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your nurseryman to be sent you in November. It 
may be that you do not mind the cost, but plant as 
carefully as you may, with all possible good fortune, 
you will be lucky if you get any first-class blooms 
the next year from these newly-moved plants. But 
if you have plenty of good healthy stocks at home 
ready to be budded, how much more speedy and 
effectual and less costly the whole matter is! Your 
friend immediately cuts you off a shoot or two of 
the required sorts with good buds on each, or 
promises to send you them by post if there are 
none now ready. If the leaves are at once snipped 
off, all but the last inch of the footstalk of each, 
they may be safely carried home, or they will 
arrive in good condition by post, wrapped in damp 
moss or paper shreds. Do not be afraid your 
friend will refuse you, unless his plant is very 
small, weakly, and precious; not only from the 
universal good-fellowship of the craft, but also 
because he naturally expects that you will do the 
same for him, and that the benefit will thus be 
mutual. You put in these buds which have cost 
you nothing but an exchange which you can very 
well spare, and the very next summer you have 
the shoots and flowers in their fullest vigour, with 
the additional charm of watching a variety which 
is new to you spring into leaf and bud and bloom 
from the tiny bud which you brought home in your 
pocket. 
What a pleasure, too, to help a beginner, or one 
who has lost his plants, by sending a large parcel 
of buds in early August when they are plentiful 
and you can spare a good quantity of them. But 
still, the choosing and cutting, preparation and 
