64 GRAFTING ROSES. [ApriL 
mon process of budding and grafting. The following sorts 
are all perfectly distinct : — 
Aubernon, dark rosy red, cupped and very double. 
Baron Prevost, dark rose, very large, strong growing. 
Blanche, pure white, cupped, very profuse. 
Conitesse Duchatel, dark rosy red, large and perfect. 
Duchess de Nemours, pale rose colour, very double. 
Duchess of Praslin, pale blush, very profuse. 
Due d'Aumale, rosy crimson, perfect form. 
Edward Jesse, pale red, a very constant bloomer. 
General Taylor, bright crimson scarlet, fine. 
Lane, bright carmine, fine form, and a constant bloomer. 
La Heine, rosy lilac, very large. 
Marquis Boccella, pale pink, a profuse bloomer. 
Prince Albert, rich crimson, large and very double. 
Youlande d'Arragon, pale rose, large and very constant in 
bloom ; one of the best light-coloured sorts. 
There are fifty other sorts could be added to the above, 
without decidedly varying the colour. 
GRAFTING ROSES. 
The operation of grafting, from the pithy nature of the 
stems of the rose, is more troublesome, and seldom succeeds 
so well as budding, though when the buds inserted the pre- 
vious summer fail, it is worth while to have recourse to graft- 
ing, which may succeed, and thus make up for the failure. 
The cleft-grafting is much practised, especially on the conti- 
nent of Europe, and is the most successful method. It is 
necessary that the scion (or young shoot that is intended to 
be multiplied) should be cut from the bush before vegetation 
commences, and placed in some shaded situation till the time 
of operation, which will be after the buds begin to swell on 
the stock, when the head of the stock may be cut horizon- 
tally to its desired height, and a slit made in its crown down- 
ward one and a half or two inches. The scion should be cut 
into lengths of two and a half or three inches, and then, 
cutting its lower end into a wedge-like sh.npe, inserting it 
into the slit of the stock, keeping the back of the stock and 
