80 G.VRDEXIXG FOR PLEASURE. 



figure 35. The portion of bark attached to the bud that 

 projects above the horizontal cut in the stock is cut 

 off, and the tie applied. The tying material should be 

 RiifRa bark, though cotton wick or other soft material 

 will do. The engraving, figure 36, shows where to place 

 the tie ; but when of Raflfia bark it quite covers the wound 

 and excludes water and prevents drying. In two or three 

 weeks after the bud has been inserted, it will be safe to 

 remove the tying, and if the operation has been performed 

 on a Rose in June, it will often make a considerable growth 

 the same season ; but if done in August or September, it 

 usually lies dormant until the next spring. All shoots 

 upon the stock below the bud must be rubbed off, both 

 in budding and grafting, and when the bud that has 

 been inserted starts to grow, the stem above it must also 

 be cut back just above, so that the inserted bud, which now 

 becomes the plant, may get the full benefit ot the root. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

 TREAT^klENT OF TROPICAL BULBS, SEEDS, ETC. 



Any information that can be given in an article sliort 

 enough to be suitable for amateurs on a subject so ex- 

 tended as this must be confined to a few well-known and 

 leading plants most valued for general cultivation. The 

 Tuberose is one of the tropical cla<s of bulbs, requiring 

 at all times a high temperature. Details of culture will be 

 found in the Chapter on Bulbs, Fall or Holland, Page 44. 



Some of my readers have seen or cultivated the bulbs 

 known as fancy or spotted-leaved Caladiums. There are 

 probably no plants that assume such varied and wonderful 

 markinixs of the leaves as these, so that when first seen it 

 is difficult to believe that such painting is the work of Xa- 



