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the bud. Budding is preferable to grafting for the Rose, 

 and is much practised by Florists, as every eye will make 

 a tree; by this process the most scarce species of the Rose 

 may be propagated faster than by any other method, and 

 sent to all parts of the world. It will also be found by ex- 

 perience that some varieties of the Rose succeed better by 

 being budded on another stock than on its own ; we have 

 an instance of this in the white Bath Moss and. the yellow 

 Persian Rose. 



WATERING OF PLANTS. 



Watering of plants is one of the most essential operations 

 to be performed, and easily done ; but being done correctly 

 is quite another thing, for to water plants correctly is one of 

 the principal means of invigorating them, and lies at the 

 foundation of their health. From the manner some plants 

 are watered it is a wonder they are kept alive ; they can 

 exhibit from one year's end to another but a very meagro 

 appearance. Pot plants (plants cultivated in pots) should 

 never be kept in a saucer unless the object be to keep the 

 surplus water from the carpet or the floor ; but it frequently 

 occurs that when kept in saucers they are watered by that 

 means ; such a plan should not be adopted unless the plant 

 be a swamp plant, like the Hydrangea Calla sethiopica, &c. ; 

 though there are times when some plants will admit of such 

 a course it will require experience for its successful practice. 

 j In watering plants we should, imitate nature as closely 



