78 THE ROSE. 
the plant; whereas older plants, carefully | 
grown, will give effective results the first 
year. Some nurserymen make a practice of 
cutting away all the flower buds from free 
blooming varieties, which form on the young 
_ plants: during the first year’s growth; this 
practice is to be highly commended; such 
plants are far more valuable to the purchaser 
than those not so treated. Quality should 
always be preferred to quantity; this is true 
whether respecting the plants or the flowers of 
roses, and one good two-year plant is worth 
more than six of the sucklings often sent by 
mail—poor, weak infants, which never should 
have been sent from the zursery—just as one 
good bloom of Marie Baumann, or Alfred 
Colomb, is worth half a dozen of Pius the IX. 
or Triomphe de 1’Exposition. 
Care must be exercised that the soil ait 
the plant be well pulverized and no hard 
lumps atlowed to remain in contact with the 
roots; after the plants are set out, de sure 
that they are firmly pressed in with the feet 
or hands; plants that are loosely stuck in the 
ground can never do well. Another prom- 
inent thing to bear in mind is: never allow 
the plants to lie exposed to the wind and 
sun, keep them covered until ready to plant. 
The distance apart is somewhat regulated by 
