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care should be had that only those be chosen 

 which are vigorous and healthy, otherwise a sick- 

 ly or weak progeny will result. 



By Budding. — This is an important method, 

 second only to propagation by cuttings. 



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. Bud- 

 ded 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 bud- 

 ded plants are more frequently killed by severe 

 .winters than plants on own roots. 



On the other hand, by budding we are enabled 

 to grow varieties which are so difficult to root 

 from cuttings, that their propagation would be dis- 

 continued by all large rose-growers were it not for 

 this method. Varieties like Baroness Rothschild, 

 Mabel Morrison, Marquise de Castellane, Madame 



