My experience for the last thirty years in importing Hybrid Perpetual Roses on their own root?, which I have done considerably from France, England and Germany, has been a complete failure; no matter what the age of the plants was, or the prices paid for them, they never had the vigor, constitution, or growth, of those that parts of Georgia produce; and probably in a great many more sections of the Southern States like results could be obtained if tested. Parts of Georgia seem to be some of the best known sections for that purpose. The mode of propagation is so cheap, that when the grower gets in quantity the sorts required for our Northern market, I consider that it will stop shipments of roses from, and perhaps send roses to Europe on their own roots; as I consider that good plants can be grown for less cost in this, than in any other section of any country that I have ever heard of. When pruning in my Hybrid Perpetual Rose houses, the latter part of November last, I sent all the wood for cuttings to a florist in Savannah, Geo. A friend of mine returned from that place January 8th, 1886, and states that there was any quantity of the cuttings rooted before he left there.

Cuttings are likely to make plants three to five feet high, by next Fall. They are grown as follows: the cuttings are planted in rows about six inches apart with a space of about three feet between each row; and if the cuttings are put in at the proper season and the ground kept clean from weeds by a horse cultivator, (scarcely any hand labor being required after the cuttings are planted) they will have from 90 to 95 per cent. to grow.

There is no other place that I have ever heard of where the same results could be obtained for the same cost; and I consider that if the same energy, ability and capital were invested in a Georgia rose nursery, that there is shown in some rose nurseries in France and England, the results in profits would be much greater, as they make better plants in one half the time and are on their own roots, which is generally preferred, except in very few varieties. Astoria, L. I., Jan. 12th, 1886.