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THE FLOEAL WOELD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 
ON THE EOEMATION OE BUSH EOSES, 
BY JI. TAN HULLS, 
Of tine Botanical Gardens, Ghent. 
NSTEAD of close- pruning rose trees every year, which 
reduces the number of blooms, we would recommend 
the adoption of a method which we ourselves have prac- 
tised during the past year on General Jacqueminot. 
; In place of heading down all the branches to two 
or three eyes, we leave one untouched in the centre (see the 
figure) and cut hack the rest as may he required. We thus get a 
profusion of blooms on the old wood, without interfering with the 
young hranchlets, which are to furnish the new growths for the year 
following. During the next and succeeding years, a like selection 
of branches for pruning will enable us to secure an unlimited suc- 
cession of new growths, as in peach trees, or long-trained vines. 
Since writing the above note, an experiment of the present year 
(1872) has turned out a complete success. We have counted one 
hundred and fifty blooms upon a single stock. In our opinion the 
question is decided. The frequenters of the Botanic Gardens at 
Ghent have for some time past found an attraction in the bushes 
thus dealt with, little imagining the mode of treatment adopted with 
them, which we now lose no time in making known. 
