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it may be well to shade for a few days. After this not much water is re¬ 
quired, unless the weather is unusually dry. 
Pruning. Old and decayed branches and at least half the previous 
season’s wood should be cut away early each spring, and a little cutting- 
back after the first blooming will insure more late flowers. Climbing and 
Pillar Roses should not be cut back; but the tips of the shoots only should 
be taken off, and any weak or unripe shoots cut out altogether. 
FALL AND WINTER TREATMENT 
In the fall the Rose-beds should have a good dressing of stable manure 
or other fertilizer. The winter rains will carry the strength to the roots, 
and the remaining matter makes a nice mulch, which in many places is all 
the protection necessary. Where the winters are not very severe, tender 
Roses may be covered with clean rye-straw, leaves, or evergreen branches, 
not too thickly, but so as to permit considerable circulation of air and not 
to retain water; nothing should be used that will ferment, heat, or rot. 
The object of covering is to break the force of sudden and violent changes, 
particularly in March, when the plants 
should be protected from the sun, 
rather than from cold, the sudden 
thawing of the frozen wood doing the 
damage. 
BOOKS ON ROSE CULTURE 
For those who wish to go more 
thoroughly into the fine points of Rose¬ 
growing we recommend the Manual of 
the American Rose Society, which is 
supplied with a year’s membership for 
$1. For a more elaborate work we 
suggest the “Practical Book of Outdoor 
Rose-Growing,’’ by George C. Thomas, 
Jr., the price of which is $4. We shall 
be very glad to supply either of these 
books at the above figures. 
Briar R 
oses 
Many positions in the Rose border 
require large-growing Roses and the 
Briars fill the need perfectly, as they 
require plenty of room and but little 
attention; and indeed the shrubbery 
borders cannot be overlooked when 
placing Briar Roses, for their mid¬ 
summer bloom brightens the shrubbery 
Scotch Briar (Rosa spinosissima) 
see page 142 
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