SEEDLING BRIERS. 19 
(Continuation of references from page 18.) 
the time of transplanting the seedlings, which is done when they are 
a year old, or the first year after sowing; in the following season 
they are ready for working. The root system increases in vigour 
as the years roll by, and thus accords with the development of the 
head of the Rose, It is the stock par excellence for ‘Teas and Hybrid 
Teas, and is also good for Hybrid Perpetuals, and is not nearly so prone 
to suckering as the cutting Brier and stock collected from the hedge- 
rows 
