
ing more necessary ; though it must be confessed, that roses will grow with 
fewer fibrous roots than almost any other sort of ligneous plant. The best 


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