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quicker made by grafting than by cuttings, there is no 

 question. When the American Beauty Rose was first 

 sent out in 1885, our propagations from cuttings made 

 in August of that year, grown with all possible care, did 

 not attain half the size or vigor at a year old that grafts 

 put on Manetti stocks in March, 1886, made in five 

 months. In other words, the cutting plants required 

 only an eight-inch pot in August, while the grafted plants 

 required a ten-inch pot, being nearly twice the height and 

 twice the breadth. 



Budding Roses is usually performed on stocks planted 

 out in the open ground in July and August, or as late as 

 the buds will take ; the bud is usually placed low enough 

 on the stock, so that it can be earthed up to protect it in 

 winter. Generally only the hardy or Hybrid Perpetual 

 Roses are thus budded. It is practised to only a slight 

 extent by some of our florists and nurserymen in the 

 United States, as our climate is not so suitable for the 

 work as that of England or France; besides, the low rates 

 at which Roses are now sold in Europe, make the opera- 

 tion of budding Roses in the open ground no longer 

 profitable here, on account of our higher rates of labor. 



CHAPTER XXIX 



PLANTS MOST IN DEMAND IN MARKET IN SPRING. 

 GROWN IN GREENHOUSES. 



These plants are grown in pots in greenhouses, and I 

 will arrange them, as nearly as possible, in the order of 

 their importance in the New York markets, which is 

 perhaps, as good a criterion as can be fixed upon for the 

 whole country. 



Roses. These, comprising both Monthly and Hybrid 

 Perpetual sorts, are usually sold in four, five or six inch 



