. Australian Garden and Field. 202 THE uanecessarv and undesirable shoots as thcv api>â¬ar. If ,1 want a crop of autumn llowers, I cut mv plants back after their first bloom is over. This, however, is seldom. I prefer them to make new wood for the next year, for it is on the new \\x)od (that of the previous year's growth) that we get our finest llowers. â Pruning. â In the autumn, under favorable conditions, we have in any case some roses, and what 1 think more important, a good growth of new wood. These new shoots I pinch or cut back a few inches from the tip, and this causes the lower bud
. Australian Garden and Field. 202 THE uanecessarv and undesirable shoots as thcv api>â¬ar. If ,1 want a crop of autumn llowers, I cut mv plants back after their first bloom is over. This, however, is seldom. I prefer them to make new wood for the next year, for it is on the new \\x)od (that of the previous year's growth) that we get our finest llowers. â Pruning. â In the autumn, under favorable conditions, we have in any case some roses, and what 1 think more important, a good growth of new wood. These new shoots I pinch or cut back a few inches from the tip, and this causes the lower buds to ripen. Towards the end of autumn I spade the beds lightly, and muich "well with good manure. Then in winter I give the plants a systematic and thorctigh pruning. Now, in pruning, there are two principles. Brielly stated, they are as follows :â For size and quality, prtme closelyâthat is, leave only three to seven eyes, according to the habit of growth, upon the strong shoots and laterals, cutting out al- together all weakly, infirm, and old wood, leaving only the strong and thrifty ripened shoots of the previous season's growth. For quantity, follow the same course as to weakly and old wood, but cut to eight or twelve or more e3'es. The above are general rules, which must, how- ever, l>e and supplemented hy the following :â Roses of weak growth 'require more severe pruning than those that are,vigorous and thrifty. The latter m'Ust have the shoots left longetr, but must be well thinned out. As one gets to know their roses and their habits of growth, the treatment each requires soon becomes ai)parent. In pri'.ining, 1 make the cut clean and as nearly horizontal as possible, and always cut to an outside eve, so that the shoot that grows from the eye cut will grow outwards. And, fur- ther, I always bear in irrind and keep in view the shape and sym- metry of the plant as it will be, for that is formed in pruning. .\fter i)nming I usually spray the bushe
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