66 THE ROSE GAHDEN. 



No. 11. No. 12. 



Close Pruning, Stage I. Close Pruning, Stage 2. 



thin and weakly, wholly unfitted to remain. Even if they exist in a favourable 

 position, it must he an extreme case to justify us in leaving them. Rather 

 would we go a little out of the way to secure a good shoot, as such offers 

 a better chance of perfecting our plan. Be it observed, the shoots left after thin- 

 ning are shortened in closer here than in No. 8. This tree looks a complete 

 stump, and, as a Summer Rose, will probably not bloom the first year. But 

 supposing it to be an Autumnal, it will then assuredly bloom the first Autumn, 

 and probably during Summer. 



No. 12 represents this tree taken from another point of view, as it appears the next 

 vear. Here, as in long pruning, we see the addition of branches has been great, 

 and we thin out in Autumn the shoots shewn by the single lines, and shorten the 

 others where shaded, in Spring, as before. This we do on the supposition that it 

 is an excitable kind : if not so, we complete the operation at once, by shortening 

 in Autumn. 



No. 13 shews a full-grown plant to which close pruning has been applied. 



Most persons prefer plants budded in two places: we have therefore given 

 examples of such. For my own part, I like a plant with a single bud best. It is 

 enough for every purpose, and the head is more easily fashioned. It is thought 

 not necessary to give an example of such ; for to know how to prune a plant pro- 

 perly with two buds renders the dealing with a single bud extremely simple. 



It would seem well to mention here, that a modification of long and close 

 pruning, which we call moderate pruning, is necessary for certain varieties. 



