. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 74 CASSELL'S rOPULAR GARDENINa. grow very slowly during their first stages, these seedlings would doubtless soon supersede all other stocks for Roses. As it is, they are multiplying in all directions, and one large grower for sale ad- vertises as the highest recommendation that all the Roses sent out from his firm are worked on the seedling briar. Others are equally enthusiastic in favour of briar cuttings. However, there is little doubt that the seedling briar will continue to be a favourite stock among rosaiians. The supply is virtually unlimited, fo
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 74 CASSELL'S rOPULAR GARDENINa. grow very slowly during their first stages, these seedlings would doubtless soon supersede all other stocks for Roses. As it is, they are multiplying in all directions, and one large grower for sale ad- vertises as the highest recommendation that all the Roses sent out from his firm are worked on the seedling briar. Others are equally enthusiastic in favour of briar cuttings. However, there is little doubt that the seedling briar will continue to be a favourite stock among rosaiians. The supply is virtually unlimited, for few plants seed more profusely than the Dog-rose. With a view, however, of having pure stocks, or strains of seeds, several nurserymen have begun to grow their own seeds. This is important, for in a bundle of seedling briars lately to hand there was a large percentage of Sweet-bx-iar, useless as a stock, and numerous other species of Rose besides that of liosa canina. Time and Modes of Sowing Briar-seeds. •—As to time, so soon as rixDe, or in the spring, are the only two seasons, and the first is the best. Nothing is gained—a good deal, the seed itself, may be lost or greatly injured—by being kept till the spring. Rub the seeds out of the hips, mix them with a little dry sand and part them from the chaffy matter that envelops them, and sow at once. This prevents the trouble and risk of drying, and the seeds are safer in the earth than in bags or drawers. On the Continent it is customary to sow the seeds under glass so soon as gathered, or in February or March. They vegetate much sooner under this extra warmth; and as the season advances the glass may be almost entirely withdrawn. Place it over them, however, next winter, and the following spring line out the j)lants in drills a foot apart, and two or three inches from plant to plant. After a second season's growth most of them will be fit to graft or bud, and it is said that the French and other Con- tinental seedling
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