If they are planted in open sunny borders, with no shade or hedge-mulching, they suffer greatly from drought.
_Flowers, like human beings, are, to some extent, creatures of habit._ They get used to many things which they can't at all abide once in a way.

If your Little Garden (like mine) is part of a wandering establishment, here to-day and there to-morrow, you may get even your roses into very good habits of moving good-humouredly, and making themselves quickly at home.

If plants from the first are accustomed to being moved about,--every year, or two years,--they do not greatly resent it.

A real "old resident," who has pushed his rootlets far and wide, and never tried any other soil or aspect, is very slow to settle elsewhere, even if he does not die of _nostalgia_ and nervous shock! In making cuttings, consider the habits and customs of the parent plant.

If it has been grown in heat, the cuttings will require heat to start them.