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Show TO MAKE THE RAMBLER FLOWER. . The Rambler roses need no pruning in the oidinary sense. When the plant has become matted with the old canes and the wood so hardened tint it is even difficult to make an impression impres-sion on it with a knife, vigorous cutting cut-ting out is essential to flowers. A healthy plant will send up from its base strong, healthy canes if those that have flowcrctf arc cut out immediately imme-diately the flowers arc past. These young shoots will flower in abundance abund-ance next year. Rambler roses am be used in many other ways than tacked to the side of a building. They arc particularly effective ef-fective trained upon posts. I liave seen them pegged down to the ground and otlv ramblers trained on frames, the whole when in flower giving the appearance of a cascade of rosea L. J. DOOGUE. |