904 ON WILD ROSE STOCKS FOR BUDDING UPON. 



only way of preventing any consequences which are likely to arise from 

 this season. Where this cannot be effected, however, the only way is 

 to change the soil entirely, and to substitute fi'esh from another part of 

 the garden ; I have seen three inches of the top soil of an onion bed, 

 as well as soil from the potato ground, used with good effect, the ground 

 having been enriched by manure. But I should not advise soil from 

 the potato ground to be used, as there is a disease in some Tulips simi- 

 lar to that affecting the potato crop. All soil ought to be well exposed 

 to the sun and air, and should be very frequently turned over; the 

 greatest losses have arisen in collections where soil of the previous 

 year has been employed, thus showing the necessity of changing it 

 every year. I am now, liowever, giving advice that I do not strictly 

 follow ; I am only enabled to change the soil of three beds eighteen 

 yards long ; the other three are upwards of four feet deep, and I re- 

 move the earth from three to four feet in lengtli, and the width of the 

 bed, trenching it and bringing fresh soil to the top. If the bed is 

 intended for breeders, I manure it, and turn it over twice or three 

 times, and sow it over with turnips ; but if for broken varieties, I keep 

 turning it over until planting time. This plan I have followed some 

 years. 



ON WILD ROSE STOCKS FOR BUDDING UPON TO 

 FORM STANDARD ROSES. 



BY AN EXTENSIVE PROPAGATOR. 



Considerable attention is now paid to the cultivation of the Rose, 

 particularly as standards, in order to form that very ornamental 

 appendage to the lawn and shrubbery ; and though I am not a nursery- 

 man, I annually propagate a great number. My efforts have been 

 very successful, and I am tlierefc.e induced to send the particulars of 

 my procedure. For tlie forthcoming number I now transmit my mode 

 of treatment relative to providing stocks for budding upon, it being 

 the season to procure tiiem, &c. 



Selection of Stocks. — Any time from the end of Qctober to tlie 

 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, busliy-growing kind, which has a red bark, and a small 

 roundisli fruit ; this I find does not answer near so well as the others, 

 the buds not taking so freely, nor, if they take to uniting at all, do 

 tliey grow so kindly afterwards. 



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

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

 would admit. This attention is necessary in order to get some fibrous 

 roots ; and, after all, it will often occur that not a single fibrous root 



