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inserted on a stock. Many varieties, as tion to tliese circumstances insures that
IJourbon, Noisette, China, Tea-scented, the sap is flowing freely, and avoids a
&c., if well managed, will bloom beau- rapid evaporation, so often preventing
tifully in the spring and summer fol- success. But budding may be in spring,
lowing. if the buds are extracted with a small
Mr. Jos. Baumann recommends the portion of wood adhering to them. For
seeds of the dog rose to be sown in this purpose, scions are cut before win-
February, the seedlings, cut back to ter, and stuck into the ground till the
two eyes, potted in forty-eights next moment when in spring the bark of the
stock will run. To prepare the bud,
' autumn plunged in a border until early ;
in July ; to be budded at the end of we make firstly, a transverse cut into
August; headed down in November; the wood a little below an eye, which
potted in thirty-twos; protected in a
frame during winter ; started by dung
incision is met by a longer cut down-
wards, commencing at a short distance
heat in January, and the shoots when above the eye, care being taken that a
three inches long pinched back to one portion of wood is removed with the
inch, this being repeated two or three
times to form a good head. In autumn,
prune and shift to larger pots, to remain
for some years. These stocks
produce very enduring and bright flowers.
Rosa Banksia, herberifolia, bracteata,
and multiflora, do boston Quatre
Saisons stocks.
bark. This bud is inserted into the
bark of the stock, which is cut like
an inverted y, 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 waterproof bast, without, however,
applying grafting clay. Eight days after
In budding on the Boursault, and in- the insertion of the bud, the stock is
deed on any other rose, an excellent pruned down to the branch, which is
mode is, in April, to tongue a strong immediately above the opposite side,
shoot, pass it through a forty-eight pot,
until the tongue is in the centre, and
then press the pot full of a mixture of
and this branch is stopped by being cut
down to two or three eyes; all the side
wood is destroyed, and when the bud
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rotten dung and sand. It may be bud- has pushed its fifth leaf, compel it to
ded at the time, but whenever done, branch by pinching its extremity ; it will
the shoot should be headed down at the then flower in September of the same
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time of budding to within two eyes of year. You may also bud the rose in
the bud. Gard. Chron. the spring without waiting till tlie bark
Mr. Glenny recommends the stocks separates, by placing the bud with some
to be planted in a rich stiflish ground, wood on it, in a niche made in the
two feet apart in the row, and three stock, similar to what would be formed
feet between the rows, with a stake by taking an eye for budding from it in
every ten feet, and rods of sufficient the manner above described, and into
strength, reaching from one to another, which it is fitted exactly with a slight
to secure them against the effects of the pressure. It is recommended to make
wind. Plant no deeper than just to the cut for the niche where there is al-
cover the crown of the roots. When [
a bud on the stock ; when placed,
ready
growing commences rub off, twice a the bud is then bound with bast and
week, all the buds that are not wanted, covered with mastic. Gard, Mag.
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but let the highest remain, for a stock Grafting.— " The exact time," says
six feet high often produces no shoots
higher than half its height. In the first
the best treatise on the 'Tree Rose,'
" for removing the scions from the paweek
of July, the thorns should be removed
from those places on the stocks
rent tree, must depend upon the season ;
some time during the first three weeks
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intended for budding roses. If they be in February is the usual period. There
not taken away, the operation is ren- does not exist an actual necessity for
cutting the scions until they arc required
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is best done now as time is thus allowed for use ; but then it will be more diffifor
the bark's healing. The best time cult to select the numbers recjuired in
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for budding the rose is towards the end a state fit for use, and there is a greater
of July, a dormant eye being employed, ' chance of their going off, if the weather
just after a fall of rain, and when no remain cold, or the sap be not imme-
diately supplied. Scions cut when the
strong dry wind is moving. An atten- ]
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