56 ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



cut back the young slioots to three or four eyes 

 of tlie wood of the preceding year's growth. 

 "When the pruning of a plant is finished, there 

 should not be one shoot crossing another, and 

 every shoot or branch should stand free and 

 straight. The plants require manure or rich com- 

 post dug in among their roots once a year, unless 

 the ground is of a very rich nature ; in that case 

 once in two years will be sufficient. If some of 

 the plants are pruned in JSTovember, and others 

 in March, or after the foliage begins to appear, it 

 will make about eight or ten days' difference in 

 their time of blooming. This practice is often 

 resorted to in Europe, which greatly retards their 

 bloom in cool or moist climates ; but with us the 

 results are not so decisive, though quite percepti- 

 ble. Many of the sorts sucker freely ; in such cases 

 the superfluous ones should be removed in the 

 spring, and planted where wanted, or destroyed. 



VARIETIES OF ROSA GALLICA. 



STRIPED, SPOTTED, AND MARBLED. 



To Rosa Gallica we are indebted for nearly all 

 these curiously spotted, mottled, and striped roses 

 recently brought into cultivation. The very old 



