^ Your Rambler roses should be kept open and 

 free and they will be so, if after they flowered 

 and faded last year about one half of all the 

 flowering laterals were cut away. It should be 

 done this Summer before the last of the withered 

 petals have fallen. This serves as our pruning 

 guide. If we wait many laterals will escape even 

 our vigilant eye, for when the young seed heps 

 are green we can not find them so easily. Then 

 in the Spring the half laterals should be pruned 

 again, leaving but two inch stubs or spurs with 

 three eyes. No dead wood should be permitted 

 to remain, not an inch, and no crowding, because 

 if we prune away considerable of the older canes 

 and here and there we " thin out " by removing 

 the superfluous and weak ones, and those that 

 are sappy and unripe, our Ramblers and Pillars 

 will be in great splendor in their season. 

 ^ When in your rose garden carefully observe 

 the canes on the bushes and if you see any that 

 have a brownish patch forming a complete circle 

 around a shoot, then and there prune away that 



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