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PKOPAGATION BY GRAFTING. 



THIS may be performed in the forcing-house in 

 January, and in the open air in February and 

 March. There are many modes of grafting: 

 those most eligible for roses are the common 

 'whip-grafting,' using clay as a covering, and 

 ' cleft-grafting,' using wax or pitch : the former 

 is generally the most successful ; and if the stocks 

 are potted a year before being used, strong bloom- 

 ing plants of the Perpetual Koses may be made in 

 three months, 



A neighbouring amateur has been very fortu- 

 nate in grafting roses, merely gathering his stocks 

 from the hedges in January and February, and 

 immediately grafting and potting them after the 

 operation ; in doing so covering the union of the 

 graft firmly with mould, using no clay, so as to 

 leave only three or four buds above the surface, 

 and placing them in a gentle hotbed, in a common 

 garden-frame, keeping them very close. In this 

 simple method of operating I have seen eighteen 

 out of twenty grafts grow; but, owing to the 

 stocks not being established in pots a year, as they 

 ought to have been, these plants have not made 

 strong and luxuriant shoots the first season. Stocks 

 may be potted in October, if none can be had 

 established in pots : these may be used in January 

 or February with much success. 



