THE ROSE GARDEN. 

 No. 13. 



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Close Pruning complete. 



Practice alone can inform us correctly which they are ; and we give the result of 

 our practice with some varieties in the Second Division of this work.* But it 

 should be remembered that the plan of pruning must be regulated in some measure 

 by the object sought. We have been treating of it with the view of forming 

 handsome plants, and producing flowers in the greatest degree of beauty. But 

 where the object is merely to enrich and ornament the garden by a great display ; 

 where the aim is to have a mass of bloom, and the individual size and form of 

 the flowers are not of first importance ; a less rigorous system should be adopted. 

 Prune, then, only just so much as seems necessary to keep the trees in health 

 and shape. 



But there are particular forms which Roses are capable of taking, and these 

 are in a great measure brought about by pruning and training. Such are Pillar 

 Roses and Weeping Roses. 



3. Pillar or Pole Roses. — Most kinds may be formed into pillars, short or tall ; 

 but the kinds usually understood by this term are such as will reach at least to 

 six feet. There are many beautiful Roses which will do this ; and some kinds, 

 when established, grow as if there would be no end to them. 



It is in this instance thought unnecessary to show the plant in its first year s 

 growth. 



No. 14 is a representation of a young plant possessed of five shoots. It had 



* The terms " robust," " vigorous," " moderate," and " dwarf," attached to the varieties in 

 the descriptive part of this work, will be found almost invariably a correct guide in pruning. 



