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favorite Jacqueminot. The Meteor is a desirable rose, but 

 requires a warm, sunshiny location to get the best buds out. 

 Etoile de Lyon is a good yellow tea rose that with proper 

 care will bloom the year around. Isabella Sprunt is bril- 

 liant yellow, and a constant bloomer. And — our list of 

 a dozen good varieties is complete — try Helen Gould for 

 a steady bloomer with fine foliage. It is not unlike the 

 Madam C. Testout, and will mix well with buds from that 

 sort. 



As for the time of planting, one may plant roses almost 

 any month of the year, if well-rooted plants are secured; but 

 the ideal season is, in the ordinary year, February and 

 March, while in some seasons April has been perfect, and 

 the first week or two of May possible. 



It should be remembered by all rose growers that a sea- 

 son of rest is imperative for roses as for all shrubs, and yet, 

 after the blooming period is over, the hot weather and dry- 

 ing-out process may very easily become the dying-out process 

 unless the plant is carefully watched. 



The pruning of the rose bushes is not a process of as 

 much seriousness as we are often led to believe. The prin- 

 cipal art consists in cutting out from the heart or center of 

 the bush the stubby, short-jointed growths and the wiry, 

 half-grown branches. A "shortening in" or clipping of the 

 robust shoots is desirable, of course, only to keep the shrub 

 within bounds. There is much more of art and skill re- 

 quired in properly pruning a climber than in caring for the 

 shrub, or bush rose. 



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