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hybrids and the Tea-scented Roses. The stocks 
should be taken up and potted into small pots one 
season before being required for grafting ; they 
can then be plunged out of doors. If potted during 
March and April they will be ready for grafting the 
following November or December. The stocks 
should be taken into the propagating frames a few 
weeks before being required. After they are 
grafted, let them be plunged into the same bottom 
heat as before, and here they should be kept rather 
close and shaded when necessary until the grafts 
have fairly taken and the plants have commenced 
growing, they may then receive a little air or be 
removed to a cooler house or frame. Avoid too 
high a temperature ; the Rose being very impatient 
of heat, should always be forced steadily. A tem- 
perature of 65° to 75° by day, and 55° or 65° by 
nizht should not be exceeded. When watering, do 
not wet the graft, nor allow too much moisture to 
settle near to the junction of the graft; to prevent 
this, a little clay or wax may be placed around the 
junction. With a little attention to these minor 
matters a good practitioner will be as successful 
with this mode of propagating as with more simple 
and generally practised systems of budding. I have 
not spoken of grafting Roses out of doors, nor do I 
recommend the practice ; the chance of success are 
so uncertain that it rarely answers to risk them, 
especially when we have a more safe and certain 
method in the one described above. 
Layering.—This mode of propagating may be 
applied to most of the free-growing Roses, but it is 
