Roses for English gardens . SOME OF THE FREE-GROWING ROSES ON THEIROWN ROOTS. CHAPTER VI ROSES ON THEIR OWN ROOTS Many of our ordinary garden Roses are necessarilyown root plants. This is because they are so easilypropagated by other methods than budding. Pro-vence, Damask, the albas and the Briers increase bysuckers, Sweet-brier by seed or cuttings, and thefree-growing Ayrshires and multiflora hybrids bycuttings or layers. But there are many gardenswhere other Roses, especially the Teas and HybridTeas, kinds that with rare exceptions are sold grafted,would be better on their own roots. Such p
Roses for English gardens . SOME OF THE FREE-GROWING ROSES ON THEIROWN ROOTS. CHAPTER VI ROSES ON THEIR OWN ROOTS Many of our ordinary garden Roses are necessarilyown root plants. This is because they are so easilypropagated by other methods than budding. Pro-vence, Damask, the albas and the Briers increase bysuckers, Sweet-brier by seed or cuttings, and thefree-growing Ayrshires and multiflora hybrids bycuttings or layers. But there are many gardenswhere other Roses, especially the Teas and HybridTeas, kinds that with rare exceptions are sold grafted,would be better on their own roots. Such plants have several advantages. They aremuch longer lived, they give more bloom, they bloommore continuously, and they throw up no troublesomesuckers. The common Dog Rose, the most usual stock inEngland, is very troublesome in the way of suckers,and often in the case of Roses from some goodforeign raiser, the stock, if not carefully watched,will overpower the scion, and we find we have aflourishing bush certainly, but of Man
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