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and flowers as the season prompts. They may be expedited by 
protection against the depressing effects of cold ; and they may be 
checked by art in a way which remains to be discussed. 
If a plant be checked in its first career of growth, especially in 
developing its reproductive members, it immediately concentrates 
its vital powers, and makes a second attempt, and, if the sum¬ 
mer allows, even a third to complete the final effort of its 
growth. Consequently, if the season of florescence is wished 
to be prolonged, we have only to destroy the first buds or shoots, 
and of course a second set will be produced, and flower a month 
or two later than the usual period. Suppose we wish to have a 
second or a continuous bloom of roses:—certain healthy plants 
should be fixed on ; they, at the winter pruning, along with the 
general collection, should be pruned, but somewhat differently ; 
instead of being spurred-in closely, which is the usual practice, 
the shoots of the selected trees should be left somewhat longer : 
and on these the uppermost bud will be first unfolded, and will 
shoot out with a flower or two on its apex; but this flowering must 
be prevented, for as soon as the young shoot from the uppermost 
bud is one inch in length, the old shoot must be again pruned 
down to the next bud below; which will be evolved in its turn, 
and produce what may be called a second crop of roses. 
A similar result is produced in another way; that is, by re¬ 
moving the trees rather late at the beginning of the growing 
season, which retards the bloom for a week or a month, according 
to the length of time the tree is allowed to re-establish itself. 
To this may be added the practice of layering and stopping the 
strongest shoots during the summer, which will often bring a late 
bloom in the autumn. And, besides all these expedients, a selec¬ 
tion of the early, late, and ever-flowering sorts, will produce a 
bloom of roses throughout the summer and autumn. 
But it is not the rose only which may be made to flower out 
of season. The rose-acacia, one of our most beautiful shrubs both 
in flower and foliage, may be made to bloom twice in the season 
by pruning. As soon as the first flowers fade, let the shoot that 
bore them be cut back to within an inch or two of its base; thence 
young shoots will be produced, bearing a second show of flowers 
in October sooner or later. 
The Laburnum, and indeed all the cytisus tribe, may be made 
to flower twice, by pruning back their young shoots which have 
