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is the cleft, and also the top of the stock, with 

 grafting-wax, and plunge in gentle heat, as re- 

 commended foi^ whip-grafted roses. Grafting- 

 pitch must alone be used. If the grafts are small, 

 this is a very nice mode, but difficult to describe ; 

 and the same result may be obtained by rind- 

 grafting,* a very neat method. Before this opera- 

 tion the stocks must be placed in the forcing- 

 house for a few days, till the bark will run, i.e. 

 part readily from the wood ; the top of the stock 

 must then be cut off cleanly, and without the least 

 slope ; an incision, as in budding, must then be 

 made through the bark from the crown of the 

 stock downwards, about one inch in length, which 

 can be opened with the haft of a budding-knife ; 

 directly opposite to this incision a bud should be 

 left, if one can be found, on the stem of the stock; 

 the graft must then be cut flat on one side, as for 

 whip-grafting, and inserted between the bark and 

 wood, bound with bast, or cotton twist, and covered 

 with grafting-wax. In March this may be done 

 with young shoots of the current season from the 

 forcing-house ; they must be mature : as a rule, 

 take only bloom shoots that have just shed their 

 flowers these are always ripe. To those who love 

 roses, I know no gardening operation of more in- 

 terest than that of grafting roses in pots in winter ; 

 blooming plants of the Perpetual Roses are made 



* The best stocks for this kind of grafting are the Kosa 

 Manetti. 



