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the opposite side to the bud, but beside it, for if the 

 shoot is stiff and grows out at an angle there may be 

 a difficulty in fastening it securely till it has grown 

 some length. 



Extra stout bamboos should be employed for standards, 

 a foot or more, according to the variety budded, higher 

 than the topmost bud. The same stake will thus support 

 the stock and the growing shoot of the Rose. As soon 

 as the bud has fairly started in the standard stocks, the 

 small portion of the wild shoot remaining may be cut 

 away with a clean sloping cut close to the bud. The 

 reason for leaving it is that it may sometimes be found 

 useful in coaxing a bud to start, by letting a wild bud 

 push for an inch or two thus drawing a flow of sap, and 

 if that does not answer stopping it back again. 



These dormant buds that will not begin to grow are a 

 great trial to the standard stock as well as to the patience 

 of the cultivator. The strong roots, equal in balance to all 

 the growth that was removed in November, keep send- 

 ing up full supplies of sap, and the plant will endeavour 

 to get rid of it by making growth in every possible 

 direction, above ground and and below, except sometimes 

 through the one tiny channel where it is desired. Such 

 buds will occasionally start after all, in June or July, or 

 even the following year ; but there is something amiss 

 with them, and they are not likely to form good plants. 



The principal thing to remember of the maiden 

 growth of newly-budded plants is that no search for 

 insects, remedies for mildew or admiration of the 

 glorious blooms should hinder the one care of tie — tie — 

 tie, or all may be lost in a moment. 



Grafting. — This mode of working the Rose upon 

 another stock is so inferior to budding in many ways 

 that it only survives because, with the aid of heated 



