THE ROSE. 



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Fig. 54. 



ducing flowers the following year. Each of these cases 



may be taken as an example 



of the mode of pruning the 



numerous strong- growing Roses 



on the Dog Rose as standards 



or dwarfs, and the Briers 



also. 



It is absolutely necessary to 

 get a strong growth annually 

 on all Roses, in order to obtain 

 fine flowers, especially in the 

 case of the Austrian Brier. But 

 at the same time particular 

 attention must be paid to the 

 specific manner of pruning, or 

 no flowers will be had after all. 

 There are two causes why so 

 many people fail to grow the 

 Austrian Brier well. The first 

 is that the Rose is not grown strong enough to get 



ffood flowers, and the 

 second is m conse- 

 quence of the first 



failing, the growth not 

 being strong, or rather 



the ground not being 



good enough, the R,ose 



cannot supply wood to 



meet the demand that 



must necessarily be 



made upon this class to 



maintain year by year 



both wood and flowers 



at the same time. And 



as there is not a supply 



of good wood the flowers 



are poor and puny, and 



the indiscriminate way 



in which it is pruned 



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Fig. 55. 



proves fatal as regards a crop of flowers. This, like all 



