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grafting can be rind-grafted or budded. Take your 

 briar by the left hand, and with a sharp pair of seca- 

 tiars cut off the head at a point two inches above the 

 soil level. Then with a sharp budding knife try and 

 get a clean cut on the slope in one stroke, or, if un- 

 successful, pare it down to a clean level sloping sur- 

 face. Then cut off from your Rose shoot a section 

 about an inch to two inches long containing a bud ; 

 and here also try and obtain a clean, level, sloping 

 surface equal in length to that of the stock ; then place 

 the section in position so that the two surfaces come 

 together, the bark of the scion meeting exactly the 

 bark of the stock ; tie firmly with raffia. In tying the 

 raffia place one end pointing downwards, allowing 

 enough to tie a knot at the finish; then wind round the 

 briar and shoot downward until the union is covered, 

 and end off with a half-hitch and tie once. If the graft 

 fails to take, make a fresh cut and try again. 



Rind-Grafting. — Now, before we deal with the 

 next step it is most necessary to refer to another 

 method of stock-increasing, namely, that by rind- 

 grafting. It will be found that many a shoot tapers off 

 to such a slender size that the chance of finding a 

 briar small enough to fit the section cut off is rare. 

 Hence, if we wish to make the most of every eye, it 

 will be found necessary to adopt this other method. 



Cut, therefore, a briar horizontially instead of 

 sloping downwards; then, having prepared the sHoot 

 cut it as before ; cut the rind of the briar, only as 

 done in budding, then insert the shoot and tie in as 

 before. After grafting, bring all your stocks into the 

 greenhouse, and, if possible, place the whole batch into 

 a propagating frame. Keep your house at an even 

 temperature of not over 60 degrees, and let the 

 atmosphere be a moist one. 



Should you not possess a propagating frame, then 

 keep your house well shut up',~avoiding excessive ven- 

 tilation and all draughts. It can always be taken that 

 a close house is like a propagating frame; thus so long 

 as the temperature is maintained and but very little 



