OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



this August pruning it will hardly be necessary in the 

 following spring to do more than cut out the dead 

 wood and keep the plant within the prescribed 

 bounds, which may be determined by the arbor or 

 trellis on which it is grown. The new canes springing 

 from the base which have grown during the previous 

 season should remain untouched, excepting that the 

 ends or tops of the longest should be somewhat short- 

 ened. The same process used in pruning recently 

 planted Hybrid Teas applies in the case of newly- 

 planted climbers, and especially weaker-growing 

 varieties planted the previous autumn, viz., pruning 

 back ''wickedly" in the spring to a few eyes. This 

 gives the roots less work to do and insures good 

 growth for the following year. It gives no chance 

 for flowers during the first summer, but at best the 

 blooms on a newly-planted climber would be poor; 

 the great point is that such cutting back gives the 

 plant a better chance to become established and se- 

 cures good flowering wood the second year and there- 

 after. But, if you insist upon trying for some flowers 

 the first summer on newly-planted stock, be sure 

 that such climbers as you do not cut back have well- 

 established root systems with fibrous feeding roots 

 and that they were planted the previous autumn, 

 their root systems having been noted at that time. 

 Under no circumstances should the canes remain 



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