DAHLIA ECONOMY. Ill 



headed standard Rose in a shorter time than hy any other method. 

 I am aware that grafts frequently succeed and flower, but as they 

 often fail to grow, and do not always flower, or make a good head 

 the same season, I consider my method preferable. It may also 

 prove a novelty to some of your readers, for I do not recollect seeing 

 it recommended by any author. 



So soon as the plants indicate the circulation of sap, I begin to 

 take off the head of the stock at the proposed height, bending it so 

 that the plant designed to form the head is brought close to the top 

 of the stock. I pare from the stem two or three inches of the bark, 

 with a portion of the wood, at the most convenient part for forming 

 the junction, after which the stock is neatly made to correspond, and 

 in such a manner that the [part where the union is intended to take 

 place is very little increased in size. Tonguing should be avoided 

 since it offers no advantage, and often serves to weaken the union. 

 They should be bound together with tape or good matting, and 

 covered with a little moss, which should be kept damp. Should the 

 stock be very tall, or weakly, the union of the parts would be 

 strengthened and accelerated by making a small slit in the stock, 

 and causing it to dip in the. ground, or in a pot of earth placed for 

 the purpose. The slit will heal, and throw out roots, which will 

 support the head considerably ; and after the head and stock are 

 united, they may be pared off without the place being seen or the 

 least injury being done. By this mode a good head is obtained at 

 once. 



ARTICLE X. 



DAHLIA ECONOMY. 



UY J. C, OF SHEFFIELD. 



As we have reason to fear, from the peculiar character of the times, 

 that then: is a certain class of the multitudinous readers of your perio- 

 dical whose pecuniary exigencies at present will not admit of their 

 adopting into their collection the many beautiful and new varieties of 

 Dahlias which have of late, and are still making their debut into the 

 floricultural world, and whose garden limits also will not afford 

 their occupying a large portion of valuable soil in their culture; as 

 such probably are the restrictions of many in cultivating the Dahlia, 



