CHAPTER VI 



ROSES ON THEIR OWN ROOTS 



Many of our ordinary garden Roses are necessarily 

 own root plants. This is because they are so easily 

 propagated by other methods than budding. Pro- 

 vence, Damask, the albas and the Briers increase by 

 suckers, Sweet-brier by seed or cuttings, and the 

 free-growing Ayrshires and multiflora hybrids by 

 cuttings or layers. But there are many gardens 

 where other Roses, especially the Teas and Hybrid 

 Teas, kinds that with rare exceptions are sold grafted, 

 would be better on their own roots. 



Such plants have several advantages. They are 

 much longer lived, they give more bloom, they bloom 

 more continuously, and they throw up no troublesome 

 suckers. 



The common Dog Rose, the most usual stock in 

 England, is very troublesome in the way of suckers, 

 and often in the case of Roses from some good 

 foreign raiser, the stock, if not carefully watched, 

 will overpower the scion, and we find we have a 

 flourishing bush certainly, but of Manetti or of De la 

 Grifferaie instead of the Rose desired. 



Grafted plants may be best for the production of 

 show blooms, but the bush that is to produce the 

 show bloom is to a great extent reared and nurtured 

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