Show In Your Own S o. o t 7 j 5 1 z An amateur gardener ardener once asked my advice about her climbing roses rose I which she said never bloomed On I in e investigation the fact came carne out that her husband cut the climbers back to within a few tew inches of ot the ground every ery spring spring- just as asne asie he did the Los Angeles and Madame Butterfly and andall andall andall all his other hybrid tea roses Of at course they had no flowers because the climbing roses bloom on wood which Is two years old and their 1 woo wood was never allowed to get more I than one year old The climbing roses however need some pruning but not such drastic treatment as the aforementioned aforementioned aforementioned gardner gave ave them In or order order order or- or der to know how how to prune you should be familiar with the various sorts of or climbers I Latel Lately we have had many climb- climb lug Jug h hybrid brid tea roses put on the market market mar r ket These roses are similar to the I bush hybrid teas tee such as Madame I Edouard Heriot or William Villiam F. F Dreer save that they have been crossed with a to give them the climbing habit They have large flowers borne singly on stems of or good length and reach a L hel height ht of oC about six feet teet or so In our climate they are very often winter killed to some extent at the top The climbing hybrid teas require very little pruning since the finest blooms are borne on side twigs springing from older canes When you rou have had the rose several years one or two of the very oldest canes may be removed to make male way for I new ones but always be timid in pruning this class of or climber I Other climbing roses such as Silver Sil Sit ver vcr Moon Dr Van Fleet and the large flowered ones which have become be he- I he-I come so gO popular of oC late years ear and which make far tar more rampant growth than the climbing h hybrid brid teAs tens need ted only be he pruned enough to take any wood which may have been killed In a severe winter or to keep them within hounds bounds It is the small flowered climbers those with their blossoms In clusters clusters clus clus- tern which require real pruning In Inthis Inthis Inthis this class We ae have Dorothy Perkins and the Crimson Rambler to name two of the most commonly grown In the spring remove all dead canes then wait waft until the flowers of ot June appear and fade and prepare to do your stern duty b by them As soon as their flowering season has ha passed resolutely cut away at atthe atthe atthe the ground all those canes which have borne blooms It takes tales a great Krest deal of ot strength of or mind to do It ft and your our climbing roses will look poor naked things after you OU have operated on them but it must be done if it you would have good flower flowers flow flow- er ers er next year ear When rhen you ou have ve finished you oti 1 should have nothing left hut those I canes which have grown this y year ar and it is on these same glime branches that the finest blooms will be J given Jen en II nE next t year ear Repeat this pruning rummer after summer with the rambler ram ram- bier bler roses as many people prefer to call the small flowered climbers and you will always have good new wood will be two years old when blooming season arrives QUERIES J J. J P. P T. T Salt Lake City writes Please name the plants for me They are all house plants Ans No 1 is a coleus No 2 begonia begonia begonia be be- gonia and No 3 or leopards leopard's leopards leopard's leopards leopard's leop leop- ards ard's plant |