A writer in Harper's Bazar says, "the florists of this country devote but little attention to this branch of floriculture (roses.) " This is certainly news to us, for it is well known that roses are always a staple stock in trade in every well regulated green-house or florioultural garden. Some even make the culture of roses a leading speciality, with eminent success. And all admit that roses form one of the most favorite purchases of ladies, and usually at very remunerative prices.

The same Journal adds: "We would, however, caution our amateur gardeners not to buy grafted roses, whether as standards, half standards or dwarfs. In Europe it is the universal practice to bud or graft roses in this way; the florists do this in order to multiply a new variety more rapidly than they could otherwise do it, as every bud will produce a plant. The standards and half standards have a miserable existence for two or three years, and then die, our hot sun making the tall stem so hide-bound that at last the grafted top can get no supply of sap through it. Tying moss around, and similar devices have been tried to obviate this difficulty, but they do injury in another way, by excluding the air from the stem, which is almost as injurious as the heat of the sun. Roses budded as dwarf, are as a general rule, a nuisance, for the stock has a constant tendency to throw up suckers, which, if not immediately removed, rob the graft; and even with this care, the continual endeavor of the plant to expand its energies in this way, is a great drawback to the proper development of the graft.

Some say that many varieties produce finer flowers or stocks than they do on their own roots, to which we have only to say, that a rose which, with good cultivation, will not produce fine flowers when grown on its own roots, is not worth having for general cultivation".