CHAPTBE VIII 



PROPAGATION 



Budding is so much the most important mode of 

 propagating Eoses, that it naturally occupies the 

 first place. We will suppose that a goodly supply 

 of stocks— briar standards, cuttings, and seedlings, 

 and manetti cuttings — have been planted during the 

 winter as described in the last chapter, and com- 

 menced their growth in the spring. Do they need 

 any special care till the time for budding arrives? 

 If they do, they very seldom get it ; but the Eosarian 

 who intends, and is able, to do everything thoroughly, 

 to promote all that is useful to his Eoses, and war 

 against all that is hurtful, may find some useful 

 work here. During the grub and caterpillar season 

 in April and May he will give occasional turns of 

 examination and handpicking to the wild growth on 

 his stocks, besides the systematic and close search 

 which he will make on his Eose plants. It is true 

 the wild growth will battle through the insect 

 attacks, and there is no bloom to be injured; but 

 some check at least will be experienced from these 

 causes by the stocks, and if the insects are allowed 

 to fulfil their course they will breed and increase, 



