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check the sap and so ripen the shoot, and it is from the 

 " eyes " which will then be developed that the flowers the 

 following season will be produced. 



INSTRUCTION XXXVII. 



PEGGED DO WN ROSES. Prune in March. 

 Only a few of the longest and best shoots on each 

 plant should be retained. After cutting off the ends of 

 these long shoots they should be carefully bent and 

 pegged down horizontally to within a few inches of the 

 soil. In the following year the shoots that have flowered 

 should be cut away and the strong young growths 

 pegged down in their place. 



INSTRUCTION XXXVIII. 



ROSES IN POTS UNDER Gl< ASS. -Prune early in 

 January. 



The soil in the pots should be allowed to become 

 fairly dry before the plants are pruned. 



The first year the plants should be pruned rather 

 hard, that is to say, all the sappy, weak, and crowded 

 shoots should be removed and the well-ripened ones that 

 remain shortened back to two or three " eyes." In the 

 second and following years the pruning should be less 

 severe. After the removal of the dead wood and any 

 weak or crowded growths in the centre of the plant, the 

 remaining shoots should be pruned from one-third to 

 one-half their length, the stronger growths being left 

 the longer of the two. The aim should be to obtain a 

 well-balanced plant with the good shoots as equally 

 distributed round it as possible. These directions apply 

 to the Hybrid Perpetuals, the Hybrid Teas, and the 

 Teas, while the varieties in the other sections must be 



