THE AMATEUR'S ROSE GARDEN 105 



petuals, so I plant it with those roses ; it is, of all red 

 roses, the sweetest and reddest. 



In my opinion climbing roses run altogether too 

 much to the rambler class. To be feure a well grown 

 and well cared for rambler is very beautiful when in 

 full bloom in June, but has little to recommend it 

 the balance of the season, and might well be relegated 

 to a less important place than a front porch and its 

 room given to the large flowered, perpetual bloomers 

 like climbing American Beauty, Mrs. Robert Peary — 

 an exquisitely beautiful rose of tea type with wonder- 

 ful buds of creamy white — Meteor and climbing 

 Wooten, both exceptionally rich colored red roses of 

 tea type, white Maman Cochet, Papa Gontier and 

 others of the class. "Where a rambler is wanted a 

 better selection than crimson rambler is the ever 

 blooming crimson rambler. Flower of Fairfield. Lady 

 Gay, a cherry colored and white of most delicate 

 beauty is one of the best of its class and a very free 

 grower. The much advertised blue rose Veilchanblau 

 is more curious than beautiful, being a violet rather 

 than a blue, but is a very vigorous grower, making 

 beautiful strong canes with handsome foliage. 



Summer care consists of three important features 

 — feeding, cultivating and fighting insect pests; the 

 last should really come first, and last and all the time 

 as there is little let-up, from the unfolding of the first 

 leaf bud until frost, to the incursion of plant lice. 



