CLIMBING ROSES 



Effect of T F authors wrote of Roses all the livelong day, and painted 

 Carmine them in words to match their sweetness, they would never 



Pillar and te ^ one na ^ f tne gl rv f tne Queen of Flowers. 



other ^ am no authority on Climbing Roses, I only write from an 



Climb artistic point of view, and after all if we planted from this view 

 we should make more points of interest in a garden. What 

 could be more beautiful than to come suddenly round a corner 

 and find Penzance briars trained up larch poles as pillar Roses, 

 red-orange in the sun, with dark blue Firs for background ? 



It is no use having a new Rose if it is not a good grower, 

 and old favourites should never be discarded for new if they are 

 strong, of good colour, and flower courageously. 



Nothing can compare with the " Carmine Pillar " Rose. 

 One of the most perfect memories I have had this year was a 

 glorious June day in the Barn Garden at Limnerslease. The 

 great artist was dying in his London home I felt we were on 

 holy ground. Two arches of Carmine Pillar spanned the 

 path, great single petalled Roses shining like rubies in the sun. 

 Their white centres were like pearls ; I never saw such a mass 

 of colour anywhere before. The wondrous tiled roof of the 

 great grey barn was half smothered in clusters of the yellow 

 rambler " Aglaia." The wall on one side of the square was a 

 wealth of the dear old Gloire de Dijon, and bushes of old- 

 fashioned pink Roses were in the beds with the grey wood of 

 the barn for background. Next the " Carmine Pillar " arches, 

 pale blue Delphiniums grew they borrowed their tint from the 

 sky when the sun was out on a day in June. They were 



