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PBACTJCAL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS wild eosbs 



Souvenir de Pierre Dupuy, deep 

 velvety red, very large and double ; fine. 



Vivid, vivid crimson, very showy ; a 

 fine pillar or climbing Eose. 



TFiJJiom/esse, purplish-crimson, tinged 

 with lilac, large and double. 



Climbing Roses 



Although the best Olimbing'Boses have 

 already been mentioned in the sections to 

 which they belong, it may be convenient 

 to have a separate list of them for ready 

 reference. With the exception of the 

 Banksian Koses (see p. 396) most of the 

 Climbing Koses are easily grown, and 

 their general culture and propagation are 

 as detailed at p. 382. Their great value 

 for garden purposes consists in the many 

 ways they may be utilised for the ornst- 

 mentation of parts of the garden where 

 no other plant would be so effective or so 

 appropriate, or give such a wealth of 

 blossom and variety of colour. Old trees, 

 old buUdiags, walls, sheds, arbours, per- 

 golas, arches, trellises, banks, and almost 

 any place where long rambling branches 

 will go, are suitable places for Climbing 

 Eoses, provided they are judiciously 

 planted, and not overcrowded. 



The following is a list of some of the 

 best Climbing Boses : — 



HYBRID PBKPETUAL CLIMBERS 



CVi/mhimg Duchess of Norfolk (p. 386). 

 CUmhing Etienne Levet (p. 386). 

 Cliinhing Jules Margottim (p. 386). 

 Climbing Star of Waltham (p. 387) . 

 Climbing Victor Verdier (p. 387). 

 Paul's Carmine Pillar (p. 388). 

 CUmbimg Edouard Morren (p. 388). 

 CUmbing La Fra/nce (p. 388). 

 CUmhing Marie Cointet (p. 388). 

 Climbing Queen of Queens (p. 388). 

 Princess Louise Victoria (p. 389). 



TEA-SCENTED CLIMBERS 



Climbing Kadserin Augusta Victoria 

 (p. 393). 



CUmbing Perle des Jardins (p. 391). 

 CUmbing Devoniensis (p. 391). 

 Climbing Niphetos (p. 391). 

 CheshuMt Hybrid (p. 392). 

 Gloire de Dijon (p. 391). 

 Longworth Bambler (p. 392). 

 Beine Marie Henriette (p. 392). 



NOISETTE CLIMBERS AND THEIR HYBRIDS 



Aimie Vibert (p. 393). 

 AKster Stella Gray (p. 893). 



Blai/ri No. 1 (p. 394). 



Comtesse de Qalard Beam (p. 393). 



JoAine Desprez (p. 393). 



BSve d'or (p. 394). 



Vimid (p. 400). 



Wm,. Allen Bichardson (p. 394). 



OTHER CLIMBING EOSES 



Ayrshire, see varieties (p. 398). 



Bamlcsian varieties (p. 396). 



Cra/moisie superieure (monthly), 

 (p. 394). 



Evergreen va/rieties (p. 398). 



Multiflora or Polyantha varieties 

 (p. 397). 



Mush Boses (E. moschata) (p. 403). 



jB. setigera (p. 404). 



B. wiehuriana (p. 405). 



WILD ROSES.— Besides the florist's 

 Eose, there are several beautiful natural 

 species which deserve a place in the 

 garden. Of course one of the greatest 

 differences between the two groups is that 

 the flowers of the wild species are usually 

 single, and have the general characters as 

 described at p. 382. In the garden forms 

 the numerous stamens have been trans- 

 formed into petals, hence the ' doubling. ' 



Culture and Propagation. — They 

 thrive in good soil, but it is not necessary 

 to take the same amount of trouble over 

 pruning them as vidth Hybrid PerpetuaJs 

 and such like. A thinning out of the 

 branches and dead wood here and there 

 is sufficient, and very Uttle shortening 

 back of the shoots is required during the 

 year. They are not nearly so much 

 subject to disease and insect pests as the 

 garden varieties, and the fact that they 

 vary a good deal in habit — firom dwarf 

 sturdy bushes to long-branched climbers — 

 enables one to use them in many ways. 



They may be increased by seeds, but 

 owing to the ease with which some of 

 them hybridise, the progeny may not 

 come quite true. They are probably best 

 obtaiued by layering the branches, and 

 thus getting them on their own roots, 

 The following is a selection : — 



R. acicularis.— A native of North tem- 

 perate regions, with very prickly stems 

 and very glaucous leaves, composed of 

 about 7 ovaJ, slightly rugose, serrated 

 leaflets. Flowers in June, pale blush^ 

 sohtary, fragrant, followed by yellowish- 

 orange obovoid fruits. 



Culture Sc. as above. 



