OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



for medium fine blooms prune the strong varieties 

 on the strongest canes to five and six eyes; weaker 

 canes to a smaller number. On the weaker varie- 

 ties prune to three and four eyes on the strong canes; 

 two and three eyes on the weaker ones. If you wish 

 more blooms and do not care so much for quality, 

 desiring the bushes to be more of a garden decora- 

 tion, do not prune quite so far down the canes. If 

 you want only a few exhibition blooms, cut harder, 

 and, later in the season, thin out unnecessary and 

 unpromising growths. For all plants cut out dead 

 wood. In cutting roses during the spring and summer 

 never leave less than two eyes on any stem which 

 you cut. This gives you summer and autumn 

 blooms. On the very strongest varieties cut to 

 three eyes always cut to a strong eye. Be sure 

 that your cut is a clean one and slanting, and from 

 one-quarter to one-half an inch above the bud. 

 Always cut to outside buds, unless for some par- 

 ticular reason you wish to have the plant grow in 

 some other direction. 



In all pruning remember the working rule and so 

 accomplish your purpose; the fewer buds you leave 

 to break the more sap they will receive, and the 

 more buds you leave the smaller amount of sap 

 each one will get, and also that the buds near the 

 base may not break. 



