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The chief disadvantages are these: first, 
it is more expensive. The stocks are to be 
purchased and cared for (they cannot often 
be profitably grown in our hot climate), and 
it will be found that the labor of budding, 
suckering, cutting back stocks, etc., will 
make the operation far more costly than 
growing plants from cuttings. Budded 
plants are not desirable for inexperienced 
amateurs, since novices do not detect the 
suckers which, not infrequently, come up 
from the roots and if not cut away ultimately 
choke the plant. A third objection is found 
in the fact that budded plants are more fre- 
quently killed by severe winters than plants 
on own roots. 
On the other hand, by budding we are en- 
abled to grow varieties which are so difficult 
to root from cuttings, that their propagation 
would be discontinued by all large rose- 
growers were it not for this method. Varie- 
ties like Baroness Rothschild, Mabel Morri- 
son, Marquise de Castellane, Madame Boll, 
Marguérite de St. Amande, etc., areas yet al- 
most indispensable, but no nurseryman would 
long grow them from cuttings. There is an- 
other class of roses often advantageously 
grown by budding, these are varieties of 
moderate growth like A. K, Williams, Horace 
