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It is well, therefore, to grow several plants of this 
kind, pruning a few each year. Like other Roses 
that are required to form tine and handsome heads, 
they must be shortened down to four or five buds 
the first season of planting. 
The Hybrid Perpetual, Damask Perpetual, Per- 
petual Moss, and Bourbon Roses may be pruned 
from the beginning to the end of March. By 
pruning a few at the beginning, and others towards 
the latter end of the month, the blooming season will 
be prolonged, and the same result may be obtained 
by adopting this system with the summer-blooming 
as well as all other kinds. The varieties of Hybrid 
Perpetual Roses are so numerous that there will 
naturally be found a very great difference in their 
habit of growth, some being quite dwarf,’ others 
robust, and a few even sufficiently vigorous to form 
pillar or pole Roses. The dwarf as well as the more 
moderate growers will require to be pruned down to 
two or three eyes, and the weak and crowded shoots 
to be taken out. The robust will require the same 
thinning out of superfluous wood, while the strong 
shoots must be pruned down to six or eight inches 
in length, and the smaller ones to four or five. As 
all perpetual Roses produce blooms upon every or 
nearly every shoot, it will be no difficult matter to 
prune these so as to have a continuous show of 
blooms ; but to have flowers of good size and 
quality, as well as to keep the plant in proper 
form, some little judgment must be exercised. 
The Damask Perpetual and Perpetual Moss may be 
pruned as recommended for the Hybrid Perpetuals. 
