I have the 2002 edition of "Growing Roses in the San Francisco Bay Area" that is what I think you are talking about. The best rose book ever for local conditions - roses in fog, shade, etc!

It was the first resource I found, after a long search, that even admitted that there was such a thing as rose curculios!

Anyway, I have scanned what it has to say about candelabras - see below.

Jackie

Thanks, Jackie! I hadn't noticed this pattern occurring until this thread popped up, but it makes sense to gradually encourage the main cane to put out basals rather than cut off the whole top-heavy thing at once. I'll have to try that this year!

Cynthia

One thing I do with them, especially when they are on small cluster flowered roses like hybrid musks, is cut the entire thing off and use it as a ready-made flower arrangement in a vase. If you have two that is even better!

Jackie