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should be placed somewhere near the front among the 

 moderately vigorous plants. Pruning must be severe 

 in the March following planting, each shoot being cut 

 to within three or four buds of the base. Then the 

 production of strong stems is assured. 



By proper treatment, it is easy to encourage these 

 vigorous roses to develop into really remarkable speci- 

 mens ; this is accomphshed by pegging down the growths 

 in March instead of cutting them back, as in orthodox 

 pruning. Any shoot that is not less than half an inch 

 thick may be pegged down. The pegging down is accom- 

 plished by attaching one end of a piece of strong string 

 to the top of the shoot, bending the latter down until it 

 reaches almost or quite to the ground, and there securing 

 it to a peg or wire pin. By adopting this plan the 

 harvest of blossom is increased to a remarkable 

 extent, practically every bud the full length of the 

 shoot will produce blossom. It is a plan strongly to 

 be recommended to those who grow for garden 

 display. 



These vigorous roses are admirably suited for plant- 

 ing in a border at the foot of a fence, preferably facing 

 south or west, although one facing east will do. If, 

 when the growths are strong enough and long enough, 

 they are bent over, in semi-circular fashion, and 

 attached, some to pegs in the ground, others to nails in 

 the fence, both border and fence are smothered in leaf and 

 blossom. I have a few plants of the variety Hugh Dick- 

 son that, in the course of two or three years, have grown 

 into magnificent bushes, with strong growths eight feet 



