106 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



different sections, it is impossible to give the exact 

 treatment all of them require. Those of vigorous 

 growth should be pruned as advised for other Climb- 

 ing and Pillar Roses, while the bush and dwarf 

 varieties should be only thinned out, and the points 

 of the remaining shoots removed. The few dwarf 

 Hybrid Perpetuals bearing single flowers should, 

 however, be rather severely pruned. 



Pegging down Roses. — When suitable varieties are 

 selected, this way of growing Roses in beds has much 

 to commend itself ; indeed, in no other way can such 

 a number of blooms of the larger-flowered Roses like 

 the Hybrid Perpetuals be obtained from the same 

 number of plants. In the spring only a few of the 

 longest and best shoots on each plant should be re- 

 tained. After cutting off just the ends of these long 

 shoots they should be carefully bent and pegged down 

 to within a few inches of the soil. In the following 

 spring the shoots that have flowered should be cut 

 away, and the strong young growths pegged down 

 in their place. 



