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flower markets and shops must have frequently remarked the 

 profuse way in which Aimee Vibert and other Roses are flowered in 

 pots j while even many good cultivators in England, who attempt 

 the culture of the same kind, frequently find it running all to stem 

 and leaf, and flowering but very sparsely. The way the French 

 cultivators secure such a profuse bloom, is simply by selecting the 

 buds from stubby flowering shoots. Thus buds taken from com- 

 paratively weak, free flowering, and dwarf shoots produce quantities 

 of bloom those taken from long " water-shoots" produce little be- 

 sides flowerless and useless wood. 



