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Some of the Good Varieties of Climbers 



Dorothy Perkins. Delicate pink. One of the best pink climbers; foliage 



excellent, glossy. 

 Philadelphia. Crimson. A much better Rose than Crimson Rambler, 



but a trifle later. 

 Excelsa. Deep crimson. An exceedingly hardy, rapid growing climber 



of a brilliant color. 

 Tausendschon. Several shades of pink. One of the large flowering 



climbers, indispensable for each person's Rose garden. 

 Christine Wright. A lovely pink. Large flowers, borne singly and in 



cluster; beautiful in bud and bloom. 

 Hiawatha. Ruby carmine. One of the finest single climbing Roses; 



the plants are a mass of bloom. 

 Silver Moon. Large, single white. Superb foliage; rampant growing. 

 Dr. Van Fleet. Salmon pink. A double and a good grower; long stems. 

 Aglaia. Yellow Rambler. A good lemony variety with numerous 



stamens. 

 Gardenia. Superb glossy foliage and truly Gardenia-like flowers. Ex- 

 cellent if hardy. It is inclined to freeze back to soil in colder regions. 



When to Plant Garden Roses 



When you decide to plant some new Rose bushes, select a good 

 spot; one that receives the sun the greater part of the day, a place 

 which is a little sheltered from the wind, but not surrounded by high 

 fences or buildings, remembering at the same time that many trees 

 rob Rose beds of their fertility and moisture. Dr. Huey, of Phila- 

 delphia, once said that it was much better to plant a fifteen-cent 

 Rose bush in a fifty-cent hole than it was to plant a fifty-cent Rose 

 bush in a fifteen-cent hole. This fifty-cent hole need not cost us a 

 cent, except some good exercise. Soil for Roses should be prepared 

 at least two feet deep and its enrichment should consist of the addi- 

 tion of well decayed, not fresh, manure. One always thinks of 

 Roses as preferring clay soil and it is very true that when Roses are 

 once established in this soil their blooms are large and of excellent 

 substance. Roses when set out among other plants hardly do so 

 well as when assigned to a definite bed of their own. These beds 

 should be not less than 3 feet and not more than 6 feet wide. When 

 the beds are too narrow, the grass roots intrude from both sides 

 and rob the Roses and when too wide it is difficult to pick the Roses 

 without one's shoe becoming muddv. Furthermore, it looks nicely 

 to see a bed which is perfectly cultivated and which has not been 

 stepped upon. It is much better to plant in the Spring, in which 

 case we do not have so great a loss of plants. This does not mean 

 that we cannot olant in the Autumn, but there is danger of the 

 plants not becoming established before the frigid conditions of 



