86 ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE ROSE. 



about to rise in the pot, stir it with a tallow candle until the froth is 

 settled clown. When it has cooled some degrees, lay it on the wounds 

 with a brush to the thickness of a sixpence. 



It will not be out of place here to notice a common error, which 

 almost every body has heard of, and which some few novices in gar- 

 dening receive as a fact — it is, that a Rose budded on a Black Cur- 

 rant tree will produce black flowers. At what period this notion 

 originated it would, perhaps, be difficult to ascertain; but is no very 

 modern idea, for we find it mentioned in the " Maison Rustique," 

 (London, 1600,) where the ecpially probable and practicable method 

 of obtaining a Rose with green flowers, by budding on a Cabbage- 

 stalk, is recommended. Nevertheless, it is true that grafts or buds 

 of one tree will sometimes take upon stocks of a d/flerent genus. Dii 

 Hamel succeeded in budding the Rose upon the Oak ; but the fact, 

 however interesting to the naturalist, and curious, in a physiological 

 point of view, leads to no useful practical purpose, for in the result it 

 is found that, although such buds may take, and even grow freely for 

 a time, they always perish in a few months, and. frequently cause the 

 destruction of the stocks also. Where there is no natural connexion 

 between the bud and the stock, there ever is a, want of conformity in 

 their vessels and juices, which sooner or huer proves fatal to one or 

 both. 



Generally speaking, there is no need for g'j.-afting Roses, the claying 

 part of which is rough unpleasant work. Budding, either in the 

 spring or summer, is a perfect substitute for it. However, for the 

 benefit of amateurs, I will just mention a. mode of grafting which 

 afforded an invalid confined to his house do me amusement, and suc- 

 ceeded completely. He had some Dog Roses grubbed from a copse, 

 with about three inches of the stem preserved to each root. These 

 having been brought into his apartment, uit;h a supply of scions, he 

 grafted upon them a number of Noisettes, .Boxrrsault, and other choice 

 Roses, in the " cleft " and " whip " maimer, after which they were 

 clayed, and planted in a cool frame, so deep as to leave only one eye 

 appearing above the soil. In due time they all shot out, and a large 

 proportion grew vigorously and blossomed abundantly the same year. 

 It should be mentioned, that when the scions began to push, and for 

 some time subsequently, attention was paid to giving air, shading 

 from the sun, and watering them in bright di "v weather. When they 



