OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



In order to secure a perfect rose list, budding on 

 different stocks should be tried. If cuttings are 

 employed, very many roses will not succeed as well 

 for outdoor culture. 



There are two objections to budded roses. First, 

 they occasionally break off at the bud, but this has 

 so seldom occurred in actual practice that it is not 

 worth consideration. The second and main reason 

 is that the stocks upon which the roses are budded 

 throw up shoots of their own below the bud, usually 

 called suckers, which, if left, take the entire nourish- 

 ment of the roots and check the budded growth. 



These shoots from below the bud may be very 

 easily detected upon their appearance, because they 

 come up from the ground outside the plant and also 

 because of their different habit of growth, containing, 

 as they do, seven and sometimes nine leaves on each 

 lateral, instead of three and five as in most budded 

 varieties. (Note illustration.) The foliage is of a 

 much lighter shade of green than the shoots from 

 the bud itself and its point of junction with the plant 

 is below the bud. It is very easily removed by care- 

 fully digging up the ground, cutting it off with a 

 knife at its union with the plant below the bud, and 

 rubbing some earth over the cut. In addition, this 

 main reason is not a valid objection, because it only 



happens with about one per cent, of the budded 



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