DESTROY ROSE SUCKERS
Rose trees are budded on a stoc-K, usually of the wild English briar, or a foreign stock such as Manetti or rugosa. All stocks are liable to produce shoots and these, of course, are useless. As soon as the rose grower notices these “stock” growths they should be cut away. They use up valuable sap and take away vigour from the proper variety worked on that stock. Bush roses send up these unwanted shoots from below the soil level; half standard and standard roses may produce them at any point, but generally at the top half of the stem, while sucker shoots on weeping standards are commonly produced close to the head. Suckers are not difficult to detect. The leaves are generally coarser, smaller, paler in colour than those of the true rose, while the stem is often set with larger thorns, and is thicker. Suckers on bush roses should be traced to their origin and pulled out; those on standards must be cut off close to the stem.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 732, 3 August 1929, Page 28
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