450 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
as much root as possible, every autumn, and planted out 
in nursery rows, or where they are to remain, if strong 
plants. The parent plant is also very much benefited by 
this operation. 
Budding.—All the varieties of the Rose can be prop- 
agated by budding, and, to increase new and rare varieties, 
this mode is always resorted to. There are some sorts, 
naturally weak, which flower much more perfectly when 
budded on some strong-growing species; but we hate a 
budded Rose-bush, and will not have one in our own 
grounds, if we can get them on their own roots. It re- 
quires much care and attention to keep them in order, as 
the stock is continually throwing up suckers, which draw 
all the nourishment from the budded variety. Where 
there are but few varieties, and a skillful gardener to look 
after the plants, there is no doubt but that it is desirable 
to have some upon strong-growing stocks. We were not 
a little amused, a few years since, upon a visit at the 
house of a horticultural friend, who, by the way, was 
better acquainted with the management of his fruit trees 
than he was with the flower-garden. His garden was well 
laid out and kept very neat. He was taking me around to 
show the various plants, and getting what information 
he could out of one he supposed knew more than he did 
about them. Presently he came to a wilderness of the 
French Dog Roses. “There,” says he, “is a lot of the 
choicest Roses that could be obtained in France.” - “ In- 
deed,” says I, “they certainly look very vigorous.” 
“They do, to be sure,” he replied; “but somehow or 
other, they look very much alike, and the few that flow- 
ered this year were very single.” “That is very prob- 
able,” I replied, ‘for Dog Roses have great resemblance 
to each other, and are always single.” Great was his sur 
prise, when I convinced him that the Roses he had im- 
ported and cultivated with so much care, were only 
