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Boll, Marguerite de St. Amande, etc., are as yet 

 almost indispensable, but no nurseryman would 

 long grow tliem from cuttings. There is another 

 class of roses often advantageously grown by 

 budding, these are varieties of moderate growth 

 like A. K. Williams, Horace Yernet, Madame 

 Victor Yerdier, Mademoiselle Eugenie Yerdier, 

 Marie Baumann, Xavier Olibo, etc. All these 

 kinds are invigorated by being worked on some 

 strong stock, like the Manetti. A third advan- 

 tage of budded roses is for use as stock plants, and 

 also for forcing. Budded plants of many kinds 

 (not the Jacqueminot type) can be taken up in 

 October or November, and with ordinary treat- 

 ment will give as fine a crop of flowers as plants 

 of the same varieties which have been grown all 

 summer in pots at much more expense and labor. 

 I would not advise any reader to purchase 

 budded roses who cannot tell, by the wood, the 

 difference between Persian Yellow and General 

 Jacqueminot, between Marie Baumann and Salet 

 — indeed amateurs who cannot do this do not 

 deserve to have roses at all, for they would not 

 be able to distinguish between the shoots of the 

 Manetti suckers and their Louis Yan Houtte or 



