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just so long as we do so will disappointment follow our 

 efforts. There is a greater difference in the climate than 

 the degrees of latitude and longitude would naturally lead us 

 to imagine — and, sooner or later, this fact will be learned — to 

 the interest of all. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. 1. General Notices. 



Transplanting Budded Eoses. — Tt is well known to all rose-growers, 

 that those varieties which are budded or grafted on briars are apt to degen- 

 erate unless removed every three or four years. In my own experience, 

 this has especially been the case with the hybrid perpetuals, many of which 

 have become more sickly every year, and some have died off, although, 

 when planted, they were vigorous and healthy. The causes of this are 

 probably numerous, arising from the unnatural, or, more properly, artifi- 

 cial union of the stock and the graft, and the little attention generally paid 

 to congeniality of habit when performing the operation. But, as far as the 

 evil admits of correction by transplanting, the cause appears to lie in the 

 soil or the state of the root; and, when taking up a large number last week, 

 I particularly observed the condition of that organ, and its relation to the 

 state of the tree. I found, in most cases, that the unhealthy subjects had 

 very few root fibres, but, in the place of them, a mass of wood, often in a 

 rotten state, fully accounting for disease in the tree. It was evident that, 

 in my case, the briars had been improperly prepared in the first instance, 

 old stools having been used, with no root fibres, and incapable of producing 

 any. Where this was not the case, the rough mode of digging them from 

 their native hedges had left fractures and wounds, accounting for a want of 

 health. The mode of procuring briars, as often practised, thus becomes 

 the source of injury to the budded head in future years, and cannot be too 

 much reprehended. Men are engaged to get them at so much per hundred, 

 and they are hacked up in the roughest manner. To have briars in a prop- 

 er state for grafting or budding, they should be grown for the purpose, 

 that a young stem may proceed from a root of its own age, and not from 

 one become venerable from twenty summers. 



The cause now mentioned, and the necessity for a change of soil, render 

 it desirable to remove budded roses, and I will detail the plan I adopted 

 myself, and am still pursuing. Choose your new situation as remote as 

 convenient from the old one, and well dig the soil to the depth of eighteen 

 inches, incorporating with it a large portion of well rotted manure. I em- 

 ployed night-soil and ashes, which have been mixed for twelve months, 

 but should have preferred the dung of an exhausted cucumber bed ; although 

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