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climbing roses in the world — the Wichuraiana 

 group — produced by our hybridizers through 

 crossing it with Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals. 

 Of it authorities say that it does well in all sorts 

 of situations, which is literally true; and inas- 

 much as it and its offspring are climbers, there 

 is the added feature of its requiring space ver- 

 tically instead of horizontally, to recommend it 

 to the smallest garden. 



Furthermore, nothing ever ails roses of wich- 

 uraiana parentage — and insects never seem to 

 care to devour them. Their foliage is invari- 

 ably glossy and even without the flowers the 

 plants are highly decorative — which cannot be 

 said of the hybrids of the Multiflora group, 

 another developed about the same time from the 

 multiflora rose, introduced also from Japan. 

 The well-known crimson rambler is an example 

 of this class, remarkable many of them in florif- 

 erousness but nearly all marred by suscepti- 

 bility to mildew and the depredations of in- 

 sects. Among climbing roses therefore always 

 look for wichuraiana parentage and avoid mul- 

 tiflora parentage — unless proof of foliage quality 

 throughout the season in one of the latter is 

 available. 



The Noisette roses are a much older class — 

 three generations older indeed — distinguished 



