448 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
Plantations of Roses should be made to succeed each 
other. In the second and third years after planting, the 
Rose will be in its greatest perfection. After the plants 
become old, they do not do so well; and I have found, in 
my own experience, that five years was long enough to 
continue a plantation. It is best then to prepare a new 
place, or, in fact, it should be prepared, and the new plan- 
tation made, a year before the old one is given up, as a 
general and perfect bloom cannot be expected the first 
year. 
It is becoming fashionable, at the present time, to plant 
out Roses in masses, which have a fine effect, where the 
white, the crimson, or other distinct colors, are planted 
by themselves. Many of the strong-growing sorts are 
suitable for planting with other shrubs in the shrubbery. 
Pruning. — Roses, in this climate, should be pruned 
early in the spring. For Roses that are grown as dwarfs, 
it is necessary to prune them down to a few buds; all the 
old wood, and the weak, last year’s growth, should be 
taken entirely away. The young wood generally produces 
the finest flowers, which, when properly pruned, are larger 
and much more double than when the bushes are suffered 
to grow at random. 
In pruning climbing Roses, the operation must be dif 
ferent, as it is necessary to retain the whole length of the 
most vigorous shoots, cutting out all the old wood that 
will not be likely to produce fine flowers, and pruning 
down the lateral branches to one eye. The manner of 
pruning must, in a measure, depend upon the variety of 
the Rose, and more particularly upon the style in which it 
is to be trained. This must be left to the ingenuity and 
taste of the cultivator; and whether it is to be trained to 
a trellis, over an arch, pillar, or in whatever shape it is 
wanted, the proper way will generally suggest itself. 
Propagation.—The Rose is propagated in various ways. 
