204 HEDGE BUDDING. 



way the covered part of the stock increases rapidly 

 in bulk, the sap flows freely through it, and most 

 vigorous and healthy growth is the result. I 

 have observed a peculiarity in this stock worthy 

 of notice ; under certain circumstances, the sort 

 budded on it will entirely overpower its suckers, 

 so that, in a year or two, the plant from the bud 

 will gain the ascendency, and the suckers, with- 

 out being removed, will languish and die. This 

 has occurred here in several instances with stocks 

 planted out for stocks for propagation in a stiff 

 clayey soil ; some of these had dormant buds in 

 them, which had not put forth their shoots with 

 the usual crop of plants, and were thrown on one 

 side as stocks. Now the curious part of the matter 

 was, that immediately these stocks were planted 

 out for stocks in a stiff soil, and so deeply that the 

 dormant buds became slightly covered with earth, 

 they pushed forth most vigorously ; and although 

 the stocks at the same time put forth suckers 

 which were suffered to grow, they have, as may 

 be seen now in most instances, overpowered 

 them, and now form vigorous bushes of Hybrid 

 Perpetual Roses from three to six years old. 



To what a great extent, in this respect, it differs 

 from the Dog Rose stock will be at once apparent 

 to rose-loving readers : for we all know that the 

 Dog Rose carries on a fierce war with its bud or 

 graft, and, unless most carefully attended to, 

 destroys it by its suckers in one season. A method 



