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inserted on a stock. Many varieties, as tion to tliese circumstances insures that 

 IJourbon, Noisette, China, Tea-scented, ' the sap is flowing freely, and avoids a 

 &c., if well managed, will bloom beau- rapid evaporation, so often preventing 

 tifully in the spring and summer fol- i success. But budding may be in spring, 

 lowing. I if the buds are extracted with a small 



Mr. Jos. Baumann recommends the | portion of wood adhering to them. For 

 seeds of the dog rose to be sown in this purpose, scions are cut before win- 

 February, the seedlings, cut back to ' ter, and stuck into the ground till the 

 two eyes, potted in forty-eights next moment when in spring the bark of the 

 autumn ; plunged in a border until early ' stock will run. To prepare the bud, 

 in July ; to be budded at the end of we make firstly, a transverse cut into 

 August; headed down in November; the wood a little below an eye, which 

 potted in thirty-twos; protected in a incision is met by a longer cut down- 

 frame during winter ; started by dung wards, commencing at a short distance 

 heat in January, and the shoots when above the eye, care being taken that a 

 three inches long pinched back to one portion of wood is removed with the 



inch, this being repeated two or three 

 times to form a good head. In autumn, 

 prune and shift to larger pots, to re- 

 main for some years. These stocks 

 produce very enduring and bright flow- 

 ers. Rosa Banksia, herberifolia, brac- 

 teata, and multiflora, do boston Quatre 

 Saisons stocks. 



bark. This bud is inserted into the 

 bark of the stock, which is cut like 

 an inverted y, the horizontal edges of 

 this cut in the stock, and of the bud, 

 must be brought into the most perfect 

 contact with each other, and then bound 

 with waterproof bast, without, however, 

 applying grafting clay. Eight days after 



In budding on the Boursault, and in- the insertion of the bud, the stock is 

 deed on any other rose, an excellent pruned down to the branch, which is 

 mode is, in April, to tongue a strong immediately above the opposite side, 

 shoot, pass it through a forty-eight pot, and this branch is stopped by being cut 

 until the tongue is in the centre, and down to two or three eyes; all the side 

 then press the pot full of a mixture of wood is destroyed, and when the bud 

 rotten dung and sand. It may be bud- I has pushed its fifth leaf, compel it to 

 ded at the time, but whenever done, branch by pinching its extremity ; it will 

 the shoot should be headed down at the ! then flower in September of the same 

 time of budding to within two eyes of year. You may also bud the rose in 



the bud. — Gard. Chron. 



the spring without waiting till tlie bark 



Mr. Glenny recommends the stocks ! separates, by placing the bud with some 

 to be planted in a rich stiflish ground, wood on it, in a niche made in the 

 two feet apart in the row, and three stock, similar to what would be formed 

 feet between the rows, with a stake ' by taking an eye for budding from it in 

 every ten feet, and rods of sufficient the manner above described, and into 

 strength, reaching from one to another, [ which it is fitted exactly with a slight 

 to secure them against the effects of the pressure. It is recommended to make 

 wind. Plant no deeper than just to the cut for the niche where there is al- 

 cover the crown of the roots. When [ ready a bud on the stock ; when placed, 

 growing commences rub off, twice a the bud is then bound with bast and 

 week, all the buds that are not wanted, \ covered with mastic. — Gard, Mag. 

 but let the highest remain, for a stock Grafting. — " The exact time," says 

 six feet high often produces no shoots the best treatise on the 'Tree Rose,' 

 higher than half its height. In the first " for removing the scions from the pa- 

 week of July, the thorns should be re- rent tree, must depend upon the season ; 

 moved from those places on the stocks some time during the first three weeks 

 intended for budding roses. If they be J in February is the usual period. There 

 not taken away, the operation is ren- does not exist an actual necessity for 

 dered needlessly troublesome; and it | cutting the scions until they arc required 

 is best done now as time is thus allowed for use ; but then it will be more diffi- 

 for the bark's healing. The best time j cult to select the numbers recjuired in 

 for budding the rose is towards the end a state fit for use, and there is a greater 

 of July, a dormant eye being employed, ' chance of their going off, if the weather 

 just after a fall of rain, and when no remain cold, or the sap be not imme- 

 strong dry wind is moving. An atten- ] diately supplied. Scions cut when the 



