74 PICTORIAL PRACTICAL ROSE GROWING. 
(Continued from page 70.) 
back is not advisable. Thinning may be resorted to if the trees 
threaten to become crowded, and in this case the oldest wood 
may be cut right out to give room for new wood, which will 
bloom well when mature. 
Pruning Crimson Rambler Rose. 
The immense popularity of Crimson Rambler renders a few 
words on its management obligatory. 
There is reason to fear that the wonderful luxuriance of this 
grand Rose will lead to cultural neglect. It will. be regarded as 
capable of looking after itself. So it is, if it is given an open 
situation and deep, fertile soil. But that is not to say that it 
may not be improved by skilled attention. 
The freedom of growth which characterises Crimson Rambler 
may easily be its bane, for it tends, by the accumulated shoots 
of years, to become a thicket. The old wood, which has flow- 
ered once, twice, or more, becomes weak, and the young growth, 
which gives the finest flowers, has not sufficient space to develop 
and ripen. 
Anyone who makes a beginning with a young plant which 
has only one shoot should cut it down close to the ground. A 
new shoot will push strongly, and may be lightly shortened the 
following spring. 
In the second season, if not the first, flowering side shoots 
will break freely, and at the same time young growths will 
spring up from the base, which will bloom the following year. 
If the soil is good, and the plant healthy, shoots will push 
up from the base every year, and it is the business of the grower 
to take advantage of this fact, and thin out periodically old 
canes which have done duty, taking care, of course, to retain a 
few canes in aripe, flowering state. 
(References to Fig. 35, page 75.) 
PICTORIAL PRACTICE.—PLAIN HINTS IN FEW WORDS. 
FIG. 35.—PRUNING CRIMSON RAMBLER. 
@, a tree at the third winter pruning after planting: 0, point of cutting 
down a one shoot plant in spring after planting, and only one shoot 
retained in the following summer; yp, point of shortening the shoot 
produced in the preceding summer; q, flowered shoots; 7, young shoots 
for furnishing the space evenly. In this case the flowered 
branches are shown shortened to within about two buds of 
their .base, this being advisable where there is a great deficiency 
of young shoots from the bottom of the stem and along it. Where 
there is a fair supply of young wood it is not advisable to prune 
very closely, but to leave about three good buds, as shown in the 
flowered shoot ats. With plenty of young shoots the best plan is to 
