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its neighbor and into the scheme admirably, for 

 its creamy buds come almost with the rose of ten 

 hundred beauties, and its darkly glossy foliage 

 helps the mass effect. 



Coming later than Climbing American Beauty, 

 and at another opening in the hedge, American 

 Pillar has developed into a magnificent plant, 

 which covers itself with great single flowers that 

 range from vivid carmine to a clean pale pink, and 

 that last long in loveliness. A White Dorothy 

 has arched with it, and Mrs. Flight, really a pink 

 rambler, blooms into the same mass. California 

 has nothing on Breeze Hill in rose masses or rose 

 effect during most of June ! 



Opposite Climbing American Beauty is a great 

 Lady Gay, but this rose is really here quite unlady- 

 like in its disposition. It seems to be a mildew- 

 inviter, and my sprayings with potassium sulphide 

 in the accepted English method do not seem to 

 keep the Lady in good health. This means that I 

 shall have to substitute another rose for this or 

 any other climber that has a predisposition for 

 mildew. 



Another climbing rose is "up and coming" in 

 my garden. It is Excelsa, as truly American as 

 the one with the Beauty name or as the Pillar 

 sort. Its raiser, Mr. Walsh, is a much more useful 



