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PROPAGATION OF THE ROSE. 
frame room, to put them in when potted, because it gives an oppor¬ 
tunity of shading, of keeping off too much wet, protecting them 
against wind, and of fumigating without the least difficulty, when 
necessary. They should, however, seldom have the glasses on. 
Alter the seedlings have been five or six weeks in these pots, they 
may be bedded out, in rich beds of loam and dung, without disturbing 
the balls; they should be about a foot apart, in beds of four feet wide; 
by planting within six inches of the side of the bed, four rows will go 
in, and they will here grow rapidly. Before the close of the budding 
season, many will have grown quite large enough to bud from; and 
the most promising may be cut back, and three or four buds put on 
remarkably strong stocks. Select a strong branch for budding on, 
and-at first, you must let some portion of the branch beyond the bud 
be left on to grow: a very small shoot beyond the bud will do to 
insure the growth. These buds will strike off vigorously the next 
season, and make considerable growth; but before the bud has shot 
far, cut the stock away everywhere but the portions budded on. The 
growth they will make this summer on strong stocks will insure their 
bloom the next season; and, as the real object is to see if the Kose be 
good for anything, they should not be pruned, except so far as to cut 
away weak branches altogether; by leaving the full length of the 
strong shoots, the blooms will be hastened. 
In the mean time, those in the bed may be treated as directed; and 
though not generally the case under the present management, they 
have bloomed these years on their own bottoms, though there were 
a great number much later than the third year, and some even went 
to the fifth. This mode of budding the promising seedlings hastens 
the certainty of bloom very much, as it is very rare indeed that they 
mist, coming the third year. If they are worth propagating, the 
budding greatly increases the quantity of wood to work from. If, on 
the contrary, they turn out good for nothing, the instant you discover 
it, cut away all the wood, and the stocks will, in all probability, grow 
in time for budding other sorts upon the same season you discover' 
the deficiency of those already worked. In this way, without incur¬ 
ring much trouble, you may satisfy yourself as to the quality of seed¬ 
lings for a certainty the third year; therefore, you should provide 
yourself with stocks for that purpose, whenever you sow seedlings. 
For China sorts, you should have some stocks of the common Cluna 7 
