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ARBORETUM AND FKUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



three cuttings at the commencement. (Gard. Mag., vol. vi. p. 428.) Plants 

 raised in this manner flower almost immediately, and continue producing fresh 

 blossoms throughout the whole summer : they are admirably calculated for 

 being planted in groups in mixed flower-borders, and treated as herbaceous 

 plants, as recommended p. 800. ; and, when R.i. odorata is used, a few patches 

 of it will perfume an entire garden. 



JB'j/ Budding. This is a very general mode of propagating the rose, and is 

 almost always adopted when it is to be grown as a standard, Mr. Rivers is 

 decidedly of opinion, that roses never bloom so finely as when budded ; and 

 that the most proper and durable stock is R. canina, with its varieties ; while 

 R. arvensis is, perhaps, the worst. The operation of budding, in France, is 

 performed at any time, from February to September ; but principally, as in 

 England, during July and August. When performed in February, a portion 

 of the wood is taken off" along with the bud, and a cavity of the same shape 

 is made in the stock to receive it; so that this mode of budding partakes 

 much more of the nature of grafting than any of the other modes. 



The rose is also budded in April, by removing the bark only, in the same 

 manner as in summer; and this is wliat the French call budding a I'ce'dpous- 

 sant (with the pushing eye) ; while the ordinary summer budding is called bud- 

 ding « f ceil dormant (with the sleeping eye). For the mode of budding with 

 a portion of the wood attached, mentioned above, we are not aware that the 

 French have any specific name ; but we shall take the liberty of calling it 

 niche budding, or notch budding, and the other two kinds spring budding 

 and summer budding. 



Mche Budding. The rose may be budded, in February or March, in the 

 following manner : — To prepare the bud, a transverse cut is made into the 

 wood, a little below an eye (Jig. 338. a) ; which incision is met by a longer cut 

 downwards, commencing at a 538 



short distance above the eye, b ; 

 care being taken that a portion of 

 wood is removed with the bark, 

 as shown at c. This bud, with a 

 portion of wood attached, is in- 

 serted in a niche in the stock, 

 made as nearly as possible of the 

 same size as that left in the scion 

 by the removal of the bud c, as shown at g. 



the principal thing to be attended to is, to bring the horizontal 'edges of the 

 base of the niche in the stock, and those of the bud which is to fit into it, into 

 the most perfect contact possible ; because the union is produced, not, as in 

 common summer budding, by the junction of the soft wood of the stock with 

 the rudiment of the soft wood on the inside of the bark of the bud, but by the 

 junction of soft wood with soft wood, as in common grafting. Dr. Van Mons 

 recommends the cut, or niche, in the stock to be made where there is already 

 a bud; making the horizontal cut through the base of the bud. (See Gard. 

 Mag., vol. ii. p. 193.) 



Spring Budding. When the rose is to be budded in spring, Dr. Van Mons 

 recommends the scions to be cut oiF before winter, and stuck into the ground 

 till the moment in spring, generally about the end of April or the beginning 

 of May, when the bark of the stock 539 



will separate freely from the wood : 

 the operation of budding may then 

 be performed in the usual manner, 

 with the slight modifications, in re- 

 spect to future treatment, given in 

 the following directions by Van 

 Mons. The bark of the stock, as 

 early in spring as it will separate 

 from the wood, being cut like an 

 inverted T, as shown at d mfg. 539., the horizontal edges of this cut in the 



In placing the bud on the stock, 



