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GARDENING IN THE SOUTHWEST 
Ideally 
Grown 
Bushes 
Popular 
Demand 
nurseryman, who, knowing how to grow good Roses, does it. It is one 
which reaches you soon enough after being dug to have lost the mini¬ 
mum in vitality, and which, in this necessary interim, has been handled, 
packed, and shipped with everv possible effort to conserve this vitality 
through proper moisture and exclusion of air. All this calls for money, 
time, and labor, as well as skilled knowledge. So, little wonder that a 
nurseryman must ask for a first-class bush a first-class price. 
The variety of a bush plays less of a part in an amateur’s success or 
failure with it than is generally supposed. Much more depends on the 
way it was grown previously. Any variety can be built up by a clever 
grower, in time, by propagation from selected stock, under the best 
conditions, and by the best methods. An example of this is the Radiance, 
for the Radiance was rescued from obscurity and bred to the perfection 
it has attained in the Southwest through just such means. 
Good 
Bushes 
Quick 
Results in 
Plant and 
Bloom 
Budded 
Types 
How to Recognise a Good Bush 
A good bush for an amateur to buy is a two-year-old plant 
with a well-developed root system showing no disease. It has from 
three to four strong canes, apparently clean and healthy, with no 
signs of being dried out. 
Whether a plant should be budded or on its own roots is no 
real question, for each kind has its merits and disadvantages, the 
real question being, what do you want from your plant? 
If you want quick results and abundant bloom, by all means 
choose a well-budded plant, but if you prefer longevity in the 
bush, stick to the own-rooted kind, if you can find a good nursery 
that deals in them any more, for from a commercial point of view, 
there is no question about the greater desirability of the budded 
stock. 
Though strong-growing types, such as Shrubs, Climbers, Poly- 
anthas, Radiances and the like will prosper very well on their own 
roots, some new varieties have been too inbred to make roots for 
themselves very rapidly. Two chief faults found in some budded 
stock are that they are too high budded, and are not made as 
nearly as possible "sucker”-proof. 
Unless a plant is budded low enough, the roots will be too far 
below the surface of the soil to survive, for in their natural state, 
