46 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Jury, 1899. 
The colours you will mainly find amongst roses will be :—White, blush and’ 
flesh of various shades; yellow, pink, rose, light-crimson, dark-crimson, maroon 
and purple. We have said that Tea Roses do best here, and it may be that some 
readers would like to know the names of a few reliable Tea Scented roses of 
the above several shades of colour. Here they are :— 
White, blush and flesh, more or less shading into each other.—Augustine 
Guinnoisseau, Captain Christy, Enchantress, Innocente Pirola, Madame Alfred 
Carriére, Madame Plantier, Souvenir de Malmaison, Souvenir de President 
Carnot, White Lady. 
Yellow—Anna Ollivier, Boquet d’ Or, Celine Forestier, Madame Falcot, 
Marie van Houtte, Perle de Jardins, Persian Yellow, W. A. Richardson. 
Pink—The Bridesmaid, Catherine Mermet, La France, Maman Cochet, 
Pink Rover. 
Rose Colowr.—Camoens, Grand Duc A. de Luxembourg, Madame Lambard, 
Mrs. W. J. Grant. 
Light-crimson.—Crimson Rambler, Déschamps, Marquise de Salisbury,. 
Reine Olea de Wurtemburg, Waltham Climber No. 1. 
Dark-crimson.—Bardou Job, Francis Dubreuil, Princesse de Sagan, Waltham 
Climber No. 3. ; 
Maroon and Purple—TVhere are no Teas of these colours, but six good 
Hybrid Perpetuals are—Abel Carriere, Black Prince, Pierre Notting, Prince. 
Camille de Rohan, Reynolds Hole, Sultan of Zanzibar. 
You will note that Teas, Hybrid Teas, Bourbons, &c., are here classed’ 
together. 
Now as to pruning. Quite a mistake is sometimes made here by pruning: 
too early, and thus allowing the young shoots to get a good start during: 
comparatively mild weather, only to be cut off by a late westerly or two. It is 
better to prune when the westerlies have gone for good if this can be managed.. 
In most cases it will do less harm to cut off a few developed shoots, which may 
have started owing to somewhat late pruning, than to be in the position of the: 
man who pruned his roses hard back earlv in May, and has no reserve wood to» 
cut them back to after they have been through the recent severe westerly: 
winds. The vigour and shape of your rose will be a good guide to you in the: 
matter of pruning. Suppose you have to deal with a bush which has been, 
neglected or unskilfully pruned. Examine it carefully, and decide what old 
useless wood you can cut out. Get a small key-hole saw, and carefully remove 
the old wood, leaving the young, vigorous shoots. Smooth over the cuts with a 
sharp knife. Do not use a secateur in pruning roses. It is a lazy man’s 
implement, and bruises the wood. Having cut out the old and used-up wood,. 
prune out the weak wood, and then, according to the strength and habit of your: 
rose, cut back the other wood. There is no rule which will apply to this like. 
the solution of a mathematical problem, for, as has been said before, roses nearly: 
related require quite different treatment with the knife. You may often see roses. 
pruned justas if the knife-wielder felt like little George Washington, that, having: 
got an edged instrument in his hand, he must go out and cutsomething. Roses. 
should be pruned more or less all the year. You will note that a branch of one. 
of your strong-growing roses will produce a quantity of bloom and then cease to 
bear any more. Well, the sooner you get rid of that branch the better; for it 
will never bloom again. It will produce along its length a number of weak 
branches if you let it remain, and dies may produce some indifferent flowers ; 
but if you cut it back, you will get from the base a good strong shoot, 
which you can train on in place of the old one, although it may happen that 
you want to get a quantity of wood to form a covering for a wall or trellis ; 
then you will shorten back your strong old growths, and, when new ones start,. 
you will rub out those you do not want while they are still quite young. Asa 
eneral rule, weak roses require to be cut back closer than very vigorous ones. 
Tybrid Perpetuals should have the shoots which arise from the base first thinned. 
