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Richardson. I can plainly remember the glowing orange flowers 

 of the last named growing on the walls of our home in England 

 when I was ([uite a small boy. 



Prairie Roses 



Rosa setigera. The part that this native species has played 

 in the production of climbing roses has been noted under Rose 

 species. It may be worth mentioning that it is reputed to be 

 one of the parents of that sterling variety, American Pillar, and 

 is also represented in certain hybrids made by M. H. Horvath, 

 an Ohio hybridist, among which the yellow climber Doubloons 

 is prominent. 



Tea Climbers 



Tea climbers are less hardy than those in the H. T. group. 

 The only climbing Tea rose in this garden is Gloire de Dijon 

 (introduced to commerce in 1835) but its performance here is 

 not such as to warrant recommendation for general planting as 

 far north as Brooklyn. 



Wichuraiana Roses 



Rosa Wichuraiana. The Memorial Rose has entered largely 

 into the make-up of our modern climbers. The influence of this 

 glossy-leaved species is plainly to be seen in such well-known 

 varieties as Dorothy Perkins and Excelsa. Wichuraiana hybrids 

 are largely the work of American hybridists. The (irst hybrids 

 were produced at Newjiort, Rhode Island, by M. H. Horvath, 

 probably about 1893. His work was followed uji by W. A. 

 Manda, M. H. Walsh, Captain Thomas, and others in this coun- 

 try and by Barbier cS: Co., F. Cant & Co., William Paul & Son, 

 and others in Europe. By far the largest proportion of the 

 climbing roses of today have Wichuraiana "blood" in them. 



The ancestry of many of the modern climbing roses is inex- 

 tricably mixed. Hybrid Perpetuals, Teas, Hybrid Teas, and 

 Pernetianas, themselves of mi.xed ancestry, have been hybridized 

 with moschata, muUiflora, and Wichuraiana species and garden 

 varieties in all sorts of combinations, so that it becomes increas- 

 ingly difficult to say definitely to which group many of the newer 

 roses really belong. 



