THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN. Ill 



PROPAGATION 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 roses may be made in 

 three months. 



A neighbouring amateur has been very fortunate 

 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 hot-bed, 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 Feb- 

 ruary with much success. 



