Question
I live 26 miles west of Portland Oregon and have several roses to move. I read your answer about moving them in the spring. Do I prune them before I dig them up? After I replant them? or not at all in the year they are moved. One is a hybrid tea: the other an old garden rose. Should they be treated differently as to moving and pruning time?

Answer
Moving rose bushes in the spring is an ideal time in the PNW area. When you dig the roses up, the roots will be damaged and disturbed   (even though they have a soil root ball attached) so the reason you cut them back is because the roots won't do anything until they are settled in and that will take about 2 months. The old garden rose is more forgiving than the hybrid tea, so just  back by a third but the hybrid tea, prune back by a half. Also bear in mind that you are cutting off many of next years flowers with the old garden bush.  If this is done the day before and watered well, it gives the roots water to go on when moved. Because the roots go under stress when moved and will not take up any water, that is why you constantly water for at least a couple of months. It isn't the big long roots that do all the work, it is the little frail feeder roots that take up the nutrients plus water.
Both can be moved at the same time even now is fine but as you are moving the old garden rose and if it is has been in the ground for a few years, then now is a good time to give it a good pruning. Cut out to the base any older and grey canes as this will give room to new ones. These older roses really benefit from a hard pruning about every 6 years. I have many OGRs and every 6th or 7th year I take out my electric  saw and  cut them back by a third and also take out the very old canes which produce less blooms. Then the next spring I go back to simply snapping off the old, dead flowers right behind them as that is where the next bloom will come from.