428 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



If budding is done in August or later, rewrap in about ten days, and let the 

 bud and stock alone until spring, then cut off the stock above the bud, and 

 encourage growth. The bud will not start till the following spring, though its 

 union with the stock can readily be distinguished by its plump and fresh 

 appearance. 



Buds of different roses, red, white, 

 crimson, etc., may be inserted in a 

 single stock, thereby producing a rose- 

 tree of many colors. 



It is not necessary to bud on the 

 wild rose only, but if you have some Fig. (d) 1026.— 



other single rose you wish to improve, insert a bud or buds of some nice 

 variety, and I think you will be pleased with the result. 



Every lady reader should try this mode of propagating, for it is very simple, 

 and easily done, and you can have a rose ready for bloom in the same length 

 of time it would require a cutting to form roots. — Farm and Fireside. 



THE ASH HEAP AND HEN MANURE. 



The horticulturist should make an economical disposition of two things 

 that are generally regarded as household nuisances — the ash heap and the 

 droppings of the poultry house. There is nothing that will lighten and loosen a 

 a stiff soil so quickly as coal ash siftings. Mr. Allen, the celebrated bulb 

 culturist, of Long Island, thinks there is nothing so good in its mechanical 

 effects and he uses large quantities on his lily beds. Take your ashes every 

 morning as they come from the stoves and before they get wet, sift them through 

 a coal sifter, the coarse part you use on your walks about the premises ; the 

 fine, dust-like portion you carry to the henhouse and scatter it over the drop- 

 pings. It will absorb the gases that arise, keep the floor dry and the air pure — 

 a sort of dry earth system. Every few weeks when the weather permits, the 

 contents of the hen house are wheeled out and spread as a top dressing over 

 the beds of perennials. Will it do any good ? Yes, four-fold. 



Firstly, it has charitably aided that ash heap to lose its existence; secondly, 

 your hens shall feel better and your labors shall be rewarded with more eggs ; 

 thirdly, it does the soil of that flower bed good by loosening it, and fourthly, it 

 does the plants good by feeding them. Why, next June the pseonias will fairly 

 clap their hands for joy. Did you ever dream that a four-fold blessing lay 

 concealed in your ash heap ? — Pa. Hort'l Soc. Report. 



