so ROSES THAT BLOOIM IN JUNE. 



we have pots made about four inches wide and deep, 

 with a cut in the side wherein we place the layer, 

 and either plunge the pot entirely under ground, set 

 it on the surface, or elevate it as required ', if in the 

 two latter positions, we water it freely every evening 

 and cover it with moss or some other litter, to pre- 

 vent, as much as possible, the sun from affecting it. 

 We also make boxes for the same purpose, wherein 

 to lav shoots from the Standard or Tree Roses. 



PROPAGATION BY BUDDING. 



Budding, within these few years past, has greatly 

 increased in nursery practice, and multiplied the 

 plants to a Avonderful extent ; it is the favourite mode 

 with the French growers, and on the stock which 

 they use, plants will grow for half a century. I have 

 seen them in the neighborhood of Paris, like large 

 trees, with stems six inches in diameter, and heads 

 thirty feet in circumference. To cultivate them in 

 such perfection they use every kind of enriching 

 matter, which they freely apply every year. Almost 

 every rose can be propagated by budding ; indeed, I 

 may say, that every variety can be multiplied in that 

 way, and form handsome plants, when on strong 



