ON STOCKS FOR THE TREE ROSE. 251 



ARTICLE III. 



ON STOCKS FOR THE TREE ROSE. 



BY AN EXTENSIVE PRACTITIONER. 



As very considerable interest has been excited in the floricultural 

 class of the community, in consequence of the introduction of the 

 articles on Roses which have appeared in the Cabinet; and as no 

 remarks have been inserted on the mode of forming that most orna- 

 mental appendage to a shrubbery, the. Tree (or, as it is sometimes 

 called, Standard) Rose, I am induced to send some observations upon 

 the formation and culture thereof. They are the result of my own 

 successful practice. An eminent nurseryman, a great Rose culti- 

 vator, gave me the first hints on the subject : and I have pursued the 

 same treatment with satisfaction to myself. In the course of experi- 

 ment I have made some improvement in the practice. I shall, there- 

 fore, send, for insertion in the Cabinet from time to time, the course 

 of treatment I pursue from first to last. 



Selection of Stocks to bud, Sfc, upon. — Any time from the end of 

 October to the middle of February, plants of the wild English Rose 

 are procured. I find, however, that the earlier the better. There are 

 several varieties of stocks to be had: those I prefer being far the best, 

 and of a very upright growth, making shoots nearly half an inch in 

 diameter, and growing several feet high in one season. The colour 

 of such is either wholly green barked, or green slightly tinged with 

 brown. The ripe fruit of both is of a long oval shape. These kinds 

 are generally to be met with in plantations or woods, and occasionally 

 in hedges. There is a spreading, bushy-growing kind, which has a 

 red bark, and a small roundish fruit : this I find does not answer 

 near so well as the others, — the buds not taken so freely, nor, if they 

 take to uniting at all, do they grow so kindly afterwards. 



In getting up the wild stocks, I have always given strict orders to 

 my gardener to get them up with as much length of root as con- 

 venience would admit. This attention is necessary in order to get 

 some fibrous rools ; and, after all, it will often occur that not a single 

 fibrous root will be found upon the main roots. They are, however, 

 very free to grow under either circumstance ; only the former ones 

 afford the advantage of making more and stronger lateral shoots the 

 first season, and also better-placed shoots for budding upon. 



