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thereon, for they are doubtless faulty; this, I conceive, would be 

 supplying a very great desideratum in the art, which would he hailed 

 with pleasure by all and serve as an unerring guide to purchasers, 

 old apd young, for the future. I am sorry to find our old favourite 

 Corinthus so meanly considered in. your last number, for I think it 

 may be pronounced, as I have always before heard it, truly a " gem 

 of the first water," as respects every property save one, and that is 

 the faintness of one of its colours, and yet how sweetly does it con- 

 trast with the others ; it shall, however, notwithstanding its threat- 

 ened ejection from the gardens of its enemies by the borders of the 

 limpid Corpiet, still find a resting-place in those of its friends by the 

 shores of Coaly Tyne. 



ARTICLE VI. 



REMARKS ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE ROSE. 



BY T. H. 



The disposition both to oblige and instruct, evinced by the insertion 

 of papers from contributors to the Cabinet, has led me to conclude 

 that you will perhaps find space for a few additional hints on the cul- 

 ture of the Rose ; which, possibly, may prove useful to persons fond 

 of the lovely tribe of Roses. 



All Roses take readily by budding or grafting one upon the other; 

 but it is obviously necessary that free-growing kinds should be worked 

 upon stocks which are likely to keep pace with them ; and luxuriant 

 and slow growers should not be worked together on the same plant, 

 because the former, by absorbing an undue share of sap, would lite- 

 rally starve the latter. 



In budding these shrubs it is of primary importance that the stock, 

 at the time of being worked, should be healthy, free growing, free 

 from knots and excrescences, and in full sap. For if the bark does 

 not rise with facility, owing to a deficiency of that juice, there will be 

 considerable trouble in inserting the bud at all ; and should that 

 difficulty be overcome, the pains would even then be lost, for the bud 

 would almost certainly perish from want of sufficient sap to nourish it. 



The common Dog Rose is the best foundation for standard Roses. 

 Stocks of this species, transplanted out of copses and hedges, any time 

 from the middle of October to the end of November, answer well for 

 budding the succeeding summer. Among the leading points to be 



