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is to occupy. Give a thorough waterini;, prefer a span-roofed case. 
PROPAGATION OF ROSES BY and lot them be exposed to all except very which may In- anything fro,; 
DRAFTING bad weather. Hero thev ui'l remain until a foot wide. 'I hi- \v.<lih uii 
UlNtT. hatches are .anted for working. The first convenient as a shelf to sU 
The increase of roses by budding in the of these should he brought into a wanner plants upon tor a tune when reino 
summer and cuttings during autumn hav. house about a fortnight' before they are to few as they 7- 
intr been treated upon, a few notes upon be grafted. I am aware that many advo- different aim 
grafting through the winter may prove use- eate the graft and stock being in the able for the r< 
ful. Although it mav appeal- a little early same position, but my own experience is in come on alike, 
to deal with the matter, the first stage's favour of a little advance in the case of the There are several tonus of grafting. 'I 
must be entered upon now. stock, as the graft needs some support im- two most generally u-cd I will endeav< 
Stocks resulting from cutting inserted mediately the sap remaining in it becomes to describe. In the first we cut off 1 
last autumn must be lifted and potted at active. Future batches of stocks are intro- .stock as c'osely to the root as possible, s 
once, or we shall not have them moving duced to a spell ot warmth as needed, for T allowing room for the graft to be fix, 
sufficiently for the first batch of grafting. do not like them too forward. In spring. This naturally depends upon the size 
Various stocks can be used, and although however, when udmr half-ripened wood, the the scion used, which, again, depends up 
the Manetti is not m> popular now, because stock mav be a little more active, so as to the variety. If the graft is much smal 
of its alleged coarseness, this stock is by no be more in keeping with the condition of than the stock, the graft is cut wedg. 
means so rampant when its roots are con- the green graft. shape and slipped into a corresponding < 
fined to pots, and it still makes a most The pr.mauatini: ease should be perfectly in the stock. This method is more u> 
