OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



with soft woollen string. This latter course of prun- 

 ing is usually carried out with roses of the bedding 

 type, on which the blooms are seldom fine enough 

 for cutting; but so treated, the plants form a mass 

 of color and are used for this reason for garden 

 decoration. 



Where high pruning is used it must be understood 

 that with such treatment the stems will gradually 

 become shorter and weaker, and the individual blooms 

 less beautiful than where the plant is cut back by 

 the ordinary method, but there will be a greater 

 number of blooms. In the illustration of Daily Mail 

 pruned high and low, the growth on the plant pruned 

 high was the result of hard cutting back the previous 

 season. If the high pruning is carried out a second 

 year there will not be new strong growths such as 

 those obtained by the low pruning. 



The best and usually accepted way of pruning 

 roses for cutting is to prune for the finest blooms. 

 As a general working rule prune the strongest varie- 

 ties to five buds or eyes, about six to ten inches, on 

 the main strong canes, the small weaker canes being 

 cut to three or four eyes, about six inches. 



A plant can always be made to grow in any given 

 direction by cutting to a bud which leads in that 

 direction; e.g., in order to spread the plant, if the 

 fifth eye is on the inside of plant, cut to the eye 



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