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pruned very near, cutting off all the small shoots 

 and onely leaving the biggest, cutting off the tops 

 of them also as far as they are small ; then in the 

 spring, when tke buds for leaves comes forth, rub 

 off the smallest of them, leaving onely some few 

 of the biggest, which, by reason of the strength 

 of the stock affording more nourishment than any 

 other and the agreeable nature of the Single 

 Yellow Eose, from whence it is immediately 

 nourished, the shoots will be then strong and able 

 to bear out the flowers if they be not too many, 

 which may be prevented by nipping off the 

 smallest buds for flowers, leaving only such a 

 number of the fairest as the tree may be able to 

 bring to perfection, which tree should stand some- 

 thing shadowed and not too much in the heat of 

 the sun, and in a standard by itself rather than 

 under a wall. These rules being observed, we 

 may expect to enjoy the full delight of these 

 beautiful roses, as I myself have often done by 

 my own practice in divers trees so handled, which 

 have yearly borne store of fair flowers, when those 

 that were natural, notwithstanding all the helps 

 I could use, have not brought forth one that was 

 kindly, but all of them either broken or, as it 

 were, blasted.' 



