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OPEN FLOWER-GARDEN. 



suitable for tlie purpose. Plants of these in pots 

 should be plunged in sawdust or rotten tan, and 

 set in the most exposed part of the reserve 

 garden during summer, where they may be 

 allowed to flower during June and July, but 

 from the beginning of August till the end of 

 September every flower-bud should be carefully 

 pinched oflT. By the end of October abundant 

 incipient flower-buds will begin to form, after 

 which the plants should be removed to an airy 

 pit or greenhouse, kept near to the glass, but 

 without fire-heat, unless during severe weather 

 in November and December, and then only to 

 the extent of excluding frost. Towards the end 

 of the latter month, and throughout January, 

 abundance of bloom will be produced. 



The following selection, being moderate grow- 

 ers and profuse bloomers, may be offered : Ne 

 plus ultima, Madame Nerard, Madame Margat, 

 Queen, Miss Glegg, Acidalie, Crimson globe, 

 Lelieur, Grand oapitaine, Proserpine, Victori- 

 euse, Phoenix, Persian yellow, Mogador, Duchess 

 of Sutherland, Earl Talbot, Due d'Aumale, La 

 Eeine, Madame Laffay, Prince Albert, De 

 Neuilly, Abb^ Mioland, Clara, Clara Sylvain, 

 Barbot, Bougfere, Madame Gu^rin, Miranda, 

 Turgot, Mansais, Triomphe du Luxembourg, 

 Charles Souchet, Reine des Viorges, Souchet, &c. 



Propagating stocks for roses. — The wild Dog 

 rose of our hedges and copses is no doubt too 

 indiscriminately employed, probably on account 

 of its being the first sort used for the purpose, 

 and also as it is found in great plenty in many 

 places, and requires no previous cultivation. It 

 should be sought for in autumn, and those hav- 

 ing clean straight stems taken up and trans- 

 planted to the reserve garden, where they will 

 be in condition for budding in August the fol- 

 lowing season. As we have elsewhere observed, 

 this stock is the best for strong soils, but much 

 less adapted for light ones than others which 

 will be noticed below ; and as this is an impor- 

 tant matter in successful rose-growing, attention 

 should be paid thereto. It has been recom- 

 mended to bud such stocks prior to their 

 removal, and the process has hence been de- 

 nominated " hedge budding." The practice is, 

 however, in our estimation, much less satis- 

 factory than that of transferring them at once 

 to the reserve garden, where they should be 

 planted in lines 3 feet apart. The process of 

 removal enables the cultivator to reduce the 

 strong and rambling roots, which, when planted 

 in a richer and more congenial soil, send out a 

 profusion of fibrous roots the first season, ren- 

 dering their removal afterwards much more cer- 

 tain, as well as adding to the strength of the 

 plant, in consequence of its greater capability of 

 drawing nourishment from the soil. Stocks, at 

 their first removal, should be cut to the height 

 required, weakly plants to the height of 6 inches 

 or a foot, which will be very answerable for 

 dwarfs, while those for half or full standards 

 should be shortened to from 2 to 4 feet. 

 After planting, the surface of the ground should 

 be mulched over with littery manure, both for 

 enrichment and for resisting drought Hedge- 

 budding is also performed in July or August, and 

 the plants removed to the garden during Novem- 



ber following. In light soils, roses wrought on 

 the Dog rose are seldom long lived, and there 

 are some roses which do not even take well 

 upon it. 



The Celine rose, a very old hybrid Bourbon, 

 makes excellent stocks, especially for roses of 

 the Bourbon or Noisette sections, when planted 

 in a moist rich soil. In preparing stocks, cut- 

 tings of one-year-old wood are taken, and should 

 be cut into lengths of 1 foot each, cutting close 

 under an eye or bud in a transverse direction, 

 but taking the top off immediately above a bud 

 in a sloping manner, removing all the buds ex- 

 cepting the two uppermost, planting them iu 

 rows, leaving only one eye or bud of the cutting 

 above the ground by drawing up the soil around 

 them to that height; this will keep the stem 

 moist, and prevent exhaustion of its sap during 

 winter and spring. Budding should take place 

 during July and August following, at which 

 time the soil should be withdrawn from around 

 the stem, which, from being kept covered till 

 then, will be in excellent condition for receiving 

 the buds : these should be inserted at about 

 from 6 to 8 inches from the surface of the 

 ground. 



Of the Boursault section, the Crimson or 

 Amadis, the Reversa rosa, and the Blush or 

 Rose de Lisle, are the most proper for stocks — 

 the two former, as they never are attacked by 

 mildew ; and the Crimson, in particular, is pre- 

 ferable even to the others, on account of its 

 vigorous growth and abundance of sap. Like 

 the cuttings of the Celine rose, they should be 

 planted early in November in an open and warm 

 part of the reserve garden, and the cuttings 

 treated in the same manner. 



Mr Rivers, a few years ago, introduced the 

 Rosa Manettii from Milan, and has used it most 

 successfully iu his establishment as a stock, pro- 

 pagating them in the same manner as noticed 

 above for the Celine and Boursault sorts. " All 

 the roses," he obsei-ves, " I have budded on this 

 stock have succeeded admirably — above all, the 

 hybrid Perpetuals, which scarcely seem to know 

 when to leave off growing and blooming in the 

 autumn. Indeed, this stock is remarkable for 

 its late growth, for it may be budded during the 

 whole of September. Another excellent quality 

 is, that it never gives any suckers from its roots; 

 and if planted in a stiff loam highly manured, 

 it will, if cut down close to the ground, make 

 shoots in one season 6 or 8 feet in length, and 

 will thus form fine standards. It seems to 

 flourish equally in light and dry, as well as in 

 stiff soils ; and it will be of much value to the 

 rose amateur, who, if the soil of his rose-garden 

 is light and dry, is so often troubled with the 

 numerous suckers thrown up by the Dog rose." 

 Objections have been started against this rose as 

 a stock by some ; the arguments pro and con 

 we need not further allude to than to quote 

 what Mr Paul, who, with Mr Rivers, its advocate, 

 we consider as our highest authority on the 

 subject, says on it : " The Manettii is desirable 

 for hardy kinds when an extremely vigorous 

 growth is desired. It has been recommended 

 for kinds of delicate growth, which do not 

 thrive well on the Dog rose ; but my experience 



