24 PICTORIAL PRACTICAL ROSE GROWING. 
or August (a showery period in either month will do) it is ready 
for budding. 
The number of buds to put in must depend, naturally, on the 
number of suitable branches on the top of the Brier stem. If 
there are four, five, or six shoots as thick as a lead pencil, more 
or less, four, five, or six buds may be inserted, one in each. 
Beginners often put the buds in near the tips of the branches: 
this is wrong. They must be inserted as close to the base as 
they can be got. After a wet spell there is no trouble in pre- 
paring the branches, because, with a free flow of sap, the bark 
rises readily. The sharp edge of a knife should be pressed 
through the bark about 14 inches from the base, at right angles 
with the branch. Then the point of the knife should be pressed 
into the bark at the very base, and drawn up the centre of the 
PICTORIAL PRACTICE.—PLAIN HINTS IN FEW WORDS. 
FIG 9.-HOW TO BUD ROSES. 
A, growing shoot : a, b, buds; ce, bud removed; d, bud with pith; e, com. 
mencing to remove the pith; f, bud ready. 
B, stock : g, transverse cut; 4, longitudinal cut; i, bud inserted. 
