PICTORIAL PRACTIOAL ROSE GROWING. 
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PICTORIAL PRACTICE.—PLAIN HINTS IN FEW WORDS. 
FIG. 29.—PEGGED-DOWN ROSES.—I. BRANCHES LEFT LONG. 
A, one year old plant of a vigorous growing Rose cut down close to 
the ground, or to within three buds of the junction of stock and 
scion: a, point of shortening the maiden (the first growth from 
the Rose bud) in the spring after planting; 4, vigorous shoots 
developing from the buds, all others (unless very strong) being 
rubbed off. 
B, two years old plant of a vigorous growing Rose, showing the 
difference between pruning fora dwarf and a pegged-down plant: 
c, points of pruning for a dwarf plant; d, points of shortening 
for pegging down, only the unripe points of the growths being 
removed ; ¢, pruned shoots pegged down, thus causing the buds 
to break evenly along their whole length; f, strong shoots 
issuing from the base of the branches, and which, aliowed to 
prow in the desired number, form the growths for pegging down 
in the following season, the other branches that have flowered 
heing cut away in their favour in the autumn after blooming. 
C, a developed pegged-down Rose showing the flowered and succes- 
sional growths: g, flowered branches (pegged-down shoots of 
the preceding year’s growth); 2, young successional shoots for 
pegging down to take the place of the flowered branches when 
the latter are cut away to the base. [Norz.—Some of the most 
promising of the older branches may be retained, especially those 
with young, strong wood, for covering the space evenly. | 
D, a pruned, established, pegged-down Rose: 7, one year old shoots 
shortened and pegged down; J, two years old branches spur 
pruned and retained for furnishing the space evenly with foliage 
and bloom when there is not a sufficiency of young shoots. 
