58 How TO Grow Cut Fx^owees. 



Early last summer I prepared a solid bed, drained it 

 well and transferred to it some one year old Beauties 

 from a raised bench. They were fine plants, had not 

 been overworked, and in moving them we first cut all 

 around the plant, then taking them one by one, with 

 a shovel removed, them with as little disturbance to 

 the roots as possible. Root growth was encouraged in 

 these at once, and although they gave excellent prom- 

 ise and made a fair growth, less than one-half as many 

 buds have been cut from it, as from the bench from 

 which they were taken, which was replanted in June 

 with young plants propagated early in March. 



I know men who have in a few instances had fair 

 success in growing roses in shallow benches the second 

 year. But they are experts, and I notice do not try it 

 if they have plenty of nice young plants to use in- 

 stead. 



As a rule, it is not the expert grower who tries this 

 method. It is the novice to whom it seems not only a 

 sacrifice of money, but of product as well, to throw 

 the stock out and start anew. 



I have two establishments in mind, both large, and 

 they are illustrations of these two methods. One dis- 

 carded all his stock, planted early with fresh young- 

 plants, and now at the close of the year, the growth is 

 a marvel of beauty, and the product unexcelled. Four- 

 fifths of the plants on the other place were retained, 

 and the g{)ectacle is as much of a marvel, in its way, 



