. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. flora and Live Oak for all the nice-ties of such art as exhibited in the plan repro-duced here. So far as the South is concerned, gardenersvrork with a view to the coming spring; but forthose gardens north of the Potomac, there isplenty yet to do. For them at least we mayoffer a few brief practical hints. Prune shrubs, roses and vines. Those whichflower from young wood, cut in severely to makenew growth vigorous. Tea, China, Bouibon andK o ise 11 e the winter, should be occasionally examined,and when they show signs of active growth,must be uncovere
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. flora and Live Oak for all the nice-ties of such art as exhibited in the plan repro-duced here. So far as the South is concerned, gardenersvrork with a view to the coming spring; but forthose gardens north of the Potomac, there isplenty yet to do. For them at least we mayoffer a few brief practical hints. Prune shrubs, roses and vines. Those whichflower from young wood, cut in severely to makenew growth vigorous. Tea, China, Bouibon andK o ise 11 e the winter, should be occasionally examined,and when they show signs of active growth,must be uncovered; in this latitude this is notsafe until towards the end of the month. Most things have been pruned, but Roses arealways left to see what damage the wmter maydo. In the summer roses, or those whichbloom only once in the season, the rule is to thinout the weak shoots and leave the strongerones, merely shortening their tops. If prunedseverely in the usual shortening style, they willnot bloom freely. The hybrid perpetual roses, if wan ted for. roses are ofthis acecalled an-nual flower-ing roses,as PrairieQueen andso on, re-quires lotsof last yearswood tomake a goodshow of flow-ers. Hence,with these,thin outweak wood,and leave all the stronger. i China, Bourbon and Noisette roses which flower Do not transplant extensively till the ground j best on young wood, should be well cut warm and the buds are about to push. Manythings die by exposure to winds for a few weeksbefore they have warmth to push roots andleaves into growth. The rule for pruning at transplanting is to cutin proportion to apparent injury to roots. If notmuch the worse for removal, cut but little of thetop away. Properly pruned, a good gardenerwill not have the worst case of a badly dug treeto die under his hands, GROUND PLAN OF AN EUROPEAN PARK SCENE. early flower-ing, shouldalso be serv-ed much inthe sam eway, but astheir chiefvalue is asfall flowers,a severepruning nowproduces avigorousfall growth
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