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describe ; Gustave Regis, a delightful flower 

 especially in bud ; Janet's Pride, a sweet briar ; 

 Lady Penzance, also a sweet briar and raised by 

 the late Lord Penzance by crossing the sweet 

 briar we know so well — the common wayside rose 

 with the beautiful Austrian copper briar ; Mar^chal 

 Niel in the south ; Meg Merrilies, another Penzance 

 briar with crimson flowers ; Paul's Carmine Pillar, 

 the most beautiful red single rose which has been 

 raised; R^ve d'Or, a rose for a warm garden, 

 the flowers being yellow in colour ; Rosa multi- 

 flora, which bears a wealth of small white flowers 

 in clusters ; the Garland, the flowers white, touched 

 with softest pink, more adapted for a fence than 

 a pergola or pillar ; Crimson Rambler, a blaze of 

 crimson in high summer, and William Allen 

 Richardson, which has the colour of a cut apricot. 



This is neither a complete nor an ideal list, but 

 these are the climbing roses I love, because they 

 are in the garden and seen weekly, companions of 

 leisure hours ; but certain roses show to most 

 advantage against a pillar or a pole — such as 

 Conrad F. Meyer. This has the Wichuraiana 

 blood, but there is a prodigious strength in 

 the spiny stems, which shoot up to a great 

 height. Tt is one of the earliest of roses tp 



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