186 DESCRIPTION OF THE ROSE. 



the flower-stems to three or four eyes as soon as the 

 flower-buds form. When the flowers fade, these also 

 should be cut off with the stems that bear them, in a 

 similar manner. The formation of the seed-vessels, by 

 employing the vitality of the plant, tends greatly to dimin- 

 ish its autumn bloom. Give additional manure every 

 year, and keep the ground open, and free of weeds. If 

 rank, strong shoots, full of redundant sap, form in summer, 

 check their disproportioned growth by cutting off their 

 tops. 



In the North, these roses are better for a little winter 

 protection, such as earthing them up at the base, or thrust- 

 ing pine-boughs into the soil among them. They may 

 with great advantage be taken up as often as once in three 

 years, and replanted after two or three shovelfuls of old 

 manure have been dug into the soil, which, at the same 

 time, should be forked to the greatest possible depth. In- 

 deed, it does them no harm to replant them yearly : on 

 the contrary, they generally bloom the better for it. 



An excellent way to preserve them during winter, when 

 they have been taken out of the ground, is to bury them, 

 root and branch, ia earth. The earth for this purpose 

 should not be very moist. The place selected should be 

 sheltered and dry; the latter point being of the last 



