OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



if there is too great a distance from that base to the 

 top of the lateral, limb, or cane. 



Roses will differ in growth and the strongest 

 growers will naturally throw out more buds on any 

 given length of cane than the weaker. In addition 

 to this, plants of low spreading growth, whose canes 

 grow more or less parallel to the ground, do not 

 send their sap as quickly to the ends of the growth 

 as do plants whose canes are more upright. For this 

 reason different varieties require somewhat different 

 pruning, and in our list we have given the number 

 of eyes or buds to which each variety should be cut 

 back, provided, of course, the wood has not been 

 winter killed below the point indicated. Returning 

 to the theory of the sap and the illustration of the 

 cane with fifteen buds : we cut off, say, ten of these 

 buds from the cane and the five remaining will 

 receive just so much more sap and there will be that 

 much more chance of the lowest buds breaking and 

 sending out their shoots. If the cane were not cut 

 the greater part of the sap would go to the few top 

 buds and the lower buds would be late in growing, 

 some possibly not breaking at all. Nature prunes 

 the weaker varieties by killing back a portion of 

 their wood, thus causing them to throw up strong, 

 new canes. 



It will readily be understood that the larger the 



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