THE ROSE 



of this, many dealers resort to this method of 

 securing a supply of salable plants. It is money 

 in their pockets to do so. But it is an objection- 

 able plan, because the scion of a choice variety 

 grafted to a root of an inferior kind is quite 

 likely to die off, and when this happens you have 

 a worthless plant. Strong and vigorous branches 

 may be sent up from the root, but from them 

 you will get no flowers, because the root from 

 which they spring is that of a non-flowering sort. 

 Many persons cannot understand why it is that 

 plants so luxuriant in growth fail to bloom, but 

 when they discover that this growth comes from 

 the root helow where the graft was inserted^ the 

 mystery is explained to them. When grafted 

 plants are used, care must be taken to remove 

 every shoot that appears about the plant unless 

 it is sent out above the graft. If the shoots that 

 are sent up from helow the graft are allowed 

 to remain, the grafted portion will soon die off, 

 because these shoots from the root of the variety 

 upon which it was " worked " will speedily rob 

 it of vitality and render it worthless. All this 

 risk is avoided by planting only kinds which are 

 grown upon their own roots. 



In planting Roses, make the hole in which 

 they are to be set large enough to admit of 



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