66 GRAFTING ROSES. 



Palmyra, rosy pink. 



Queen of Perpetuals, or Palotte picotee, pale blush, cup- 

 ped and perfectly double. 



Scotch Perpetual, pale blush, a profuse and constant 

 bloomer. 



Stanwell, perpetual blush, expanded and very double ; it 

 has much the habit of a Scotch Rose : when bud- 

 ded it is a constant and free bloomer. 



Four season's pale rose, cupped and double. 



White four seasons, nearly white, expanded and double ; 

 but rarely blooms oftener than once in the season. 



Perpetual white moss, white, blooms in large clusters, and 

 when in bud, is very handsome ; but the flower of 

 itself is miserably indifferent, and, moreover, it is 

 not a true perpetual. It is one of those floricultu- 

 ral misnomers expressing what the public would 

 wish it to be, and not what it actually is. 



GRAFTING 'ROSES. 



The operation of grafting, from the pithy nature of the 

 stems of the rose, is more troublesome and seldom succeeds 

 so well as budding, though when the buds inserted the pre- 

 vious summer fail, it is worth while to have recourse to 

 grafting, which may succeed, and thus make up for the 

 failure. The cleft grafting is much practised, especially 

 on the continent of Europe, and is the most successful 

 method. It is necessary that the scion, (or young shoot 

 that is intended to be multiplied,) should be cut from the 

 bush before vegetation commences, and placed in some 

 shaded situation till the time of operation, which will be 

 after the buds begin to swell on the stock, when the head 

 of the stock may be cut horizontally to its desired height, 

 and a slit made in its crown downward one and a half or 

 two inches. The scion should be cut into lengths of two 

 and a half or three inches, and then cutting its lower end 

 into a wedge-like shape, inserting it into the slit of the 

 stock, keeping the back of the stock and scion in contact, 

 which must be held firmly and bound with ligatures of 

 soft bast-mat or worsted, and, in order to render it water- 

 proof, cover it with a paste made of pitch and bees-wax, 



