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and connect it up with our finest new hybrids would all tend to 

 establish a reputation and attract buyers to the nurseries ; yet so 

 it is, and it would be more difficult to find a commercially successful 

 rose grower without those qualifications than to find a dozen 

 possessing them. 



Take the great and famous names, Paul and Turner, the two first 

 which occur to us, and settle in your own mind whether they 



FIG. 25. Blush Rambler 



would ever have attained to their great eminence in the commercial 

 world of roses without their knowledge of the rose and all that 

 pertains to it. What they did not know about the rose was not worth 

 knowing, and this it was, allied to business perspicacity, that built 

 up their successful businesses. We cannot all be Pauls, or Turners, 

 or Cants, but we can all see very plainly the methods by which 

 they achieved success, and as there are no other roads we shall 

 do well to at least try to follow their lead. 

 As practical men, we very properly give pre-eminence to the 



