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XXIX. Notes on Grafting, Budding, and Cultivating Gar- 

 den Roses. By Jean Baptiste Van Mons, M. D. 

 Foreign Member of the Horticultural Society of London. 



Read May 4, 1824. 



It is generally believed that the Rose cannot be propagated 

 by grafting, and that budding must be employed for the pur- 

 pose ; this however is a mistake, the former method succeed- 

 ing as well as the latter. 



For grafting,* scions are used of such a thickness that when 

 fitted they may equal the stock in diameter ; by making the 

 slit short of the axis of the stock, the slenderest scions may 

 be used. The scion is to be cut on both sides, so as to form 

 an elongated wedge, and the bark of the stock must be made 

 to fit the graft on both sides ; a ligature is afterwards applied, 

 of fine bass, made water-proof by pressing it first through a 

 solution of white soap, and next through one of alum. The 

 ligature is finally 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 hair pencil. The best stocks for this mode of graft- 

 ing, are the shoots of any kind of Garden Rose. 



We employ in Flanders the same mode of grafting with 

 the Dog-Rose, only taking the precaution that the cleft be 



* The mode of grafting here described, is what in English Gardening is 

 called Crown Grafting. Sec. 



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