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The term "climber" ;ii)])liecl to roses used for the adornment 

 of pergolas, arches, etc., is in jnirl a misnomer. Some roses, if 

 i^iven a suitable supi:)ort, can climb unaided l)y means of lon^ 

 straight shoots armed with recurved prickles which catch on 

 the sui)port and prevent the shoot from fallinii. Many, how- 

 e\'er, of the so-called climbinti- roses are trailers, scramblers, or 

 bush roses with thin i:)lial)le canes which makes them adaptable 

 for trainin.u' on trellis, pernola, or pillar. They exhibit threat 

 variety in their habit of .growth and size and form of flowers. 

 Some such as Dr. \'an Meet, Silver Moon, and Mary \\'allace 

 ha\-e tremendous vigor. The last named, even in the unfavor- 

 able environment of Brooklyn, has made shoots eiohteen feet 

 lon.u in one season of t^rowth. Some such as Birdie Blye, (dimb- 

 ino Orleans, and most of the climbini; Hybrid Teas are of mod- 

 erate .growth suilal)le for training on ix)sts not over six feet high. 

 Their flowers may be single or double; produced singly or few 

 in a cluster, in which case the fiowiM's are usually large as in 

 Breeze Hill, Dr. \'an Meet, and Madame (iregoire Staechelin; 

 or, they may be in many Howered clusters, when the individual 

 flowers are usually small as in Bloomlield (\)urage, Dorothy 

 Perkins, and Kxcelsa. 



Kose hybridists have for some time been working towards the 

 ideal of hardy everblooming climbers. The climbing H. T.'s have 

 (he recurrent blooming habit to a certain extent, but the},- are 

 by no means so constandy in bloom as their bush counterparts, 

 (dimbing mutations of Dwarf Polyanthas, such as (d. Orleans 

 and td. Cdothilde Souperl, are cluster-llowering tvpes of more 

 or less "e\-erblo()ming" habit. The originations of rai)tain 

 Thomas, such as Oascadia and Bloomfield Decoration from 

 crosses of hybrid musk X Hybrid Tea, and hybrid Wichuraiana 

 X Lambertiana roses are worthy of miMition in an\' discussion of 

 rost\s of long blooming habit. New Dawn, the hrst plant to be 

 patented in the I'nited States, has "everblooming" (lualities. 

 This rose is a mutation o' the i)o]uilar Dr. W. Van Ideet. Blaze, 

 which has been described as an everblooming I^aul's Scarlet 

 Climber (Paul's Scarlet X Oruss an d\-plitz?) is another rose of 

 much promise but erratic performance. 



Ro.ses are as temperamental as ]X)tato(\s in their reaction to 



