A Pergola of more possible colour to paint. " Dorothy Perkins " is a lovely 

 Yellow pink climber, but I have not yet tested its strength. 

 Roses There is another Rose garden that I love, with a sundial in 



its midst. It has a Rose hedge all round, a double rough trellis 

 covered with Roses on either side. You enter by an arch covered 

 on one side with " Queen Olga of Wurtemburg," a blaze of 

 colour, meeting " Papillon " with much smaller flowers, varied 

 from paler to fuller salmon-crimson. " Madame Alfred Carriere " 

 is on the trellis-hedge, the large white flowers faintly tinged 

 with blush are always sweet-scented. " Claire Jacquier " is 

 there, and the colours blend, for the branches get entwined, and 

 you see it as a whole and do not trouble to bend over labels of 

 each. 



I saw a wall covered with " E. V. Hermanos," I wonder 

 why so few people grow this Rose ? It was one mass of bloom, 

 very sweet-scented, of rosy-yellow shaded with peach and pink. 

 A loving hand disbuds the Rose lest it should bloom itself to 

 death. 



I once saw a long pergola, leading on to the blue beyond, 

 covered with yellow Roses of many kinds " William Allen 

 Richardson" with its dark orange buds, " Alister Stella Gray" 

 shading almost to white, " Aglaia," " Reve d'Or," and 

 " Bouquet d'Or." It was a wonderful sight, for the flowers 

 crept underneath and over, and grew in a golden tangle catch- 

 ing the sun in showers. At its base ran a narrow border of 

 dark purple Heliotrope, its sweet fragrance meeting the scent f 

 Roses in mid-air. 



After all we may prate of new climbing Roses, but is there 

 any Rose which really beats our faithful old friend Gloire de 

 Dijon ? with its great strong arms reaching round the house and 



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