The Rose Garden 305 



While it injures no rose bush or vine to cut its blossoms, there 

 are some roses which it pays to ignore during the spring pruning. 

 Bourbon roses will not bloom on new wood -- therefore the shears 

 should be used very lightly on the old. Rugosas and briers, too, 

 require little attention unless the old canes become bark bound. 

 As for the pillar roses, their situation and use would best dictate 

 their treatment, for on lattices their lateral shoots need encourage 

 ment to spread by shortening the top leaders, while on posts the 

 laterals will be cut back to an eye or two as an inducement for 

 the vine to lengthen and twine. Teas and hybrid teas resent hard 

 pruning. Unless the shoots are very weak, do not remove them, 

 but merely cut back their tops a little after the stems grow green 

 and the dormant buds begin to swell in the spring. Not till then 

 can one know how much dead wood needs to be cut away. Strong 

 perpetuals need hard pruning. 



There are those, perhaps, to whom the care that some roses 

 require seems too great for the reward, but such captious critics 

 can never have known the ineffable joy that comes to the amateur 

 who grows to perfection the queen of flowers. 



THE ROSARIAN S CALENDAR 



The following dates, based on an average season in the 

 neighbourhood of New York, are by Capt, A. Ward. Allow four 

 days for every hundred miles of latitude. 



Use no insecticides or fungicides unless there be need. 



March i$th Finish pruning hardy roses already planted. 



March ^yh Plant new hardy roses, pruning new plants 

 rather more severely than those of the same varieties already 

 established. 



April iyh Finish pruning the tender varieties as far as 



