ON GRAFTING AND STRIKING CUTTINGS OF THE ROSE. 63 



ARTICLE V. 



ON GRAFTING AND STRIKING CUTTINGS OF THE ROSE. 



BY MR. GEORGE GELDART, GARDENER, EDLINGTON, NEAR DONCASTEH. 



I beg to forward for insertion in the Cabinet, should you consider 

 them worthy a place, a few remarks which have come under my notice, 

 and a practice in Germany respecting grafting the varieties of Roses, 

 but more particular the Rosa odorata, or tea-scented. As this system 

 is something; different from what is described in the fifth volume of 

 the Cabinet by " Rosa," I thought it probably might be interesting to 

 some portion of the readers of your useful Magazine. As this season 

 of the year affords an opportunity and comfortable employment to 

 those who are fond of experiments, and possess a few choice kinds of 

 Roses, and are desirous of increasing their collection, but who may not 

 be acquainted with this method, I will briefly state how it may be 

 done. I should first state, however, that at this season of the year 

 the system cannot be well performed by any but those who are in 

 possession of a stove or vinery at work, nor even by them if they have 

 not some of the commoner kinds of roses in pots to work the rarer 

 sorts upon. 



The first thing to be successful in this operation is to cause a 

 rpiantity, as may be required, of suckers or layers of the purple 

 Noisette, Boursault, China, or common Dog Rose, to be potted the 

 previous winter or spring ; let) the pots be plunged in the earth in the 

 open garden, watered when required, and all side shoots removed 

 from the stems through the summer. In November, or before Christ- 

 mas, the pots may be taken up and cleaned, the stocks headed down 

 from twelve to thirty inches, as best suits the taste of the operator. 

 They may then be placed under a greenhouse stage, shed, or frame, 

 not in use, and be introduced to a warmer temperature for working 

 when required. When prepared with cuttings of those sorts of Roses 

 desired, which should be the growth of the previous year, some thin 

 strips of matting, a little grafting wax, &c, and the stocks having 

 been excited fur ten days in a vinery or stove, the operation may be 

 commenced. After placing a seat in a convenient part of the house, 

 take the cuttings and, with a sharp knife, cut the scions to proper 

 lengths, viz., two or three inches, according to the distance betwixt the 

 buds, cutting them through at equal distances between the buds. 



