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twigs (see p. 109). When they have grown 6 inches long 

 they should be pinched, and especially if they are very slender 

 and drawn, or if there be only one. They will soon become 

 t>ushy and will also resist the wind better. This allows us to 

 suppress the other shoots which spring from the stem, and 

 some of which we might be tempted to utilise in the case of 

 a solitary graft. Branches should only be retained for a 

 second budding if the first graft appears to be tender, and 

 their vitality should be concentrated by a prudent pinching or 

 disleafing as soon as they have grown 10 inches long. 



Budding on the Manetti. — The Manetti is propagated by 

 cuttings. It is cut back to obtain stocks for standards, and 

 these should not be budded for at least two years afterwards. 

 "When the stock is budded too young or too thin, the result is 

 never satisfactory. For low standards, plants of one year old 

 are budded in the August after they are planted. The modes 

 of grafting are much the same as those employed in the case 

 of the dog-briar; however, the prolonged vegetation of the 

 Manetti must be taken into account, so that it may be worked 

 earlier with a pushing-bud and later with a dormant one. 

 The Manetti, therefore, is a suitable stock for those kinds 

 whose scions ripen either early or late in the season. The 

 Manetti does not produce suckers like the dog-briar, but 

 it emits from beneath the neck a very large number of 

 shoots. This may be in some degree remedied by rubbing 

 off the eyes at the base of the cutting at the time of its 

 preparation, and by extirpating the buds on the roots of 

 other stocks at the time of planting. 



Budding on the Quatre-Saisons. — The variety named Qnatre- 

 Saisons, or Monthly, is much prized by rose-growers for 

 forming low staudards under glass, and especially the new 

 varieties offered in trade. Formerly it was the only stock 

 employed. Nowadays it is used in conjunction with the 



