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as are needed to cover the object on Which it is to 

 grow, and cut out all other main shoots back to the 

 root. All laterals on the shoots left should be cut 

 back to two or three eyes, not more. Cut out all the 

 coarse suckers that came from the roots of the bou- 

 gainvillea last year, for they will produce but few 

 flowers, and thin out the vine to suit yourself, though 

 the main stems should not be trimmed clean at the 

 bottom. These vines look best when well furnished 

 with foliage to the ground. No danger will result 

 from heavy pruning ; it is needed. 



PRUNE AND FEED ROSES 



Be careful not to trim spring and early summer 

 blooming climbers now or you will get few flowers. 

 These roses: Banksias, Beauty of Glazenwood, 

 Cherokees, Gold of Ophir, etc., should be given only 

 such pruning as is necessary to keep them within 

 proper bounds immediately after their annual crop 

 of flowers. After this period they bend all their en- 

 ergies toward making flower bearing wood for next 

 year. This in itself is enough to suggest the proper 

 pruning season. 



During this month roses push out their new 

 growths. New canes will break from the eyes both 

 above and below the surface of the soil. Assist this 

 growth in every manner possible. Give the beds a 

 good forking over, dress the surface with a liberal 

 coat of air slacked lime to sweeten it, following some 

 time later with a heavy mulch of any good fibrous 

 manure. Subsequent rains or waterings will leach 

 the plant food from this dressing and give a sur- 

 passing vigor to the new growths. In proportion as 

 you treat roses now will they repay you in bloom 

 production during April, May and June. 



