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with plenty of room for extension on either side. 

 The roots may be inside or out, but in either case 

 ample provision must be made for the supply of 

 abundance of rich food. The Eose should be 

 completely cut back at the time of planting to 

 within an inch or two of the stock. When it 

 begins to grow, two shoots only should be selected, 

 all others being rubbed off, and these should be 

 trained horizontally right and left immediately under 

 the bottoms of the wires. If still growing when 

 they reach the end of the house or as far as it is 

 intended to cover, train each up the end wires, and 

 should they reach the top, twist them about any- 

 where where room can be found but do not break or 

 stop them. No pruning whatever will be necessary 

 during the following winter, but the plant must 

 always be highly fed. The Eose will probably 

 bloom freely along the rods in the next spring, and 

 as soon as the blooms are over, the upright rods (if 

 any) must be cut quite back to the horizontal part, 

 from which all shoots must be clean removed. 



"We have now left, probably about April, a plant 

 shaped like a T, a stem with two simple horizontal 

 arms, and this will be the whole of the permanent 

 part of the Eose. The horizontal arms will soon 

 begin to break in several places, and shoots must be 

 trained under the wires about fourteen inches apart, 

 all other buds and new shoots being rubbed off. 

 The chosen shoots may appear weak at first, but 

 they will gain in strength, and the autumn growth, 

 if the plant be well nourished, will be very rapid. 

 Probably all the shoots will not reach the top of the 

 house this year, but they should be allowed to grow 

 as far as they will, and to ramble anywhere where 



