"The exact time," says the best treatise on the'Tree Rose,' "for removing the scions from the parent tree, must depend upon the season; some time during the first three weeks in February is the usual prriod. There does not exist an actual necessity for cutting the scions until they are required for use; but then it will be more difficult to select the numbers required in a state fit for use, and there is a greater chance of their going off", if the weather remain cold, or the sap be not imme-diatoly supplied. Scions cut when the sap is quite down, carry better and are in every way more hardy. Let the shoot remain for three weeks in an outhouse, or any other place, neither very dry nor very damp, where neither wind nor sun can come in contact with them; the clay being damped with a sparing hand, if the generality of the scions appear to shrink. During the first week in March the head of the stock (in which the sap should be beginning to rise) is to be cut off horizontally, a slit made in it straight downwards of a couple of inches, or an inch and a half long, without injuring the sides of the bark.

The scion is to be taken in the left hand, three buds, or two if the stock be not large, being left upon it; the lower extremity must then be cut in the shape of a wedge, the back being rather the thinnest, and the lowest bud about half an inch above the thick end of the wedge. In doing which, care must be taken that the bark be undisturbed, and each scion so placed that when entered in the stock, all the buds may point outward, or at any rate be in such position, that the shoots from them may not interfere with each other. The end of a budding knife or a little wooden or ivory wedge may be used to open the slit in the stock on one side, and the scion, with the thickest part or front outwards, must be placed in the other, care being taken that the edge of the inner bark or liber of the scion touches the edges of the inner bark of the stock all the way down ; the wedge may then be removed and another scion entered in its place, the slit being kept open by the first: if the size of the scion be only half the size of the stock, a shoulder may be left to the former, and the chances of success thereby increased.

Any number of scions may be inserted in the same stock, but from one to four at most are all that are desirable in the present case to cover completely the head of the stock, which is apt to receive much injury from the weather, if not carefully attended to. The object of laying by the scions, is that the stock may be forwardest, and be enabled to supply the sap and force them forward at once, instead of lingering while they perish from exposure and want of nourishment. When the shoots are on, the whole must be tied up with a bast ligature to prevent the scions from shifting, which from their wedge-like shape they will have a tendency to do, when the rise of the sap swells the stock, thereby diminishing the juxtaposition of their respective libers, and the whole beneath the lowest bud covered with grafting clay, totally excluding air, sun, and rain. If the clay crack, it must be renewed, not by shifting, but by filling up the crack. In about six months the clay may be removed, and the wound covered with grafting wax; this latter on no account must be omitted."- Gard. Chron.

"In Flanders, cleft-grafting is adopted, and care taken that the scion is of the same diameter as the stock, or the cleft in the stock made sufficiently near one side of the cross section, that the bark of the scion may fit the stock on both sides. This mode is adopted in grafting one sort of garden-rose upon another. In grafting upon the dog-rose the same practice is followed, with this addition, that a shoulder is very often made to the scion, so as that it may rest with greater firmness upon the stock ; such stocks being often employed as standards, and therefore more exposed to wind.

"Mr. Calvert, of Rouen, observes that it is the general practice to form the wedge in a part of the scion where there are no buds, but that he adopts a contrary practice, and finds that a bud, on the wedge part of the scion, greatly contributes to the success of the graft. By taking care to have a bud on the lower part of the scion, Mr. Calvert has even been successful in grafting roses by the whip or splice method, which, without a bud on the lower part of the scion, very often fails; but, with a bud, fails very seldom." - Gard. Mag.

Cuttings are made to succeed by the following treatment: -

"Take a cutting of a this-year's shoot, removing all but one leaf, and cutting off the upper part of the shoot above the leaf, and reducing its entire length to six inches. The cutting should be planted on the north side of a wall, under glass in a small frame, on a newly prepared hot-bed, and in a soil of leaf-mould, eight inches deep, well soaked with water, and covered over with sand. Water is to be given, and air abundantly, for the first four days, lessening its admission daily, until rooting is completed, which will be in about three weeks. In the fourth week the cutting may he potted." - Card. Chron.