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The Rose Garden. 



which the tree before us serves well to explain. The shoot marked d had been pro- 

 duced late in the year, and, to use the technical phrase, was not well ripened was 

 little more than pith and bark. Such was not fitted to produce either shoots or 

 flowers in good condition, and therefore it was cut in closely at the lower. letter c. 

 The best shoots having in this instance arisen from the base of the head, we do this 

 to decided advantage. We follow on this system through subsequent seasons, con- 

 tinuing to thin and shorten the shoots, the tree, if properly managed, increasing in 

 size for several years. 



Fig. 1 6 is a fair illustration of a full-grown tree to which long pruning has been 

 applied. 



Fig. 17. CLOSE PRUNING, Stage i. 



Fig. 18. CLOSE PRUNING, Stage 2. 



2. CLOSE PRUNING. We have been speaking of pruning hitherto in its applica- 

 tion to the most vigorous growing Roses ; let us now turn to another class, and con- 

 sider pruning as applied to the small kinds. Such are the small and moderate- 

 growing Hybrid Perpetual, Chinese, Tea-scented, French, Bourbon, &c., which make 

 compact and neat but rather formal heads. 



Fig. 17 represents a young plant of this description. Here we have a crowded 

 head the first year ; the shoots generally are of less length than in our former 

 specimen, but more numerous. We proceed to thin as before, but sometimes less 

 severely. The shoots may stand closer to each other here, because those they give 

 birth to will be less robust and produce smaller foliage. The shoots shown by the 



