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The Indian Amateur Rose Gardener (Practical Directions for the Cultivation and Propagation of Roses)

1881

They comprise the Provence roses the French or Proving roses the Damask the White the Australian Briar and the Scotch the sweet so-called summer roses of former times and the favourites of our earlier days are now rarely seen and all but discarded. [...] This operation should be performed in the plains at the end of the rains before there is a heavy fall of dew at night or at the end of the cold season from February on to the rains in June. [...] Both stock and bud must be adapted to each other to ensure a life of beauty in their united functions ; therefore both the stock and bud must be in a healthy state and the one suited to the other : that is to say the stock on which the bud is to be inserted should be of the most vigorous growth so as to be able to feed it with its life's blood its sap.* The stock must be growing the bud just [...] 21 the end of your budding knife at K in the stock just where the two cuts meet slip in the shield which is held by the leaf-stock and gently draw it down into the slit K J and cut of any part of the shield projecting at H I so that it corresponds exactly with the bark of the stock at H I as in F4. [...] When the branch in the pot shews it is growing it may be cut off from the mother stem below the pot and may then beplaced in the shade for a few days after which it may be planted out in the open disirearn grafting is another method of procuring plants by which when the union has taken place the plant may be cut off with the graft on it and planted out so as to be buried over the junction of
agriculture environment
Pages
116
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143816
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
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Preface
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Chapter I. Introduction
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Chapter II. Soils and Manures
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Chapter III. Causes of Success or Failure
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Chapter IV. Forms of Roses and how to Make them
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Chapter V. On Pruning
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Chapter VI. Yellow Roses
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Chapter VII. The Rosarium
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Chapter VIII. Types or Characters of Roses
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Chapter IX. Exhibiting Roses
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Chapter X. Miscellaneous Notes
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Chapter XI. Select List of Roses
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W. Newman & Co.’s Indian Publications
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