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mon process of budding and grafting. The following sorts are 

 all perfectly distinct : — 



Aubernon, dark rosy red, cupped and very double. 

 Baron Prevost, dark rose, very large, strong growing. 

 Blanche, pure white, cupped, very profuse. 

 Comtesse Duchatel, dark rosy red, large and perfect. 

 Duchess de Nemours, pale rose color, very double. 

 Duchess of Praslin, pale blush, very profuse. 

 Due d'Aumale, rosy crimson, perfect form. 

 Edward Jesse, pale red, a very constant bloomer. 

 General Taylor, bright crimson scarlet, fine. 

 Lane, bright carmine, fine form, and a constant bloomer. 

 La Reine, rosy lilac, very large. 

 Marquis Boccella, pale pink, a profuse bloomer. 

 Prince Albert, rich crimson, large and very double. 

 Youlande d'Arragon, pale rose, large and very constant in 

 bloom j one of the best light-colored sorts. 



There are fifty other sorts could be added to the above, 

 without decidedly varying the color. 



GRAFTING ROSES. 



The operation of grafting, from the pithy nature of the 

 stems of the rose, is more troublesome, and seldom succeeds 

 so well as budding, though when the buds inserted the pre- 

 vious summer fail, it is worth while to have recourse "to graft- 

 ing, which may succeed, and thus make up for the failure. 

 The cleft-grafting is much practiced, especially on the conti- 

 nent of Europe, and is the most successful method. It is 

 necessary that the scion (or young shoot that is intended to 

 be multiplied) should be cut from the bush before vegetation 

 commences, and placed in some shaded situation till the time 

 of operation, which will be after the buds begin to swell on 

 the stock, when the head of the stock may be cut horizon- 

 tally to its desired height, and a slit made in its crown down- 

 ward one and a half or two inches. The scion should be cut 

 into lengths of two and a half or three inches, and then, 

 cutting its lower end into a wedge-like shape, inserting it 

 into the slit of the stock, keeping the back of the stock and 



