MENACE TO WILD ROSES
1 A new line of business that has liecome comparatively profitable in recent years in England is that of the men who supply the growers of standard roses with briars from the hedges. Bach grower has three or four men on whom he relies, and if a man strikes a good district he will get about 100 briar roots a day, which he sells for a pound. Owing to the shortage of briars, some growers are using a Japanese rose, the rugosa, for stock, but so long as any dog and field roses remain, so - long will they be taken, for they ore better than tlie rugosa. The farmers do not mind, because wild roses cause discomfort to cattle.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1929, Page 13
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123MENACE TO WILD ROSES Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1929, Page 13
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