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Bengals, &c., — and of course can not be as hardy as June roses. 

 So if the bud is above ground, and not properly protected from 

 the weather, the best part of the rose is liable to be killed, leaving 

 nothing but wilcT stock. The best authorities say, take budded 

 roses by all means. The roses are finer and the growth far be- 

 yond what we can get on roses on their own roots. It is advanced 

 as an argument in favor of roses on their own roots, that the 

 stock on which they are budded is so much more vigorous than 

 the bud, that the suckers overgrow the bud. It is no hard matter 

 to detect the sucker. If the bud is above ground surely you can 

 detect the difference, and if below, if you have any doubts, dig a 

 little below the surface, and set them at rest. As far as ray ex- 

 perience goes I raucli prefer budded roses. Budded roses that I 

 purchased of Elwanger & Barry in the autumn of 1878 bloomed 

 in tlie following season three and four times during the summer 

 and autumn, each time perfect in form and color, while I have 

 growing in precisely the same soil and location roses on their own 

 roots set out the previous year which have never shown bloom. 

 I believe I set in 1877 ten on their own roots, and at least four 

 out of tliat number, strong, vigorous plants, have never bloomed, 

 while out of 17 budded roses set in 1878 all, with the exception 

 of four, bloomed last season, and those that did not bloom had 

 not got established and strong enough to bloom. Mad. Victor 

 Verdier, Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier, Louis Van Houtte, Alfred Co- 

 lomb and Marguerite de St. Auiande were among the budded 

 roses. So you can readily see why I prefer budded roses. I 

 need not tell you how to keep off the enemies of the rose, as 

 Mr. Hyde told you all about that a few weeks ago. 



Now let us glance at the ever-blooming roses. I leave mine 

 in the ground, year after year, and save almost all of them, cer- 

 tainly more tlian when I used to take tliem up in the fall and 

 plant them out again in the spring. First grow them well during 

 the summer. Give them plenty to live on. Then in the early 

 autumn give them a dressing of well-rotted compost. Then late, 

 after quite severe frosts, pin them down and put leaves over and 

 around them, and cover with boards. Quite early in the spring 

 take off some of the boards and give them a little air. After, 

 remove both boards and leaves and dig in the compost. Some 

 of tliem will die to the root, but a good vigorous root, ready to 

 start, is worth two greenhouse plants. I have, however, wintered 

 just as successfully by covering with sods instead of boards. In 

 both cases be careful not to open them too suddenly after their 

 long winter's rest. In a former paper I told you there, was little 

 difference between the hardiness of the liybrid perpetuals and 

 the tender roses, and after two more years I repeat the assertion, 

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