OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



taking your flower to provide other shoots, which 

 will later in the season give you more blooms. On 

 the stronger varieties in the June blooming season, 

 on a Hybrid Tea rose or a rose which you expect 

 to bloom further, you should leave enough buds to 

 give shoots for summer and for autumn bloom. 

 Therefore in such cuttings we would suggest leaving 

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

 and with very strong varieties three buds, always 

 seeing that the bud you cut back to is a strong one. 

 If you cut leaving a long stem you may, perhaps, 

 get more flowers but they will not be on such stal- 

 wart stems, nor will they produce as fine blooms. 

 If you are cutting from a Hybrid Perpetual, or from 

 a rose from which you do not expect to secure more 

 bloom, to cut to one bud will be sufficient. In this 

 cutting of blooms, the same as in pruning, you can 

 follow the well-known theory that on a weak growth 

 you can cut farther back than on a strong growth. 

 Approximately on an average growth we would 

 leave, as above stated, two buds on the constantly- 

 blooming varieties. In late fall cutting it will be 

 unnecessary to leave any buds below the cut as 

 there will be no more bloom after frost. In the 

 weak kinds, with the frail, drooping stems, perhaps 

 you do not wish all of the stem cut to remain on 

 your bloom, but you certainly do not wish it to 



