THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



Climbing rose. Leave 

 only dark branches. 



you wish very beautiful roses, then thin 

 the plants, leaving only five or six stems 

 on a hybrid perpetual rose, three or four 

 stems on tea-roses. 



Finally, shorten the stems, cutting 

 back the hybrid perpetuals to five or six 

 "eyes " from the ground, while the "teas " 

 should be left with three or four. The 

 last "eye" should always be on the out- 

 side, that the rose may branch out, not 

 in. Gather and burn the pieces unless 

 you wish to make cuttings. Then spray 

 your roses with the lime-sulphur wash to 

 prevent scale. 



For roses of fine quality prune as on 



page 127. All of the branches which are not black are taken 

 off. Make a smooth, clean cut, just above 

 an outside "eye." This is the way to prune 

 Crimson Rambler, Jacqueminot, Kaiserin, 

 American Beauty, and other strong growers. 



For rose-bushes with plenty of flowers, 

 but not of extra size, prune as in Figure 5, 

 cutting off about half of the last year's growth 

 and, of course, removing suckers and dead 

 wood. 



Teas and hybrid teas are best not pruned 

 until they begin to show signs of life and the 

 bark becomes greener. In the North this 

 will be in April. All dead or dying wood 

 should be removed then, even if it seems 

 that such drastic pruning would leave nothing to the unfor- 

 tunate rose-bush with which to begin life again. 



128 



Cut back a newly 

 planted rose. The 

 dotted line shows 

 the depth of plant- 

 ing. 



