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Plantations of Roses should be made to succeed each 

 other. In the second and third years after planting, the 

 Rose will be in its greatest perfection. After the plants 

 become old, they do not do so well ; and I have found, in 

 my own experience, that five years was long enough to 

 contmue a plantation. It is best then to prepare a new 

 place, or, in fact, it should be prepared, and the new plan- 

 tation made, a year before the old one is given up, as a 

 general and perfect bloom cannot be expected the first 

 year. 



It is becoming fashionable, at the present time, to j^lant 

 out Roses in masses, which have a fine efiect, where the 

 white, the crimson, or other distinct colors, are planted 

 by themselves. Many of the strong-growing sorts are 

 suitable for planting with other shrubs in the shrubbery. 



Pruning. — Roses, in tliis climate, should be j^runed 

 early in the spring. For Roses that are grown as dwarfs, 

 it is necessary to prune them down to a few buds ; all the 

 old wood, and the weak, last year's growth, should be 

 taken entirely away. The young wood generally produces 

 the finest flowers, which, when properly pruned, are larger 

 and much more double than when the bushes are suffered 

 to grow at random. 



In pruning climbing Roses, the operation must be dif- 

 ferent, as it is necessary to retain the whole length of the 

 most vigorous shoots, cutting out all the old Avood that 

 will not be likely to produce fine flowers, and pruning 

 down the lateral branches to one eye. The manner of 

 pruning must, in a measure, depend upon the variety of 

 the Rose, and more particularly upon the style in which it 

 is to be trained. This must be left to the ingenuity and 

 taste of the cultivator ; and whether it is to be trained to 

 a trellis, over an arch, pillar, or in whatever shape it is 

 wanted, the proper way will generally suggest itself. 



Propagation. — The Rose is propagated in various A^^ays. 



