84 ROSES THAT BL00:M in JUNE. 



PEOPAGATION BY BUDDING. 



Budding, within these few years past, has 

 greatly increased in nursery practice, and multi- 

 plied the plants to a wonderful extent ; it is the 

 favorite mode with the French growers, and on 

 the stock which they use, plants will grow for half 

 a century. I have seen them in the neighborhood 

 of Paris, like large' trees, with stems six inches in 

 diameter, and heads thirty feet in circumference. 

 To cultivate them in such perfection they use 

 every kind of enriching matter, which they freely 

 apply every year. Almost every rose can be pro- 

 pagated by budding; indeed, I may say that 

 every variety can be multiplied in that way, and 

 form handsome plants, when on strong stocks, in 

 one year. For some of the kinds it is the only 

 resort, as they are difficult to manage by either 

 layering or grafting. Some of the Perpetual 

 Roses rarely form roots when laid, but bud freely. 

 Budding may be easily described so as to be un- 

 derstood by the initiated ; but as it is to the un- 

 practised hand that we pretend to give our feeble 

 instructions, we will endeavor to omit no detail, 

 even at the risk of being too minute. The opera- 



