116 THE HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE. . 



To those who think the trouble of budding and 

 re-budding too much, I may point out a more 

 simple method, which I extract from the 'Grar- 

 dener's Annual for 1863.' (Longmans.) 



'Have some dog-rose stocks gathered from 

 the woods and hedges in November, December, or 

 January. Every stock selected should be of only 

 one year's growth, a young shoot of the preceding 

 season's growth. They should be planted in a 

 deep rich soil, and some manure placed on the 

 surface round their stems. In spring and early 

 summer the young shoots should be removed from 

 the lower part of their stems within, say, a foot 

 of the ground, and all the remaining shoots suf- 

 fered to grow as they list. In the months of 

 July and August they may be budded after 

 the following mode : Take some free-growing 

 beautiful Hybrid Perpetual, and place one bud in 

 the stem, mind, of your stock about nine inches 

 from the ground, and then on the opposite side of 

 the stem place another bud and so on, shifting 

 sides to about three, or four, or five feet in height. 

 When these buds break out in the following May, 

 be sure and pinch in closely the three or four 

 buds at the top of the stock, or they will greedily 

 drink too much of the precious sap. A rose- 

 lover must imagine the great beauty of such a 

 pillar of Empereur de Maroc or Senateur Vaise ; 

 if his constitution be not strong, the sight might 

 make him die of a rose in aromatic pain.' 



The most free-growing kinds, such as Jules 



