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not always, however; and the strongest and best 

 should be left wherever found, the stocks being 

 afterwards headed down to these. AU suckers should 

 be followed up to their originating roots, and re- 

 moved close to the root-stocks. "Were this simple 

 plan invariably acted upon, the plague of suckers 

 would be unknown among cultivated Eoses. 



up of standard briars, multitudes of roots of various 

 sizes are met with. These, if carefully collected, 

 cut into lengths of six inches or a foot, and planted 

 at once, leaving the upper ends an inch or so from 

 the surface, will grow into good stocks for dwarf 

 Eoses. The process of forming fresh roots and ■ 

 growing into plants will be much hastened if such 



EosA BnnNONii, 



Caterpillars, grubs, and other insects will some- 

 times appear very early, and must be removed or 

 destroyed at once. Thus treated the stocks wiU 

 speedily grow into condition for budding. That 

 fascinating art will be fully taught in our next 

 chapter, on the Propagation of Eoses. 



Briar -roots.^ — These are far from having re- 

 ceived the attention they deserve. In the grubbing 



roots are placed in warmth for a few weeks before 

 planting. As they take no harm buried in the soil, 

 they might remain thus till February, be laid in a 

 gentle hot-bed aU through March, and be either 

 worked in that state and again subjected to heat, or 

 planted out in April, and grown in the open a year 

 or so before being worked. 



Briar Cuttings, — These now far exceed in 



