318 On Grafting, Budding, $c. Garden Roses. 



of sufficient depth to allow the cut edge of the scion which 

 is immediately above its cut part, to rest firmly upon the 

 wood of the stock. The ligature in this case is of bass, and 

 we cover it with white mastic made of Burgundy pitch, 

 white wax, and boiled turpentine, with or without a little 

 white size. Black masti cimbibes heat too much when ex- 

 posed to the sun. 



The Rose may be budded very well in the spring, if the 

 buds are extracted with a small portion of wood adhering to 

 them. For this purpose scions are cut before winter and 

 stuck into the ground, till the moment when in spring the 

 bark of the stock will run. To prepare the bud we make, 

 firstly, a transverse cut into the wood a little below an eye, 

 which incision is met by a longer cut downwards, commencing 

 at a short distance above the eye, care being taken that a 

 portion of wood is removed with the bark ; this bud is in- 

 serted into the bark of the stock, which is cut like an inverted 

 T thus, JL the horizontal edges of this cut in the stock and 

 of the bud must be brought into the most perfect contact 

 with each other, and then bound with water-proof bass, 

 without however applying grafting clay. Eight days after 

 the insertion of the bud, the stock is pruned down to the 

 branch, which is immediately above the bud on the opposite 

 side, and this branch is stopped by being cut down to two 

 or three eyes ; all the side wood is destroyed, and when the 

 bud has pushed its fifth leaf we compel it to branch by 

 pinching its extremity, it will then flower in September of 

 the same year. 



You may also bud the Rose in the spring, without waiting 

 till the bark separates, by placing the bud with some wood 



