EVER-BLOOMING ROSES AND VINES 247 



Climbing Roses if they are well placed are a great 

 addition to the grounds; but as they are just as 

 susceptible to disease and to insects as the other 

 Roses, and the positions in which they are used 

 are generally conspicuous ones, they should be care- 

 fully looked after or they will prove to be eye- 

 sores rather than ornaments. Their inaccessibility 

 makes them hard to reach with the spray and 

 duster, and often they are allowed to take care 

 of themselves, with the result that by the middle 

 of June they look as if a sirocco of the desert had 

 breathed upon them and withered them up. When 

 trained against the walls of a building, or in the 

 shelter of a porch, they seem to be more unhealthy 

 than anywhere else; the larvae of the insects and 

 their eggs are more effectively protected than the 

 vines. If you have Roses on the house cut them 

 back frequently, so that you can reach them with- 

 out too much toil or trouble. 



Unless the garden is a large one it would be better 

 not to have a Rose arbour in it; keep this for the 

 Rose garden where it will look more appropriate . If 

 your garden is fenced in, however, train a few Roses 

 over the pickets; a Crimson Rambler perhaps, be- 



