

FOREIGN NOTICES. 



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Pruning Roses. — The introduction of a wood-cut of a closely-pruned Rose in last year's 

 Almanac, induced some subscribers to ask for more information -which it seemed to foreshadow ; 

 we therefore present the following general instructions. It is, however, hoped that the practical 

 ideas will be of such assistance to the amateur, as to prevent the 

 ail-but fatal operations generally performed under the above title; 

 neither can an attempt be made to particularize tlie treatment 

 necessary for the several families ; their growth, to which our 

 subject alone refers, will be readily comprehended by the terms 

 luxuriant or short growing, and tender. Budded Roses when re- 

 ceived from the Nursery are generally one year old, and during 

 the first season the knife must be sparinglj- used ; but after all 

 chance of severe frost has disappeared (early in April,) the branch- 

 es should be cut back to four or five eyes, having previously cut 

 out all growth that interferes with the shape the sketches illus- 

 trate, being especially careful in performing the former operation, 

 to cut to an outer bud. The following illustration (fig. 1,) of a 

 budded Ilj-brid Perpetual, when received from the IS'urscry, 

 shows, by tlie marks, where the knife is to be used ; and further 

 to exemplify the great advantage of adhering to this principle, 

 the next sketch (fig. 2,) shows the results, after the first pruning, 

 where it has been attended to and where neglected; the single 

 lines showing the former, and the dotted the latter. 



During the following October, any shoots which started in the 

 center of the head, or any cross branches, may be entirely remov- 

 ed; but the shortening the branches leave till April, as the bud 

 to which the branch is cut may be destroyed by frost, &c. ; this 

 would necessarily produce the very growth these directions, when 

 attended to, will prevent. 



"With erect-growing varieties, as Mrs. Elliott (H. P.,) Madle. 

 Arme, &c., the shape of the plants, when young, may be often 

 much improved by ligatures, training the branches into a more 

 outward direction. 



In shortening the shoots of the majority of Hj-brid Perpetuals, 

 four or five eyes should be left; but when of luxuriant growth, 

 as Louis Bonaparte, <fec., shorten the branches to about half their 

 length, and with the more robust summer-blooming varieties, take 

 off about one-third only, keeping the center of the head well- 

 thinned ; any thing like short pruning, with such subjects, being productive of abundant wood 

 and scanty blossoms. 



In the short-growing Hybrid Perpetuals and Bourbons two or three eyes are sufficient to be 

 left ; in the tender Tea-scented and Chinas, all weakly growth should be removed, and the 

 shortening the branches must be performed with care; and, as in several varieties the eyes are 

 far apart (recollecting the previous directions,) the amateur must use his own discretion 

 Dwarf, Moss, and Provence Roses can scarcely be pruned too severely • the Persian Y 



