Commercial rose culture under glass and outdoors; a practical guide to modern methods of growing the rose for market purposes . the knife underthe bark. Use a thin and sharp budding knife, make a longi-tudinal incision about three-quarters of an inch long, anothershort one across the top, making it T-shaped; run the knifeunder the bark to loosen it from the wood, and cut off the budyou wish to insert, taking with it a thin scale of the wood if theshoot is young. If the wood is old the bark will be the bark about one-quarter of an inch above and be-low the bud. Raise the bark on
Commercial rose culture under glass and outdoors; a practical guide to modern methods of growing the rose for market purposes . the knife underthe bark. Use a thin and sharp budding knife, make a longi-tudinal incision about three-quarters of an inch long, anothershort one across the top, making it T-shaped; run the knifeunder the bark to loosen it from the wood, and cut off the budyou wish to insert, taking with it a thin scale of the wood if theshoot is young. If the wood is old the bark will be the bark about one-quarter of an inch above and be-low the bud. Raise the bark on the stock with the budding 42 COMMERCIAL ROSE CULTURE knife, insert the bud carefully as far as it can go, and bind withraffia. This may be cut away in about two weeks. Rathercool, cloudy weather is best for this operation. In hot, dryweather, the buds are liable to perish before the union iseflfected. Break off any shoots which attempt to push outbelow the bud and, as soon as the bud commences to grow,cut off the old stem above the bud as close as convenient,making a clean slanting cut on the opposite side of the The finished grafted plant ready for the case CHAPTER VI HYBRIDIZING A CHAPTER on this subject having been asked for, thefollowing has been written: Hybridizing is the art of bringing together individualflowers or plants of different species. Cross breeding effectssimilar results with individuals of the same species. The average Rose grower has little time or inclination topractice this art and, when we consider that a man might raisethousands of seedlings, which take up valuable time and spacefor months and sometimes years, only to find them all worth-less at the end of it all, we understand why so few attempt itand feel genuine admiration for our pioneers in Americawho have done such noble work in this direction. Generally speaking, a man to be successful in this workmust follow out a well defined and systematic course whencrossing Roses; he must know just w
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