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The chief disadvantages are these : first, 

 it is more expensive. The stocks are to be 

 purchased and cared for (they cannot often 

 be profitably grown in our hot climate), and 

 it will be found that the labor of budding, 

 suckering, cutting back stocks, etc., will 

 make the operation far more costly than 

 growing plants from cuttings. Budded 

 plants are not desirable for inexperienced 

 amateurs, since novices do not detect the 

 suckers which, not infrequently, come up 

 from the roots and if not cut away ultimately 

 choke the plant. A third objection is found 

 in the fact that budded plants are more fre- 

 quently killed by severe winters than plants 

 on own roots. 



On the other hand, by budding we are en- 

 abled to grow varieties which are so difficult 

 to root from cuttings, that their propagation 

 would be discontinued by all large rose- 

 growers were it not for this method. Varie- 

 ties like Baroness Rothschild, Mabel Morri- 

 son, Marquise de Castellane, Madame Boll, 

 Marguerite de St. Amande, etc. , are as yet al- 

 most indispensable, but no nurseryman would 

 long grow them from cuttings. There is an- 

 other class of roses often advantageously 

 grown by budding, these are varieties of 

 moderate growth like A. K. Williams, Horace 



