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with papers upon Entomology, Conchology, Mineralogy, 

 &c., and does not contain its usual portion of Botanical 

 information. Our correspondent, Dr. Harris, has an inter- 

 esting paper describing an African beetle, with remarks on 

 other insects of the same group. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General JVotices. 



French Method of Grajling Roses. — We procure early in autumn stocks 

 that are at least two years old, those of one year old being too thinly 

 wooded, and liable to injury from frost; and we plant them and support 

 them by stakes. In the beginning of February, the cuttings for grafting 

 are cut from those sorts which we wish to multiply, and stuck into the 

 ground, numbered, and opposite the north, in order to retard their bud- 

 ding. 



In March and April we take them up, and graft them on the Dog-Rose 

 briers ; and it is important that this operation should be performed when 

 the sap of the stock brier is in circulation, (which is ascertained by the 

 shooting of the buds.) The operation of grafting, enfcnte (by cleft,) as 

 we term it, is too well known to require explanation. I shall merely re- 

 mark that the stocks which, from the smallness of their diameter, can only 

 bear one graft, should only be split at one side, and that opposite the bud 

 nearest the upper surface of the stock, where it has been cut evenly 

 across. This bud is designed to draw the sap into the upper part where 

 the scion is, and to impart life to it. Two grafts may be placed opposite 

 each other, on stocks of sufficient diameter. Two buds are sufficient to 

 have in any graft, and when this is cut in the proper wedge-form, it should 

 be inserted in such a sloping direction as will bring the lower part of the 

 wedge into contact with the second bark of the stock ; and the lower bud 

 of the graft should evidently be kept on the outside of the slit. Unless 

 the graft be the termination of a branch, its upper part, to which the 

 knife has been applied, Avill require to be protected by a little cement; 

 and, if the Stocks be not sufficiently large to receive the grafts completely 

 and firmly, these ought to be tied and covered at the point of union with 

 cement. Our composition for cement is made of rosin and pitch in equal 

 quantities, with half as much of white wax as of the other ingredients, 

 properly melted and mixed together. 



Grafts thus placed on strong and healthy plants cannot fail, and will 

 form a superb hoad in autumn, if care is taken to pinch them off to the 

 height of from four to six inches, to make them branch. It is also neces- 

 sary not to leave too many buds at the lower part, but those on the top 

 cannot be too numerous. By tliis kind of grafting, a rose tree in full 

 flower may be obtained in six weeks or two months. 



Dog roses, if planted as stocks in pots, should be taken into a green- 



