Modern roses of the hybrid-perpetual and hybrid-tea types may be bought of several reliable dealers for twenty-five dollars per hundred, in two conditions, either grown on their own roots or budded on Manette or brier stock.  Personally I prefer the first or natural condition, if the constitution of the plant is sufficiently vigorous to warrant it.  There are, however, many indispensable varieties that do better for the infusion of vigorous brier blood.  A budded rose will show the junction by a little knob where the bud was inserted; this must be planted at least three inches below ground so that new shoots will be encouraged to spring from above the bud, as those below are merely wild, worthless suckers, to be removed as soon as they appear.

[Illustration:  A CONVENIENT ROSE BED.]

How can you tell wild suckers from the desired growth?  At first by following them back to the root until you have taken their measure, but as soon as experience has enlightened you they will be as easily recognized at sight as the mongrel dog by a connoisseur.  Many admirable varieties, like Jacqueminot, Anne de Diesbach, Alfred Colomb, Madame Plantier, and all the climbers, do so well on their own roots that it is foolish to take the risk of budded plants, the worse side of which is a tendency to decay at the point of juncture.  Tea roses, being of rapid growth and flowering wholly upon new wood, are perfectly satisfactory when rooted from cuttings.

Of many well-attested varieties of hybrid perpetuals, hybrid China, or other so-called June roses, you may at the start safely select from the following twenty.

Pink, of various shades

1.  Anne de Diesbach.  One of the most fragrant, hardy, and
altogether satisfactory of hybrid
perpetual roses.  Forms a large bush,
covered with large deep carmine-pink
flowers.  Should be grown on own root.
2.  Paul Neyron.  Rose pink, of large size, handsome
even when fully open.  Fragrant and
hardy.
3.  Cabbage, or Rose The Provence rose of history and old
of 100 Leaves. gardens, supposed to have been known
to Pliny.  Rich pink, full, fragrant,
and hardy.  Own roots.
4.  Magna Charta.  A fine fragrant pink rose of the
hybrid China type.  Not seen as often
as it should be.  Own roots.
5.  Clio.  A vigorous grower with flesh-coloured
and pink-shaded blossoms.
6.  Oakmont.  Exquisite deep rose, fragrant,
vigorous, and with a long blooming
season.

White

7.  Marchioness of Free, full, and fragrant.  Immense
Londonderry. cream-white flowers, carried on long
stems.  Very beautiful.
8.  Madame Plantier A medium-sized, pure white rose,
(Hybrid China). with creamy centre;