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PEOPAOATIOX BY OEAFTIXa. 



This may be performed in the forcing-house in 

 January, and in the open air in P'ebruary and 

 March. There are many modes of grafting : 

 those most eligible for roses are the common 

 'whip-grafting,' using clay as a covering, and 

 ^ cleft-grafting,' using wax or pitch : the former 

 is generally the most successful ; and if the stocks 

 are potted a year before being used, strong bloom- 

 ing plants of the Perpetual Roses may be made 

 in three months. 



A neighbouring amateur has been very fortu- 

 nate in grafting roses, merely gathering his stocks 

 from the hedges in January and February, and 

 immediately grafting and potting them after the 

 operation ; in doing so covering the union of the 

 graft firmly with mould, using no clay, so as to 

 leave only three or four buds above the surface, 

 and placing them in a gentle hotbed, in a com- 

 mon garden-frame, keeping them very close. In 

 this simple method of operating I have seen 

 eighteen out of twenty grafts grow ; but, owing 

 to the stocks not being established in pots a year, 

 as they ought to have been, these plants have not 

 made strong and luxuriant shoots the first season. 

 Stocks may be potted in October, if none can be 

 had established in pots : these may be used in 

 January or February with much success. 



