vi PRUNING 109 
with plenty of room for extension on either side. 
The roots may be inside or out, but in either case 
ample provision must be made for the supply of 
abundance of rich food. The Rose should be 
completely cut back at the time of planting to 
within an inch or two of the stock. When it 
begins to grow, two shoots only should be selected, 
all others being rubbed off, and these should he 
trained horizontally right and left immediately under 
the bottoms of the wires. If still growing when 
they reach the end of the house or as far as it is 
intended to cover, train each up the end wires, and 
should they reach the top, twist them about any- 
where where room can be found but do not break or 
stop them. No pruning whatever will be necessary 
during the following winter, but the plant must 
always be highly fed. The Rose will probably 
bloom freely along the rods in the next spring, and 
as soon as the blooms are over, the upright rods (if 
any) must be cut quite back to the horizontal part, 
from which all shoots must be clean removed. 
We have now left, probably about Apyril, a plant 
shaped like a T, a stem with two simple horizontal 
arms, and this will be the whole of the permanent 
part of the Rose. The horizontal arms will soon 
begin to break in several places, and shoots must be 
trained under the wires about fourteen inches apart, 
all other buds and new shoots being rubbed off. 
The chosen shoots may appear weak at first, but 
they will gain in strength, and the autumn growth, 
if the plant be well nourished, will be very rapid. 
Probably all the shoots will not reach the top of the 
house this year, but they should be allowed to grow 
as far as they will, and to ramble anywhere where 
