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Rover , and Reine Olga de Wurtemburg are 

 three other valuable climbers of hardy con- 

 stitution : but the last is best in early Summer, 

 only bringing a few flowers in the Autumn. 

 Perhaps one of the most persistent of all 

 Noisettes for pillars or arches, next to Celine 

 Forestier, is the charming though small-flowered 

 Alister Stella Gray. On March 30 last year I 

 moved a plant which was being smothered in 

 a shrubbery border, planting it against a stout 

 eight-foot pillar ; and throughout the whole 

 Summer and Autumn it was a solid mass of 

 blossom, every little new brown shoot from the 

 ground upwards being tipped with flower buds. 

 The vitality of these Climbing Roses is a 

 constant source of wonder to me. Some- 

 times, when, sick at heart, I have surveyed 

 my ravaged garden at the end of April, it 

 has seemed impossible that any Rose could 

 survive the late 



" Envious sneaping frost 

 That bites the first-born infants of the Spring." 



And as I look out of my study window in 

 the beginning of July, it is as difficult to 



