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Gardening for Amateurs 



A vigorous Rose pegged down 



An old Rose bush hard pruned to induce strong growth. 



PRUNING ROSES. 



Austrian Brier 

 Roses. Only the 

 dead and very old 

 shoots are cut out. 



Penzance Siaeet 

 Brier and Sweet 

 Brier Roses also 

 need little real 

 pruning. The Pen- 

 zance Briers are, 

 many of them, very 

 vigorous bushes, 

 and if the strongest 

 shoots are not tied 

 to posts, nails, or 

 trellis they ought 

 to be topped, dead 

 and weakly shoots 

 being cut out. The 

 ordinary Sweet 

 Brier does not 

 grow so strongly 

 as the Penzance 

 Brier, and needs 

 practically no 

 pruning unless the 

 bush appears to be 

 overweighted with 

 growth. Sweet 

 Briers make stur- 

 dier bushes if cut 

 back moderately 

 for two or three 

 years after being 

 planted. These in- 

 structions are not 

 meant to apply to 

 Briers grown as 

 hedges, which will 

 be dealt with later 

 on. 



When to Prune. 

 With regard to 

 the time when 

 pruning should be 

 done, only an aver- 

 age date can be 

 given for the south 

 and for the north. 

 Roughly speaking, 

 the further south 

 the earlier one can 



prune. 



