140 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



None of the Roses which I have just described 

 are classified in the catalogues or by writers on the 

 Rose among the Climbers ; but I have ventured so 

 to consider and commend them, for the obvious 

 reason that they are as capable of climbing as 

 Jack's Bean-stalk, and that they produce far more 

 beautiful Roses than those which have been 

 hitherto selected, and almost exclusively desig- 

 nated, as Climbing Roses. The fact is, that Roses 

 generally may be induced to climb, if planted in 

 rich soil against a wall, facing south or east. In 

 such a sunny site, the development of the tree, once 

 thoroughly established and settled down to its 

 work, is marvellous. Not so rapid, of course, nor 

 so extensive in longitude or latitude, as with the 

 more nomad and wandering tribes, but such as to 

 astonish those Rosarians who have only seen a 

 less favored growth, and to satisfy in time almost 

 any requirements as to the space which has to be 

 covered. In half-a-dozen summers many of the 

 Hybrid Bourbon, Hybrid China, and GaUican 

 Roses, will reach the eaves of an ordinary dwel- 

 ling, as I have proved with Charles Lawson and with 

 Coupe d'Hebe ; and in a decade the side of a good- 

 sized house might be decorated with such a 

 grower as Blairii 2. The bloom is early, ample, 

 and magnificent; but as it is brief, and there is no 



