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weather. Prune the tender varieties in April, 

 completing the process — in an average season 

 — by the middle of the month. In sections 

 where the winters are longer, however, the 

 operation should be postponed until it is entirely 

 safe to remove the winter mulch. Cut out all 

 dead wood and weak shoots, the latter unspar- 

 ingly, but do not follow blindly the advice to 

 cut liberally where the wood is healthy, strong 

 and vigorous. Too severe pruning is often 

 as injurious as too little. If large blooms are 

 wanted, the pruning should be more severe 

 than where mass effects are desired. Cut the 

 canes off an inch above an outside bud. The 

 cane which follows will then grow outward and 

 not inward as it would do were an inside bud se- 

 lected and the cut made above it. This sugges- 

 tion will prove of value to those who have had 

 difficulty in training climbers successfully. 



The following varieties, made up from Doctor 

 Robert Huey's excellent list, will be found the 

 most satisfactory: 



HARDY PERPETUALS 



White Baroness, white Paul Neyron, pink 



Fran Karl Druschlii, white Caroline d'Arden, pink 



Slabel ilorrison, white Duke of Edinburgh, crimson 



Jlargaret Dickson, white Captain Hayward, crimson 



Baroness Rothschild, pink General Jacqueminot, crimson 



Her Majesty, pink Prince Arthur, crimson 



