Excerpt from The Garden; Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in All Its Branches, Vol. 37: Midsummer, 1890Our first batch of Roses - from a distance this year were lifted and came a hundred miles about the middle of October. These were planted on arrival, and so rapidly did they take to their new quarters, that now these earliest planted Roses look the forwardest and plumpest budded on the place.Nor is this at all a solitary instance. Early root disturbance seems to prompt an early start and abnormal activity of root growth. And doubtless it is of vital importance to the future safety of the Roses that this growth should have made consider able progress before it is suddenly and severely arrested, perhaps killed, through cold. As the new roots get larger and consequently hardier, there is less risk of injury, and here possibly one of the strongest reasons for the exceptionally high life rate of early planted Roses. D.

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