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earth at the top of some high retaining wall or 

 bank, letting its branches droop over and hang 

 toward the level below. The Dorothy Perkins 

 has the same strong habit of growth as the more 

 familiar Crimson Eambler and the flowers are 

 borne in clusters of thirty or forty. 



From time to time new varieties of climbing 

 roses are introduced and almost all of them are 

 well worth planting but the beginner will doubt- 

 less find that the red, pink and white blossoms 

 of the Eambler, Dorothy Perkins and the Wich- 

 uraiana will answer his purposes. Climbing 

 roses should be planted ho closer than four feet 

 and the soil in which they are set, should be more 

 deeply cultivated than for other vines. In 

 training them avoid taking their stems in a di- 

 rectly vertical course for this tends to take the 

 sap to the top and to denude the lower part of 

 the plant. Avoid this by bending the shoot in 

 one direction or another then permitting it to 

 take its upward trend if desired. 



Clematises are familiar vines in many places 

 and because of their good qualities should be 

 even more extensively grown than they are. 

 They require a fairly rich soil of a light, loamy 

 character and will be all the happier if a little 

 lime or old mortar is mixed with it. The soil 



