In My Garden
"Whatever happens," a nurseryman once said to me, " there is never a slump in the sale of flowers." Today there is a boom. Numbers of nurseries are completely sold out of certain stocks, especially bedding roses of any sort, and there is a general hunt through country hedges for briars as budding stocks. Many of us would like to urge nurserymen to grow roses from cuttings, not by budding on briars. We hold, with that great authority Robinson, that they last longer and do better on their own roots, and, of course, we are relieved from the continual nuisance of suckers. Most private gardeners would be willing to pay higher prices for bedding roses on their own roots. The advantage of using the vigour of the wild stock is largely a myth, given currency because multiplication is quicker by the budding method. A man and a boy can do a hundred and more within a few hours.
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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