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GARDENING IN THE SOUTHWEST 
Yellow 
White 
Pruning 
Beware of 
"Forcing” 
shapely Nasturtium-colored buds so captivate the public at flower 
shows. 
The yellow Hybrid-Teas are well represented by such splendid 
acquisitions as Mrs . Pierre S. DuPont , Joanna Hill and the Aus¬ 
tralian Golden Dawn . But yellow in Roses seems to belong more 
exclusively to another race, the Pernetianas. 
In the white Hybrid-Teas the old Kaiserina Augusta Victoria 
and White Killarny are still planted, together with the newer 
Abol, Edel and Nuntius Pacelli . Portadown Ivory is a lovely 
thing, but white Roses hold less interest for the average Rose-lover 
than the gayer-colored varieties. 
CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS 
The Southwest is the half-way meeting ground for the East and 
the far West in more ways than one. It is influenced by both 
and yet totally unlike either. It has the long growing-season and 
tropical summer of California, but its winters can remind one 
more often of New England. This makes all rules of either section 
not safe to apply here culturally. But the Southwest has a greater 
leaning toward California than it has toward Pennsylvania, when 
it comes to a matter of plant-growth. Our Rose-plants will more 
closely resemble those of California in size than those of the North. 
When we consider this it must have its direct bearing on the 
pruning of our Hybrid-Teas. Nature demands a balance. This 
greater top-growth which we may expect in the Southwest has its 
correspondingly greater root-growth and by unduly limiting the 
former, we necessarily in time will limit the latter. 
When you are told that you can prune, either to have a fine 
bush or fine flowers, you have heard only half of it. The end of 
that sentence is—if you don’t have a fine bush you won’t have 
any flowers very long. The extremely-low pruning theory comes 
to us from the florists who prune their bushes sharply and feed 
heavily to produce fine blooms. But they usually neglect to say 
what they do with those bushes at the end of one year, two years, 
or at the most, three years. They throw them out. This whole proc¬ 
ess is known as "forcing” and the result is an exhausted bush 
