RIND-GRAFTING. 1 7 7 



the top of tlie stock, witli grafting-wax, and 

 plunge in gentle heat, as recommended for wliip- 

 grafted roses. Grafting-pitch must alone be 

 used. If the grafts are small, this is a very nice 

 mode, but difficult to describe; and the same 

 result may be obtained by rind-grafting,* a very 

 neat metliod. Before this operation the stocks 

 must be placed in the forcing-house for a few 

 days, till the bark will run, i.e. part readily from 

 the wood ; the top of the stock must then be cut 

 off cleanly, and without the least slope ; an in- 

 cision, as in budding, must then be made through 

 the bark from the crown of the stock downwards, 

 about one inch in length, which can be opened 

 with the haft of a budding-knife ; directly oppo- 

 site to this incision a bud should be left, if one 

 can be found, on the stem of the stock : the graft 

 must then be cut flat on one side, as for whip- 

 grafting, and inserted between the bark and 

 woorl, bound witli bast, or cotton twist, and 

 covered with grafting- wax. In jNIarch this may 

 be done with young shoots of the current season 

 from the forcing-house ; they must be mature : 

 as a rule, take only bloom shoots that have just 

 shed their flowers — these are always ripe. To 

 those who love roses, I know no gardening opera- 

 tion of more interest than that of grafting roses 

 in pots in winter ; blooming plants of the Per- 



* The best stocks for this kind of grafting arc the Rosa 

 Manet ti. 



