ON GRAFTING AND STRIKING CUTTINGS OF THE ROSE. 275 



ARTICLE VI. 



ON GRAFTING AND STRIKING CUTTINGS OF THE ROSE. 



BY SEN EX. 



I beg to forward, for insertion in the Cabinet, a few remarks which 

 have come under my notice, and a practice in Germany respecting 

 grafting the varieties of Roses, hut more particularly the Rosa odorata, 

 or tea-scented. As this system is something different from what is 

 described in the fifth volume of the Cabinet, 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 

 quantity, 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 

 Christmas, the pots may be taken up and cleaned, the stocks headed 

 down from twelve to thirtv 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 for ten days in a vinery or stove, the ope- 

 ration 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 be- 

 tween the buds. When the sap in the stocks has begun to flow, which 



