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There is some difference of opinion as to the 

 relative values of "budded" and "own-root" 

 roses. The advocates of the latter declare 

 that the wild wood will sooner or later choke 

 and kill the budded growth. This point is 

 well taken if we admit the necessity of per- 

 mitting the wild growth to develop, but if 

 planting has been correctly done wild wood 

 rarely breaks out. If it does, as it happens 

 in exceptional cases, it can be easily dis- 

 tinguished and readily removed. The Man- 

 etti suckers nearly always push up outside 

 of the plant and are covered with minute 

 prickly spines. Suckers of the brier stock 

 bear seven serrated leaves instead of the usual 

 number of five, and so are easily identified. 

 If a shoot is suspected of being wild, positive 

 proof is easy to get. Remove the earth care- 

 fully, and follow the shoot down to the point 

 of union with the rest of the plant; if this is 

 below the bud, the shoot is a sucker and must 

 be removed. Cut it off close and rub the 

 wound with a little moist earth. Perhaps 

 1 per cent, of the roses in a well-cared-for 

 garden will push out wild wood in a year, 

 but in a badly tended garden a much greater 

 proportion will appear — the result of too 



