On the Cultivation of the Rose. 
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Article III. — HinU on the Cultivation of the Ro^e. 
A Practical Gardener. 
Gentlemen, 
The disposition both to oblige and instruct, evinced by your 
reply to an “Amateur of Roses,” has led me to conclude, that you will 
perhaps find space in your very agreeable magazine, for a few additional 
hints on the culture of the Rose; which, possibly, may prove useful to 
your correspondent, and other unprofessional gardeners. 
All Roses take readily by Budding or Grafting one upon the other ; 
but it is obviously necessary that free-growing kinds should be worked 
upon stocks, which are likely to keep pace with them; and luxuriant and 
slow growers should not be worked together on the same plant, because 
the former by absorbing an undue share of sap would literally starve the 
latter. 
In Budding these shrubs it is of primary importance that the stock, 
at the time of being worked, should be healthy, free growing, free from 
knots and excrescences, and in full sap. For if the bark does not rise 
with facility, owing to a deficiency of that juice, there will be consider¬ 
able trouble in inserting the bud at all; and should that difficulty be 
overcome, the pains would even then be lost, for the bud would almost 
certainly perish from want of sufficient sap to nourish it. 
The common Dog Rose is the best foundation for standard Roses. 
Stocks of this species, transplanted out of copses and hedges, any time 
from the middle of October to the end of November, answer vrell for 
budding the succeeding summer. Among the leading points to be 
practised in forming standards are these;—transplant strong, clean, 
straight stocks, as just mentioned ; cut them over at a height to suit your 
taste—say from three to six feet; and cover the wounds with a cement,— 
directions for making which will ensue. In the spring, when they 
begin to shoot out, rub off all buds but three or four at the top, so situ¬ 
ated as to promise an uniform head. Carefully pinch off fresh buds, 
and remove suckers as soon as they appear. 
In the progress of the summer, the stocks will require to be staked, 
and demand continued attention to the disbudding of them and the regu¬ 
lation of their shoots, particularly in occasionally pinching off the tops of 
the latter to promote strength and thickness, rather than length of growth. 
Early in July displace the thorns in those parts of the young wood where 
it is designed to make incisions for the buds. Budding on the wood of 
the same year’s growth is recommended, because by putting three or 
four buds on as many young shoots, a handsome head will be obtained 
sooner than by any other mode. But if these shoots are too slender, the 
operation may be performed in the old wood, when the bark peels freely. 
In this case, three or four buds may be put in different positions round 
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