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the principal branches to be entirely cut out, and the remainder 
left without any shortening or cutting in ; this-will admit a circu¬ 
lation of air among them, and tend to promote a well-developed 
and rigid growth, and a consequent profusion of blossoms. 
When in growth, during the summer, they should not be cut in, 
excepting it may be that an occasional luxuriant shoot may re¬ 
quire reducing within limitable extent ; they will continue 
blooming and developing in succession for several months. They 
will not require for the most part any artificial support to their 
branches, as their habit will be sufficiently rigid to bear up their 
blossoms, and the graceful laxity in which they will be disposed 
will be infinitely preferable in point of taste to the appearance 
of a legion of stakes, with which by far the greater number of 
specimen plants are garrisoned in. 
With these, and those treated of under the next head, the one- 
shift practice may be successfully adopted. It is not desirable 
here to enter into a consideration of the merits or demerits of 
this practice, it will be sufficient for us to know that it has some 
advantage, provided proper subsequent treatment is afforded ; 
whilst, on the other hand, if this is neglected, and the plants are 
incautiously managed, it is possible that it may produce very 
unsatisfactory results. The plants included in 2 and 8, with 
some of the dwarfer kinds in §§ 9 and 10, I should recommend 
as being adapted for this mode of treatment or some modifi¬ 
cation of it. 
We come now to the treatment of the Banksian rose, which 
was chosen as being a type of a considerable number of its con¬ 
geners with respect to cultivation. The method of propagation 
already recommended for China roses I would strongly urge in 
this case also ; and what has been there stated with regard to 
their subsequent management, applies equally to these also. 
Instead, however, of training these into compact bushes, I would 
recommend them to be grown vigorously in the early part of- 
summer, and then, after being well matured, to be trained at 
full length around a cylindrical or pillar trellis. In order to 
carry out this principle to its fullest capability, two sets of plants 
should be cultivated and bloomed alternately, the one being 
pushed into rapid and vigorous development as early in the sea¬ 
son as possible, in order to mature the shoots before winter ; 
the other having been so treated in the preceding season, to be 
