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DAVID C. FROST (Est. 1884), 224 W. Short Street, Lexington, Ky. 



Pruning Roses 



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H. P. rose, before pruning 

 (Gen. Jacqueminot) 



13 OSES are a good illustration of the 

 A» wisdom of sacrificing the present for 

 the sake of the future. From the day they 

 are set out in your 

 rose bed, until they 

 are taken up and 

 reset, four or five 

 years later, prun- 

 ( ing forms an im- 

 t«4 portant part of 

 their history. 



Unless they are 

 pot-grown plants 

 you will have to 

 prune them when 

 they are set out. 

 Cut them back 

 one-quartertoone- 

 half, according 

 to the strength of 

 the roots and re- 

 move all feeble 

 growth . Use a 

 sharp pruning 

 knife; it does not 

 bruise the stem as 

 the shears do. 

 The best place to cut is just above a bud 

 on the outer side of a cane. 



The common roses that everybody grows 

 in the North are mostly hybrid perpetuals, 

 which are supposed to give scattering bloom 

 all summer besides the main crop of flowers 

 in June. Be- 

 fore they show 

 any life in the 

 spring, cut off 

 from two- 

 thirds to four- 

 fifths of last 

 year's wood 

 and any weak- 

 looking shoots. 

 The result 

 will be strong 

 plants and large flowers. 'When this is done 

 no summer or fall pruning follows. For a 

 quantity of flowers, at the expense of size, 

 cut back only one-half, and in the summer 

 unless all the flowers have been gathered, 

 remove the shoots which have bloomed. All 

 sprouts on the stock and weak shoots must 

 also be removed and any used up stems, as 

 the plants become old. 



Hybrid teas should be placed where they 

 can have protection in the winter. They, 

 too, can stand severe pruning, as described 

 for perpetuals. 



Climbing roses, like the Crimson Rambler, 



A 



128. Same as Fig. 127, afterpruning 



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