20 OF PRUNING, ETC. [Feb. 
Climbing shrubs, and others that are trained against out- 
buildings, walls, or such as are sheltered thereby, and not 
now in danger of suffering by frost, may be pruned and 
dressed. These should be neatly trimmed, and the branches 
moderately thinned out, tying in all the shoots straight and 
regular". Avoid, at all times, the crossing of any shoots. 
There is not a shrub in the garden that agrees so well 
with close cutting as the AWtea, and all its varieties. These 
can be made either bushes or trees, and kept at any desired 
height. Where the wood of last year is cut to about two or 
three inches from the wood of the former year, the young 
shoots of the coming season will produce the largest and 
finest flowers, and likewise more profusely. When they have 
attained the desired height, let them be kept in the most 
natural and handsome shape that the taste of the operator 
can suggest. They will bear cutting to any degree. 
Honeysuckles, of every description, may, with all free- 
dom, be trimmed, providing the frost is not very severe. 
These are very frecpiently allowed to become too crowded 
with wood, and then superficially sheared or cut. The flowers 
would be much finer, and the bush handsomer, if they 
were regularly thinned out, divesting them of all naked and 
superfluous shoots. Of those that remain, shorten the shoots 
of last year. Where any of the honeysuckle kind has be- 
come naked at the bottom, and flowering only at the top of 
the trellis, or extremities of the shoots, one-half of the bush 
should be cut to within four inches of the ground. It will 
throw out plenty of fine, young wood, which give room for, 
and train them straight, and to the full extent, during sum- 
mer. These shoots will flower profusely the following sea- 
son, and in like manner, when thought proper, the other 
half can be cut. 
Roses of the hardy kinds (termed garden roses) that were 
not attended to in November, should, if the weather permit, 
be dressed and pruned forthwith. In small gardens, where 
these are generally attached to the walls and fences, neatness 
should be a very particular object. If any of such bushes 
have got strong and irregular, the most proper method to 
bring them to order will be to cut down each alternate shoot 
of the bush to within a few inches of the surface, thereby 
renovating it, and, in part, preserving the flowers. Those 
that are cut down will put out several luxuriant shoots, 
