Mr. A. Williams, Sharon, Pa., writes: "This winter my Sunset roses have shown in a marked degree a tendency or disposition to make blind instead of flowering wood, and I venture the inquiry, doesn't the practice of propagating from blind shoots make the matter worse than it would be were the young plants struck from flowering shoots ? My practice has been to strike all the blind wood, and thereby get as many buds as possible, and i incline to the belief that this practice is general among florists, for I have talked with a number this winter and they all do the same way as myself with any new or scarce varieties.

I think that this trait or habit to make blind wood can be transmitted to the progeny of a rose, or any other plant, by continually propagating from such blind wood. If like begets like, why not in a rose as well as other things ?

Let some of the older heads, who have made the rose a specialty, enlighten the readers of the Monthly on this subject. It may be that I am alone in this complaint, but I think I am not, as I have seen a good many beds of Sunset this winter and there were too many blind shoots in all of them".