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to flower in June, it will continue to produce its 
gorgeous blossoms until the time of frost. It 
can be counted upon to attain a height of fifteen 
feet. 
For pale-pink, large-sized flowers, take climbing 
La France, in every way like the popular dwarf 
variety of the same name, except in its habit 
of growth, and in that (as is the case with all 
climbing forms of dwarf roses) it flowers a week 
or ten days later. As a good, free-flowering, 
yellow rose, climbing Perle des Jardins is my 
favourite, although there are plenty of other 
roses which will give richer colour, as, for in- 
stance, Réve d’Or and Cloth of Gold, typical 
old-fashioned roses. 
In the South, the two banksia roses may be 
grown out-doors, but in the North they generally 
are available only in greenhouses. ‘They are 
very free-growing and produce trusses of flowers, 
with a marked odour of violets, the individual 
blooms not more than a half inch across. The 
leaves are shiny and of about the same size as 
those of the memorial rose, but of thinner texture. 
One variety is creamy yellow; the other is white. 
Gloire de Dijon is perhaps the hardiest of the 
tender climbing roses and is excellent if trained 
on a trellis for a comparatively short time. It 
