i8 Roses for Amateurs. 



management. Just as the child is father of the man, so 

 assuredly the proper care of the stock and bud in their early 

 days is the surest guarantee for a good and healthy plant 

 afterwards. 



The process of budding is very simple, although to 

 describe it is not equally so; and now that Dwarf Roses are 

 the rule, and Standards the exception, there is some difference 

 in the method of doing it. Formerly, the bud was inserted 

 in one of the young shoots that the Wild Briar throws out, as 

 near to the stem as possible ; the object now is to put the bud 

 into the main stem of either Manetti, Briar Cutting, or Briar 

 Seedling, as close to the ground as possible just over the root- 

 stock. Indeed, it is a good plan to plant the Manettis 

 shallow and to earth them up like rows of potatoes. On 

 removing the soil when budding-time arrives and the earth 

 is drawn away, the bark will be moist and run much better 

 than if exposed to the drying influence of the atmosphere. 

 The budding consists in simply making two cuts in 

 the bark of the stem, one longitudinal, the other 

 transverse, so as to form a T. This cut must 

 not go deeper than the bark, and, when made, the 

 bark should be gently raised by the flat end of the 

 budding-knife. Now as to the taking of the buds : select a 

 good shoot of the Rose from which to propagate. It should 

 be a good one, with a nice blossom at the end. Cut off all 

 its leaves, leaving a short piece of the leaf-stalk sheltering 

 the bud. The buds should be plump, and should not have 

 started into growth, or they will be comparatively useless. 

 The Rev. E. N. Pochin, in the " Rosarians' Year-Book" 

 for 1880, under the quaint title of "A Buddhist's Idea," 

 very strongly insisted upon this, and urged amateurs not to 

 take, promiscuously, any shoots, but to make a selection he 

 also ridiculed the notion of people saying this was too much 

 trouble, adding that no trouble was equal to the trouble of 

 disappointment. 



