CLIMBING ROSES stage a grand show! 



Star Everblooming Climbers give you the showiest sight 

 imaginable at remarkably low cost. Imagine — for just 25c 

 a foot you can cover a fence or wall or trellis with beautiful 

 roses! Use them to screen out unsightly areas, or to touch 

 up a drab spot with beautiful color. Star Everblooming 

 Climbers are hardy, vigorous and long-lived. One bit of 

 advice . . . don't prune away first-year canes because 

 Climbers produce flowers mostly on old wood. Just prune 

 to keep in bounds or to remove dead wood. We list only the 

 finest kinds — and there are not too many of them. These 

 climbers, like all other Star Roses, are, of course, guar- 

 anteed to bloom. 



BLAZE 



(Improved-Repeat Blooming.) One of the most famous of 

 all climbing roses. This is the brilliant red you've seen so 

 many places on fences, arbors, porches and trellises around 

 town and in your travels. This improved strain now gives 

 you colorful masses of flowers in June and again in fall, with 

 some flowers in between. It is a very hardy and enormously 

 vigorous bush. It produces long, willowy canes which are 

 easily trained in any direction you want them to go. In 

 fact. Blaze actually grows like mad but you can keep it in 

 bounds easily enough with your pruning shears. It's a bright 

 rose to brighten your home and property! $2 each; 3 or 

 more, $1.75 ea. 



CLAIR MATIN 



Everblooming (Meilland) Plant Pat. 2186. This climber 

 provides a massive abundance of flowers in clusters — each 

 rose a 3-inch, semi-double, pink jewel — dozens of them to 

 the stem. They have the delightful scent of sweetbrier; and 

 since the 10 to 12-foot canes carry the blooms high and wide, 

 the air around the splendid plant is perfumed. The plant 

 itself is so strong that if left unsupported by fence, pole or 

 trellis, the rugged canes will arch upwards and stand alone. 

 Extra hardy and extra vigorous, Clair Matin blooms con- 

 tinuously, has some flowers even in the first year, and is 

 beautifully foliaged and densely covered. The man in the 

 picture is S. B. Hutton, Jr., president. He's 6 feet tall, which 

 gives you some idea of the great height of this great climber. 

 $3 ea. ; 3 or more, $2.65 ea. 



WHITE DAWN (Not illustrated) 



Though this is perhaps one of the best of the white repeat- 

 blooming climbers, it is rather shy on bloom. It is a medium 

 grower, with good canes and foliage. Blooms are pure white, 

 semi-double and come in clusters. However, you will do 

 better using Sea Foam (see page 26) as a climber as it is truly 

 everblooming, but it will not grow as tall as White Dawn. 

 $2 ea. ; 3 or more, $1.75 ea. 



GOLDEN SHOWERS 



^^^ Everblooming. Plant Pat. 1557. One of the two finest 

 ^^' yellow climbers. The other one is Peace. Nonetheless, 

 they are two different roses, each with its own qualities. 

 Golden Showers is an All-America winner with large daff'odil- 

 yellow flowers. It produces some of them in the first year, 

 and many more thereafter, the plant at that time literafly 

 covering itself with golden blooms. Large blooms, a good 5 

 inches across will make your garden shine. Golden Showers 

 is a favorite also because of its amazingly vigorous, growth 

 habit — so strong and thick are the canes that the plant will 

 almost stand alone without support. That means it can be 

 used as a free-standing shrub or as a climber, as you prefer. 

 If you have a good spot for a good climber and yellow is your 

 color. Golden Showers is your rose. $2.50 ea. ; 3 or more, 

 $2.20 ea. 



RED EMPRESS 



Everblooming. Plant Pat. 1573. Look at the vivid, rich red 

 of these blooms on the bottom of the facing page! They are 

 big as well as bright, reaching 5 inches across. They come 

 plentifully, smell good, and are well-shaped blooms too, like 

 Hybrid Teas. No matter where you plant Red Empress it 

 will provide a cheerful, colorful display of outstanding climb- 

 ing roses. $2.50 ea. ; 3 or more, $2.20 ea. 



MORNING DAWN (Not illustrated) 



Everblooming Plant Pat. 1447. This blushing pink climber 

 is as refreshing as the new day. A lovely light pink overcast 

 with light buff. The bud is large for a climbing rose and has 

 the same color and fine texture as the fully double blooms. 

 The blooms are very large measuring as much as 5 inches 

 across when fully open. They are borne sometimes singly 

 but often several together on medium length, strong stems 

 and are long lasting. Shiny, leathery foliage of oval form is 

 attractive. A good grower but easy to keep in bounds. 

 $2.50 ea.; 3 or more, $2.20 ea. 



FRAU KARL DRUSCHKI 



This rose is a real old-timer. It is a name well-known to 

 most gardeners because it was introduced 'way back at the 

 turn of the century. It has been famous, and in demand, 

 all these years because of its huge, double white flowers 

 which open from classic buds tinged delicately with carmine- 

 pink. The bush is a tall grower and extremely vigorous. 

 The foliage is eye-catching; very dark green. Most people 

 use this durable rose as a specimen or accent plant although 

 it can be spaced out in a row. $1.75 ea. ; 3 or more, SI. 55 ea. 



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IMPORTANT! GEORGE OHLHUS, our vice President and 

 Production Supervisor points out that very few Climbing roses produce 

 any bloom at all the first year they are planted. Occasionallj' they do 

 bloom, but this is a "bonus" or stroke of good luck and should not nor- 

 mally be expected. George points out further that even though Climbers 

 are called Everblooming or Repeat Blooming, this does not mean that 

 they are completely so as in the case of Hybrid Teas, Grandifloras or 

 Floribundas. Climbing roses normally put on a spectacular show of 

 bloom in late spring — with the Everblooming kinds following through- 

 out the season with scattered bloom, but none of which at any time is 

 as full and spectacular as the first bloom. Star Quality Climbers will 

 provide the maximum bloom available in any Climbers. 



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