JV> deadwood from a rose bush. What are the little knobs that are 
JV> left after a flower dies? Is that a rose hip?
JV>  
JV> Whatever it is, should I leave it on the stem or take it off?
JV> What's it do? I guess it isn't a seed?
 
That lil sucker is what is left after the flower gits eatin by Japanese
beetles.  You can cut the thing off soz it won't take nutrients away 
from the rest of the plant.  As for trimming back long branches on a 
rose bush, you go to the leaf structure that has five leaves and cut 
about a 1/4" above the leaf at an angle.  Make it a clean cut.
 
    =Don=
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