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CLIMBING ROSES. While we are speaking of a trellis for the 

 Prairie Rose, let us also say a word for the climbing Roses. They 

 can well be planted around our little garden or they can be trained on 

 poles, or on the porches. The old Crimson Rambler is disliked by 

 many people because it gets buggy and mildewed. Instead, plant 

 Philadelphia, and surely try Excelsa. When the judges for the Hub- 

 bard Memorial Medal, given to the best Rose introduced during 

 the last five years, decided upon Excelsa as the winner, it meant that 

 this variety was in competition with hundreds of large garden 

 Roses. Excelsa is the hardiest and most brilliant crimson climber 

 we have. Do you want a single crimson climbing Rose ? This is 

 Hiawatha. The finest light pink is without doubt the Dorothy Perkins ; 

 its clean foliage, dainty buds and abundance of bloom are highly ad- 

 mired. Tausendschon, or Thousand Beauties, is surely another peerless 

 pink; the individual flowers are large and stand out prominently in the 

 trusses; the color, which is deep pink upon opening, changing later 

 to white, is exquisite. 



A large flowering variety, and one on which the flowers are produced 

 profusely, is the Christine Wright. The blooms are in small clusters 

 and are of a clear wild-rose pink. The plants are sometimes not great 

 climbers, but they are effective, at least at the base of the pillar. The 

 yellows are rather too tender to be really climbers. Aglaia, or the 

 Yellow Rambler, is beautiful, being deep golden yellow in bud. The 

 pretty glossy foliage of many of these .Roses has been derived from 

 the Memorial Rose (R. Wichuraiana). It is very useful as a ground 

 cover, being unexcelled for covering waste land, and trespassing upon 

 steep banks can be successfully prevented by planting this Rose. 



THE TEA ROSES. The teas really are perpetual blooming; they 

 have exquisite colors and thick, leathery petals; besides this, their buds 

 are pointed, but they are very tender. In other words, they are killed 

 very easily by the frost. All of the readers who have grown Roses at 

 all know this and remark: "Even so, we will continue to try and Win- 

 ter them, for it is surely worth faiHng with some if only a few will grow." 

 The snow-white Maman Cochet is large, fragrant and productive; 

 the color becomes a trifle pink in the Fall. The buds of Lady Hilling- 

 don, deep apricot-yellow in color, are certainly irresistible for cutting 

 to bring indoors. Marie Van Houtte, whose color can be described 

 either as a pink shaded cream white or vice versa, is also charming. 

 Papa Gontier is an extra fine rich rosy red. 



THE HYBRID PERPETUALS. The word "perpetual" in the title of 

 this group is a misnomer; they are not perpetual. They have resulted 

 from a cross between the tea, a perpetual Rose, and the various 



