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left in. They make fine bushes and bushy standards^ 

 Do not prune back too hard, but thin well. 



(a) Hermosa, also known as Armosa. A variety 

 with all the freedom of the Chinas, to be grown as a low 

 spreading bush, some 2-ft. high. Fellenberg (Noisette) 

 may be pruned much in this way, or it will make a good 

 medium pillar. 



(b) Large flowering kinds, making bold fine bushes, 

 very fine standards, and excellent for pegging down,. 

 They should be pruned much in the way of the tall 

 garden H.P.'s (see Instruction VI.), keeping Malmaison 

 rather dwarfer. 



(a) (b) _ 



Hermosa or Armosa. Mme. Isaac Pereire. 



Mrs. Paul. 

 Souvenir de la Malmaison 



INSTRUCTION XXVII. 



CHINAS. Prune in March. 



Dwarf ever -blooming varieties from indica and 

 semperflorens, which for pruning purposes may be 

 divided into two sections. 



(a) Those which make 2-ft. bushes or dwarf climbers 

 and hedges, and which must be thinned rather than 

 hard pruned. 



(b) The dwarfer kinds which should be cut back to a 

 few " eyes " from the ground. 



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Cramoisie Superieure. Fabvier. 

 Ducher. Irene Watts. 



Old Blush. Laurette Messimy. 



Mme. Eugene ResaL 



Mrs. Bosanquet. 



Old Crimson. 



Queen Mab. 



Red Pet. 



White Pet. 



