. Dingee guide to rose culture : for more than 60 years an authority 1918. HERE are two distinct meth- ods of propagating- Rose plants or bushes. One by budding or grafting a small bud or graft of the true Rose onto the root of wild manettia, sweetbriar or ru- gosa, and the other is by growing them on their own roots. The first method is the one employed by Euro- pean growers. The cost of producing a budded plant is very small; first, on account of the cheap labor employed, and second, on account of the cost of the wild roots and the bud. A Rose bush will produce a great quantity of eyes, buds
. Dingee guide to rose culture : for more than 60 years an authority 1918. HERE are two distinct meth- ods of propagating- Rose plants or bushes. One by budding or grafting a small bud or graft of the true Rose onto the root of wild manettia, sweetbriar or ru- gosa, and the other is by growing them on their own roots. The first method is the one employed by Euro- pean growers. The cost of producing a budded plant is very small; first, on account of the cheap labor employed, and second, on account of the cost of the wild roots and the bud. A Rose bush will produce a great quantity of eyes, buds or grafts, and each one if used in budding or grafting on wild roots makes a budded or grafted Rose bush, and of course can be sold at a very low price at a good profit. These are the ones sent to America by European growers to nurserymen, seedsmen and de- partment stores, and they can sell them cheaply because they are cheap. The method employed by us to produce an own root plant is to take a branch of the mother plant,. with two, three or more eyes or buds, and place in sand until roots are formed on this branch. It is then planted in pots and grown until they attain the size desired. These plants have to be shifted fre- quently into larger pots. This method of growing Roses in this country is very much more expensive than producing the budded plants, but these own root plants are worth many times more than the budded ones, on account of their lasting qualities. A budded plant has a very weak top or branch, the wild root is the only strong part about it, and as a result the top soon dies and the roots put forth strong shoots, which are neither useful nor ornamen- tal, as they produce no bloom and foliage is unsight- ly. An own root plant after once established is everlasting, as, if the top should be killed, it comes up from the roots stronger than before and of the, same variety as the original. Buying cheap plants to save money is like stopping a clock to save time. Don't
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