Pot Roses Pruning. 



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doors, they require rather closer pruning. Disbudding should be practised in pot 

 culture especially ; it is of great assistance in obtaining well formed plants, and such 

 we expect to see when grown in pots. 



But the second season has passed away, and we have entered upon the third. 

 Our plants are not equal to what they are capable of becoming ; but the accompany- 

 ing engraving (Fig. 37) may be considered a fair illustration of a three years old 



Fig. 38. POT ROSE, FIVE YEARS OLD, IN BLOOM. 



plant that has been carefully and skilfully cultivated for two seasons. Its growth is 

 too vigorous to be called perfect, for the flowers are in consequence nearly all on the 

 top of long shoots. This, however, is desirable at this stage of growth, and easily 

 remedied the next year by long pruning, and afterwards bending the branches down. 



Thus, we follow on year by year the same routine of culture repotting, pruning, 

 training our plants continually increasing in size till we reach the mark on which we 



