DISBUDDING 



^ I fancy you will have to restrain yourself, just 

 as I find I must, so as not to do too much dis- 

 budding, through desire for finer and bigger 

 blooms. Nor must we forget that it also means 

 fewer blooms. Select certain bushes in the various 

 beds for disbudding, bearing in mind never to 

 disbud such bush roses as Gruss an Aachen, 

 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Gruss an Teplitz or 

 any of our climbers. I consider it cruel to disbud 

 such roses as Marie Pavie, Mme. Cecile Brunner, 

 Gruss an Aachen, George Elgar, etc. The great 

 charm of these varieties lies in the fact that they are 

 so tiny, such lovable dwarfs, and that is just 

 what the hybridists have striven for in producing 

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^ Perhaps there may be some amateurs who are 

 not quite certain regarding disbudding. You 

 have noticed the buds form in groups, the largest 

 one being in the center. All that is necessary when 

 you wish to disbud is to pinch off all of the other 



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