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cuttings as they are when budded on Brie* or other stock. It is at least so 

 in some regions. To mention only one example, taken at Lyons (the 

 country above all others for Roses) ; 1 Souvenir de la Mahnaison ' grows 

 very well on its own roots, and also equally well budded on the Brier. But 

 if this be true of any particular variety cultivated in a particular climate, 



Fig. 150. — China Koskk in Vase. 



it often ceases to be the case when .the same variety is transported into 

 another country. For example*, hating written in the Lyon Horticole 

 that certain Tea Roses on their own roots did not make strong plants 

 at Lyons, I drew upon myself the following answer from a Roumanian 

 lawyer, Monsieur (i. .!. Bejan : — 



I have read in the LffOfl Horticole that Tea Hoses on their own roots are not 



