240 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



books, but from some neighbor Budhist, who will 

 quickly teach him as much of transmigration as 

 he desires to know. If he learns to make one slit 

 only, so much the better, the transverse cut being 

 quite unnecessary, and liable to cause breakage if 

 too deeply made. 



Select strong buds from your Rose-trees. It 

 requires some little resolution to cut away the 

 cleanest, most healthful wood, but the recompense 

 is sure and ample. Do not expose your cuttings 

 to the sun — a watering-can, with a little damp 

 moss in it, is a good conveyance — and get them 

 comfortably settled in their new homes as soon as 

 it can be done. In a month or so you may 

 remove the cotton; in November you may shorten 

 the budded shoot to 5 or 6 inches from the bud ; 

 and early in April you may cut it close to the 

 bud itself You must now keep a constant super- 

 vision over your budded stock, removing all su- 

 perfluous growth, and having your stakes in 

 position, so that you may secure the growing bud 

 against those sudden gusts which will force it, if 

 not safely fastened, ''clean out" of the stock. 

 These stakes must be firmly fixed close by the 

 Briers, and should rise some 2 feet above them. 

 To this upper portion the young shoot of the 

 Rose, which grows in genial seasons with marvel- 



