74: ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



only the luxuriant beauty of the foliage and the 

 large size of the flowers will be lost. It must be 

 admitted that plants, trees, and shrubs, grown and 

 protected by nature, are in their greatest beauty, 

 and bring forth their flowers, fruits, and seeds to 

 perfection ; yet while this is conceded, we say that 

 those plants brought up and nurtured by art, under 

 every exciting cause, to produce the greatest 

 amount of wood, foliage, flowers, and fruits, also 

 require skilful assistance in depriving them of 

 their superabundance to keep them within bounds, 

 and lead them to the space they are intended to 

 occupy. The period best adapted for pruning is 

 subject to various opinions ; but extensive prac- 

 tice and sound judgment give the preference to the 

 months of Kovember and December. Pruning in 

 the spring should be avoided, as the sap is then 

 drawn towards the extremities of the shoots, and 

 when these are shortened the lower buds will be 

 found more dormant, and will require some time 

 to move, whereas, by fall pruning, the sap in the 

 spring flows instantly to the buds that are left on 

 the plant, which are at once strengthened, and 

 prepared to push out as early as the season Tvdll 

 permit. The first season after roses are trans- 

 planted they should be watered once or twice a' 

 week in dry weather, or should have placed all 



