PART VI 

 Lists of Varieties for Various Purposes 



Pillar Roses. — Practically all the Wichuraiana and 

 Multiflora roses may be used for tall pillars, eight to 

 ten feet high. Perpetual flowering roses suitable for 

 pillars, five to six feet high, are Ard's Rambler, Climbing 

 Richmond, Pax, Florence H. Veitch, Griiss an Teplitz, 

 Gustave Regis, Hugh Dickson, J. B. Clark, Johanna 

 Sebus, La France de '89, Lady Waterlow, Lina Schmidt 

 Michel, Madame Isaac Pereire, Trier, W. A. Richardson, 

 Zephirine Drouhin. 



Roses for Weeping Standards. — The Wichuraiana 

 varieties are most suitable ; their slender growths droop 

 readily. Such as Dorothy Perkins, Excelsa, Desire Bergera, 

 Hiawatha, Joseph Liger, Lady Godiva, Lady Gay, Leon- 

 tine Gervais, Shower of Gold, Sodenia, and White Dorothy 

 Perkins are especially attractive. Some of the Multiflora 

 roses and the old-fashioned climbers are also frequently 

 used as weeping standards. 



Roses for Half -Standards. — Arthur R. Goodwin, La 



France, Laurent Carle, Lady Greenall, Lady Roberts, 



Madame Antoine Mari, Madame Edouard Herriot, Madame 



Hoste, Madame Melanie Soupert, Maman Cochet, Marie 



Van Houtte, Melody, Molly Sharman Crawford, Mrs. H. 



Stevens, Souvenir de G. Prat, Walter Speed, and several of 



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