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The Persian Yellow rose, Harrison's Yellow, and Austrian Brier are not 

 strong growers. One must be cautious with the knife, cutting out the 

 flowering wood after the blooms fade. In established plants the worn-out 

 stems can be removed at any time. Scotch roses can be treated in the same 

 way, and are much benefited by being cut clean to the ground once in about 

 seven years. Their habit of spreading by underground stems helps the 

 recovery. 



3. Wild roses, R. blanda, Carolina, liicida, nitida, etc., are grown not 

 only for the flowers, but for bright twigs and hips, in winter. Consequently 

 much depends upon sturdy growth. They are frequently planted in such 

 quantity that careful pruning is impossible. Take out the older wood 

 from time to time, and at intervals of several years, determined by their 

 condition, cut clean to the ground, at the same time giving manure and 

 stirring the soil. An equally good method of renewal is to dig up and 

 reset the plants, discarding the old and feeble. 



Rosa rugosa and its variety alba do not require annual pruning, unless 

 it be a little shortening-in of the tips — an interminable operation. After 

 these plants are well established, however, the older canes should be cut 

 out occasionally, thus keeping the center free and encouraging new growths. 

 If at any time they are in bad shape from winter-killing or disease, they can 

 be cut to the ground. Hybrids of Rosa rugosa, like Madame Bruant, are 

 helped by spring pruning, cutting back the annual growths, and thinning 

 out old wood. 



4. Tender roses, like the teas. Chinas, Bengals, and Bourbons, should 

 be cut in at the beginning of the flowering season, and, since they are really 

 perpetual bloomers, this process must be continued as long as the season 

 lasts. Weak and unproductive shoots must be removed. Cloth of Gold, 

 Lamarque, Marechal Niel, and other roses of like habit, are closely pruned 

 after their wood is well ripened, when they are most at rest. Under glass, 

 this is usually done just before starting them into growth. To bloom the 

 Cherokee rose in a cool greenhouse in January and February, four-fifths of 

 the summer's growth must be cut away in October. Worn-out canes can 

 be removed at any time. The double-flowered varieties of R. Bauksia; 

 are severely cut back after the blooms have faded, in May or June, in a 

 cool house. 



Many methods are employed in propagating roses, but the practice here 

 described is simple and effective. Cuttings can be rooted in the garden or in 



