180 CULTURE OF THE ROSE. 



France, which owes its origin to a cultivator named Lecoq. A 

 small branch is chosen, which is provided with two buds, one of 

 them being on the upper part, and the other near its larger end, 

 fig. 7. A sidelong sloping cut is made all along its lower half, 

 the upper being left entire. When the scion is thus prepared, its 

 cut side is fitted to the side of the stock under the bark, fig. 6, 

 which has been cut and peeled back, as in fig. 9. It is then 

 bound around with mat-strings or grafting cloth in the usual 

 way. This mode has a peculiar merit ; should the upper bud not 

 grow, the lower one rarely fails, and develops itself as in com- 

 mon budding. 



Cleft and whip grafting is also practised occasionally upon the 

 roots of the Rose, and succeeds very well with some varieties. 

 These modes of grafting can all be more successfully practised 

 on stocks in pots (fig. 8), in green-houses with bottom heat and 

 bell glasses. We have given thus concisely, and we hope clearly, 

 the various modes of budding and grafting with which we are 

 acquainted. They may be sufficient to enable the amateur to 

 amuse his leisure hours, whose success may not, however, entirely 

 meet his expectations. Simple as these operations are, they 

 require a kind of skill, and if we may so call it, sleight-of-hand, 

 which is only attained by constant practice upon a great number 

 of plants. 



