CHAPTER VIII 
PROPAGATION 
BUDDING is so much the most important mode of 
propagating Roses, that it naturally occupies the 
first place. We will suppose that a goodly supply 
of stocks—briar standards, cuttings, and seedlings, 
and manetti cuttings—have been planted during the 
winter as described in the last chapter, and com- 
menced their growth in the spring. Do they need 
any special care till the time for budding arrives ? 
If they do, they very seldom get it; but the Rosarian 
who intends, and is able, to do everything thoroughly, 
to promote all that is useful to his Roses, and war 
against all that is hurtful, may find some useful 
work here. During the grub and caterpillar season 
in April and May he will give occasional turns of 
examination and handpicking to the wild growth on 
his stocks, besides the systematic and close search 
which he will make on his Rose plants. It is true 
the wild growth will battle through the insect 
attacks, and there is no bloom to be injured; but 
some check at least will be experienced from these 
causes by the stocks, and if the insects are allowed 
to fulfil their course they will breed and increase, 
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