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How TO REMOVE BLOSSOMS FROM ROSES 



Care should be used in cutting blossoms from roses or the blossom 

 producing properties of the plant may be injured, especially in the per- 

 petual blooming varieties. 



When a rose is cut from a plant of this sort or from tea roses, 

 there should be left only one or two eyes of the current season's growth. 

 By doing this the roses will be given very long stems. Sacrificing so 

 much of the plant should not be regretted if the object is the produc- 

 tion of blooms. 



PRUNING EVERGREENS 



*"Many evergreens are spoiled through a mistaken idea of beauty, 

 by having their lower branches cut off. A long, naked stem is thus 

 formed which is very distasteful to intelligent evergreen planters. An 

 excellent way to preserve a perfect shape is to extract the center bud 

 from any shoot that projects beyond the proper limit." 



"Most of the upright juniper, hemlock, arbor-vitaes and cedars 

 are benefitted by an annual pruning in early spring or late summer, 

 which causes them to improve in appearance. If the leader or main 

 stem of an evergreen is destroyed by accident or otherwise, a new* one 

 may be readily formed by tying up a side branch in as nearly upright 

 position as possible. Two leaders should never be allowed to remain; 

 the stronger should be selected and the other cut away as soon as 

 discovered." 



CLIPPING HEDGES 



Hedges become just what they are made. If one wants a dense 

 mass of foilage of formal line he should prune in the proper way to 

 acquire such sculptural exactness. 



*From extracts from a paper by A. H. Hill, appearing under the heading. "The 

 Care of Evergreens," in the American City. July, 1916. 



