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INSTRUCTION 3. 



HYBRID PBRPBTUALS, HYBRID TEAS, AND 

 TEAS AND NOISETTES. 



Varieties ivhich require hard pruning. 



For time of pruning see page 88. 



For Exhibition Purposes. — Roses which are weak 

 growers require to be cut hard back at the time of 

 pruning, by which it is intended to convey that all 

 the dead, weak and unripe shoots must be cut clean 

 away to the base whence they started, and the centre 

 of the plant thinned out sufficiently to allow room for 

 the new growth which is to come after pruning. This 

 done only the stronger and well-ripened shoots of the 

 previous year's growth will be left, and these should be 

 cut back to within three or four, or less, " eyes " from 

 the base whence the shoot started. It may be necessary, 

 probably about the third week in May, as soon as the 

 flower buds can be seen, to remove with the fingers (or 

 carefully with a knife) some of the surplus shoots, 

 especially those which are blind (that is without flower 

 buds at the termination of the shoot), leaving only 

 those which are most promising and well placed. 



