. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 14 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. short. This is the best way of pruning weakly- growing Roses. Notwithstanding what is advanced in this chapter, and in previous sections, on the impor- tance of breaking up and diffusing vital force into many rather than one channel, yet it is equally needful at times to concentrate force, for concentra- tion of vital energy is power. And it is found in practice that the easiest way to strengthen weakly- growing Roses is to short-prune them to a single or very few buds. The force that would otherwise have been diffused t
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 14 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. short. This is the best way of pruning weakly- growing Roses. Notwithstanding what is advanced in this chapter, and in previous sections, on the impor- tance of breaking up and diffusing vital force into many rather than one channel, yet it is equally needful at times to concentrate force, for concentra- tion of vital energy is power. And it is found in practice that the easiest way to strengthen weakly- growing Roses is to short-prune them to a single or very few buds. The force that would otherwise have been diffused through six or a dozen buds and shoots, is thus concentrated into one, two, or three as the case may be. See the illustrations of long. Fig. 33.—Long Pruning. and short pruning, and their results, wliich make all this plain. But of course there are endless gradations be- tween these two extremes, and only practice among the Roses themselves will teach the whole art of prmnng. And not orAj the quantity of bloom, but its quality, is largely dependent on the mode of pruning adopted, and the extent to which it is carried. Prune too little, you may have many blooms of inferior character; prune too much, you may have a few fine ones or none at all. Those, however, who prune for the highest quality of flowers only or chiefly, must prune harder—that is, cut closer—than those who prune for size or form of plant, as well as quality-. Time to Prune Roses.—Those culti- vators who grow quantities alike out of doors and under glass, prune every month in the year, per- petual pruning being in fact the surest receipt for continuous blooming. But—leaving the pruning of Roses under glass to another occasion—there are thi^ee general seasons for the pruning of out-of-door Roses, with various times for disbudding, pinching, and root-pruning abreast of or between these prun- ing times. These are autumn or winter, spring, and summer. The Autumnal Pruning of Roses.—The two months of
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