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that perhaps fills up the front of a house, with several of 

 these roses. To do this properly, very strong shoots must be 

 selected of the present season's growth, and the buds should 

 be taken from roses of a continuous blooming habit, and of 

 various colours. The dark crimson China is a pretty habit. 

 Some of the hghter varieties of hybrid China may be used. 

 The yellow Noisette will grow beautifully and open freely on 

 the common China, and for the most part, all the small roses 

 on smooth-barked plants will succeed, but the old wood of 

 the China must be cut away as much as possible, excepting 

 the strong shoots that will do for budding at different 

 heights up the house. The common China, which becomes 

 the stock, must be prevented from growing. Budding the 

 small sorts of smooth-barked roses on China stocks is a 

 common practice, and it can be done at all seasons, the 

 China stocks being grown in pots for the purpose, and well 

 established. Many roses which are difficult to grow on their 

 own roots, will grow robustly on Chma stocks, but they are 

 never used for standards ; they are budded as near the sur- 

 face of the soil as possible, and the China thenceforth must 

 be prevented from growing, either out of the old wood or 

 from the root, for it would overpoAver any other. The bud- 

 ding of roses is almost a universal practice among those who 

 love the flower, for a bud or two is so easily procured from 

 a friend, and so rapidly becomes a tree or plant, as to reward 

 us for our pains. 



The budding of fruit-trees, or shrubs, or plants of any kind, 

 is quite as simple, but there is not the same excitement; 

 nobody cares to keep stock by them, and we are so long 

 before we obtaia the result, that it is of a secondary conse- 

 quence. Shrubs or plants that flower are more tempting, but 

 these we know to be done by the trade, and especially on 

 the contiaent. With curious evergreens the grafting is far 

 more general. TVe have by us some curious evergreen oaks 

 preserved for their singular and beautifal foliage, which have 

 been budded on the common oak, and so neatly done that 

 now they have been growing two or three years, the working 

 hardly shows ; indeed, if we had not seen them when the 

 budding was more conspicuous, we should hardly have dis- 

 covered it now. But there is a kind of budding which should 

 be called bud grafting, much more generally in operation 

 with choice plants than either budding or grafting ; this con- 



