34 THE BOOK OF THE ROSE CHAP. 
to an end without a bud), and even if the bud is still 
to be found apparently sound it has probably received 
some permanent injury or disfiguration that will 
render it valueless, but cannot be detected till it is 
too late. In such cases it would be advisable to 
remember that the injury is almost always worse 
than it appears to be at first, and that if the growth 
is not far advanced the sooner the damaged shoots 
are removed the better. Of course, too many blind 
shoots should not be removed, especially if they are 
the strongest, or if the plant has been lately moved, 
for such treatment would be likely to seriously 
weaken the whole season’s growth. 
Even the native briar standard stocks, just trans- 
planted from the hedges, will sometimes suffer; and 
many thousands were thus destroyed in nursery 
grounds in the winter of 1890-91. In one year in 
the eighties many of my standard H.P.s were thus 
destroyed, and in almost every case the injury—the 
frost-bite—was not to the Rose, but to the stock, 
black dead places, looking like actual bites, appear- 
ing in the stems. This was an exceptional case, 
and it does seem odd, as we rarely see a wild briar 
injured by frost, that the same plant should be more 
tender when transferred to a garden; but we must 
remember that standard stocks for budding have 
nearly ali their fibrous roots cut off, and that 
they are generally taken from a sheltered place and 
planted right out in the open, much more exposed 
to evaporation, and are often perhaps allowed to 
become dry at the root in moving. It is plain, 
therefore, that, as frost is such an enemy to the 
Rose-grower, a situation should be sought where 
the least damage of this sort may be expected. 
