CHAPTER VIII 



THE ROSE GARDEN (continued} 

 CLIMBING ROSES AND HYBRID PERPETUALS 



DESPITE the excesses of Spring weather to 

 which we poor islanders are subject, what a 

 miracle the opening weeks of the Rose season 

 bring year by year ! Even if we have suffered, 

 as we too often do, the varied rigours of frost, 

 drought, rain, and wind in April and May, 

 by the end of June all is forgotten in the 

 glory of our Climbing Roses. 



If Solomon said that " of making many 

 books there is no end," surely the same may 

 be said of Climbing Roses ; for when will their 

 multiplication ever cease? Yet do we wish 

 it to cease ? I, for one, love them too well 

 not to desire more, and yet more, and again 

 more. New or old, Summer-flowering or 

 perpetual, Tea, Noisette, Rambler, Ayrshire, 



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