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cross section, that the bark of 

 the scion may fit the stock on 

 both sides (b). This mode is 

 adopted for grafting one sort 

 of garden rose upon another. 

 In grafting upon the dog- 

 rose, the same practice is fol- 

 lowed, with this addition, that 

 a shoulder is very often made 

 to the scion (c), so as that it 

 may rest with greater firmness 

 upon the stock; such stocks 

 being often employed as stan- 

 dards, and therefore more exposed to wind. 



We may add here, as information communicated to us 

 by Mr. Calvert of Rouen, that it is the general practice to 

 form the wedge in a part of the scion where there are no 

 buds {d\ but that he adopts a contrary practice, and finds 

 that a bud on the wedge part of the scion {e) greatly contri- 

 butes to the success of the graft. By taking care to have a 

 bud on the lower part of the scion, Mr. Calvert has even 

 been successful in grafting roses by the whip or splice me- 

 thod {Jig. 57.), which, without a bud on the lower part of the 

 scion (a) very often fails, but with a bud (b) fails very 

 seldom. 



Dr. Van Mons goes on to say, that the 

 grafts are tied with fine bass, made water- 

 proof, by pressing it first through a solution 

 of white soap, and next through one of alum ; 

 a neutral compound being thereby formed, 

 insoluble in water. The ligature is covered 

 with a coat of marly clay, mixed with 

 old slaked lime, and moistened with white 

 of egg beat up with four or five parts of' 

 water. This material is applied with a brush, 

 dog-rose, a white mastic made of Burgundy pitch, white wax, 

 and boiled turpentine, with or without a little size, is used. 

 Black mastic, by imbibing the heat more powerfully than 

 white, soon melts and runs off. — In Britain, where the sum- 

 mers are not quite so hot as in Flanders, common grafting 

 clay may be used. 



" The rose may be budded in spring, if the buds are extracted with a 

 small portion of wood adhering to them. For this purpose, scions are cut 

 before winter and stuck into the ground, till the moment when in spring 

 the bark of the stock will run. To prepare the bud, we make, firstly, a 



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