anything but a very sharp instrument, never with 

 a dull knife, or what is worse, a pair of scissors. 

 Where a rather thick stem is cut away, soothe 

 the cut that remains by rubbing a little soil on 

 it. When cutting roses from your standards or 

 tree bushes (such as Conrad F. Meyer), bear in 

 mind their desired form, and cut so as to maintain 

 a globular or rounded form. 

 ^ If you want to have roses to cut you must 

 keep cutting them, this of course applies specially 

 to the hybrid-teas and teas. Do not think that 

 because I say you should cut your roses freely, 

 that I ask you to strip your garden of all its 

 blooms. You may cut all from every other bush, 

 which of course will leave their neighbor in full 

 bloom and your garden always in flower. Yes, it 

 may be that some blooms will blow away before 

 their cutting time, but suppose they do, you will 

 not only have plenty of flowers in the garden, 

 but also countless cut ones. And let there be 

 no faded roses anywhere. Cut the withered ones 

 at the same time you are cutting the perfect. 



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