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Nor will the wise nurseryman think me less his 

 friend, financially, when I advise amateurs to grow 

 their own stocks, by gathering hips from the hedge- 

 row Rose in the later autumn, keeping them dry 

 through the winter, breaking them up, and sowing 

 the seed in spring. He knows, as well as I do, 

 that the more a man grows Rose-trees for himself, 

 the more he buys from others, and that the demand 

 increases just in proportion as the facility and 

 economy of Rose-growing are made known to all. 



Meanwhile, where there is a difficulty in ob- 

 taining Rose-trees upon the seedling Brier, or 

 seedling Briers for budding, the amateur, until his 

 supply is sufficient, may betake himself to the 

 hedge-rows. 



Give your order — and any laborer will soon 

 learn to bring you what you want — towards the end 

 of October. I have myself a peculiar but unfail- 

 ing intimation when it is time to get in my 

 Briers — wj Brier-man conies to churcJi. He 

 comes to a morning service on the Sunday. If I 

 make no sign during the week, he appears next 

 Sunday at the evening also. If I remain mute, he 

 comes on week-days. I know then that the case 

 is urgent, and that we must come to terms. Were 

 I to fancy the Manetti instead of the Brier, my 

 impression is that he would go over to Rome. 



