PRUNING 



been previously noted. Nature thus provides for 

 the greatest amount of sustenance going to the 

 seed pod. By autumn, if blooms are not cut but 

 pinched, the plant is more bushy and has perhaps 

 somewhat better foliage. In the cutting of the stems 

 be careful to leave enough buds below the cut on 

 the shoot to provide other shoots, which will later 

 in the season give more blooms. On the stronger 

 varieties in the June blooming season, on a Hybrid 

 Tea rose or a rose which is expected to bloom again, 

 leave enough buds to give shoots for summer and 

 for autumn bloom. Therefore, in such cuttings leave 

 never less than two buds at the base of the shoot, 

 and with very strong varieties three buds, always 

 seeing that the bud is a strong one. If a long stem 

 is left on the plant more flowers will be produced but 

 they will not be on such stalwart stems, nor will 

 they produce as fine blooms. If cutting from a 

 Hybrid Perpetual, or from a rose from which no 

 more bloom is expected, to cut to one bud will be 

 sufficient. In this cutting of blooms, the same as 

 in pruning, follow the well-known theory that on a 

 weak growth you can cut farther back than on a 

 strong growth. If, however, the plant is uneven hi 

 growth, care must be used to aid the spring pruning 

 of such a plant by following out the work already 



started and cutting back harder on the stronger side. 



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