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at the age when it should, in your gardens, be at the height of its 
glory. 
When pruning your Hybrid-Teas, first of all, be sure your prun¬ 
ing shears are sharp. A great deal of harm can be done by hacking 
a Rose with dull shears. The next step is to walk around your bush 
and take a good look at it before you decide what particular type 
its cut should be. A "boyish” or "wind-blown” effect is not always 
becoming to a large and well-developed Red Radiance , which 
leads us to suggest a rule of "proportion” in our pruning of all but 
newly set-out bushes, which latter should be cut back to within 
six inches of the ground. 
The best proportion to use on well-established plants is one- 
half. That is, cut back one-half the new strong growth of a 
bush Rose, leaving a four-foot plant two feet high and a three- 
foot plant eighteen inches. All the old, diseased or weak wood 
should be cut away entirely. Try to create a well-balanced and 
symmetrical appearance. 
And finally, remember, if you want Hybrid Teas in your gar¬ 
den that will "say it with flowers”, the Radiance sisters all talk out 
loud. 
Adapt 
Contour to 
Root System 
Proportion 
PERNETIAN AS 
The Pernetianas are the newest of the bush creations for our 
gardens. And they demand to be treated like the spoiled youngest p ernet 
of any large family. Monsieur Pernet might be considered in the Varieties 
light of a modern Pandora, for when he crossed the Austrian Brier 
with a Hybrid-Perpetual and produced the Pernetiana race, he 
loosed upon the Rose world a host of hitherto unimagined evils. 
