MARCH 39 



up to the top, and nothing shows but a few naked 

 stems. 



One has to find out how to use all these different 

 Roses. How often one sees the wrong Roses used as 

 climbers on the walls of a house. I have seen a Gloire 

 de Dijon covering the side of a house with a profitless 

 reticulation of bare stem, and a few leaves and flowers 

 looking into the gutter just under the edge of the roof. 

 What are generally recommended as climbing Roses 

 are too ready to ramp away, leaving bare, leggy growth 

 where wall -clothing is desired. One of the best is 

 climbing Aim^e Vibert, for with very little pnming it 

 keeps well furnished nearly to the ground, and with 

 its graceful clusters of white bloom and healthy- 

 looking, polished leaves is always one of the prettiest 

 of Roses. Its only fault is that it does not shed its 

 dead petals, but retains the whole bloom in dead brown 

 clusters. 



But if a Rose wishes to climb, it should be accom- 

 modated with a suitable place. That excellent old 

 Rose, the Dundee Rambler, or the still prettier Garland 

 Rose, will find a way up a HoUy-tree, and fling out its 

 long wreaths of tenderly-tinted bloom; and there can 

 be no better way of using the lovely Himalayan B. 

 Brunonis, with its long, almost blue leaves and wealth 

 of milk-white flower. A common Sweetbriar will also 

 push up among the branches of some dark evergreen, 

 Yew or Holly, and throw out aloft its scented branches 

 and rosy bloom, and look its very best. 



