OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



settled, and by this method blooms on new varieties 

 and tests of new seedlings are quickly secured. The 

 disadvantages are: First, the great amount of care 

 necessitated by the greenhouse; and second, the fact 

 that after the plants are removed to the garden beds 

 they have already had a considerable period of 

 growth and their constitutions are impaired by the 

 lengthened outdoor season before dormancy again 

 prevails in the fall. 



All this work, however, is most interesting for 

 those who desire to go into rose growing to the 

 fullest extent. There is one point, not generally 

 mentioned in the books on budding, which seems to 

 be worth recording. Most handbooks advise that 

 after the bud is cut, the wood be removed from the 

 bark and only the bark with the small immature 

 bud left. This result is obtained by a quick short 

 jerk which severs the weak and immature bud from 

 the hard wood of the cane. This was found most 

 difficult to accomplish, as unless the plant was in 

 exactly the right condition, the immature bud was 

 often broken. The men who taught budding did 

 not use this method, but after cutting the bud, shaved 

 the same down until there was only a very small 

 portion of wood left with a large surface of bark. 

 In this shaving down, the point emphasized was that 

 the edges should be as clean as possible. This expla- 



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