An Old-World Corner 
In planting climbing Roses there is always a danger 
of falling into the trap that so many amateurs succeed 
in- doing. Because Dorothy Perkins is a very beau- 
tiful climber—and, indeed, so are all the Wichuriana 
class to which it belongs—it is used a little too freely. 
It should be remembered that this particular class 
flowers very late, and that its actual period of full 
beauty is comparatively short. It is well, therefore, to 
use Roses of other classes that flower later and earlier 
in fair proportions. These can be found among the 
free-growing Teas, hybrid Teas, Noisettes, Ramblers, 
Polyanthas, etc., and there are so many of them that 
to mention a few would be to do an injustice to the 
remainder. In every garden there should be reserved 
somewhere a space, perhaps only an odd corner, for a 
few of those freer-growing classes that are very beau- 
tiful, but, on account of their rampant growth, are too 
overpowering in any set scheme. Such are the 
Japanese Rosa Rugosa, the Austrian Briers, and the 
hybrids thereof; the old world Moss, Provence, 
Damask roses, some of which could have been found 
in the gardens of England any time during the last 
three hundred years or more. This old-world corner 
will always be interesting, with its Cabbage Rose, a 
sixteenth-century memory, White Provence, which 
dates from 1777, and York and Lancaster, which, with 
its white and red flowers, will carry back the memory 
to the turmoil of the fifteenth century. 
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