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with a sharp knife down to two or three buds ; these 

 will give a second crop of flowers. Strong shoots of 

 Hybrid Perpetuals should be shortened to half their 

 length, unless required on dwarf trees to form 

 pyramids. 



August. — If the weather be dry and scorching, 

 water should be given freely, and the siu-face- dressing 

 renewed. Pruning down the shoots that have given 

 their flowers still to be attended to — they will give 

 September flowers. This, like the last, is a budding 

 month ; and buds, if well selected, will ' take ' well if 

 inserted in healthy free-growing stocks. 



September. — Budding on the Manetti stock may be 

 practised till the end of the second week, with a fair 

 chance of success. Cuttings of all kinds of roses 

 may now be planted in a shady border (see p. 181), 

 with or without hand glasses — the latter often the most 

 successful. 



October. — Cuttings may still be planted, and roses 

 which are required to bloom early in the ensuing season 

 may be procured. About the 20th planting may be 

 commenced. 



November. — The planting, and lifting and replant- 

 ing month (see p. 211) — for all seasons this is the most 

 favourable for planting roses; also a month of pre- 

 paration. Composts and manure should be placed in 

 ridges, to be well frozen through. Freshly planted 

 trees should have the surface dressing recommended 

 imder April, placed round them. Pyramidal roses 

 fjhould be thatched with a conical coating of straw or 

 fern firmly bound (see p. 138), so as not to be dis- 

 placed by violent winds. Buds of Tea-scented and 

 other tender roses may also be protected by a cone of 

 straw fastened to the stock below and above the bud. 



