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where protected by glass, I imagine a mere removal of dead 

 and weak wood, and of budless tips, would suffice for these 

 charming plants. But in many parts of the country, particularly 

 in low-lying districts, we often find, in spite of our best efforts at 

 protection, that the greater part of each plant has been killed or 

 severely injured during the winter ; and are only thankful, as I 

 have said, if we can find some real life to cut back to. 



For exhibition purposes, the pure Tea Eoses should in all 

 cases be pruned back as hard as the H.Ps. ; there is no fear of 

 these free flowering roses failing to bloom. But the now large 

 Gloire de Dijon race, Marechal Niel, and the Noisette hybrids 

 must be treated differently; the long strong shoots of the year 

 reserved to nearly their full length, and the old and weak wood 

 only cut out. 



Marechal Niel under Glass. 



I must pass over the pruning and training of pot roses and 

 roses for forcing, as subject to the same general rules ; but 

 Marechal Niel under glass seems to do best under the following 

 special treatment. In a house fitted with wires up the roof, let 

 a strong young standard be planted as a vine, with plenty of 

 room for extension on either side. Prune it completely back in 

 the winter, and select two shoots only, training them horizontally 

 right and left immediately under the bottoms of the wires. If 

 still growing when they reach the end of the house, or as far as 

 the rose is intended to cover, train each up the end wire, and, if 

 they reach the top, stop them as you would a vine. 



No pruning whatever will be required the following winter, 

 but the plant must be always highly fed. The rose will pro- 

 bably bloom freely along the rods in the spring, and, as soon as 

 this is over, the upright rods (if any) must be cut right back to 

 the horizontal part, and an endeavour made to train a shoot up 

 each wire, all other buds and new shoots being clean removed. 

 The chosen shoots may appear weak at first, but they will gain 

 in strength, and the autumn growth, if the plant be healthy and 

 well nourished, will be very rapid. Probably all the shoots will 

 not reach the top of the house this year ; but let them grow as 

 much as they will, stopping them when they do reach the top. 

 Early in the following spring — dependent, of course, upon the 

 amount of heat supplied — a bloom will appear at almost every 



