HARDY CLIMBING ROSES, continued 



where they are, the same excellent protective dusting will care for the 

 situation. 



In no class of Roses, we think, is proper pruning more important than in 

 hardy climbers. Remember, they should be pruned as soon as possible after 

 they have finished blooming, usually in July, for mainly on the growth of 

 new branches made in summer and fall will they bloom the following spring. 

 (Full instructions for pruning will be sent on request.) 



The breadth of opportunities for using hardy chmbers has not yet been 

 developed as it ought to be. Everyone recognizes the way in which they may 

 be trained to cover a treUis or a porch, or even a house; few know how beau- 

 tiful they are trained on stakes (see illustration, page 58) or pipe posts from 

 4 to 8 feet in height, in English pillar form. These Roses will make an old 

 stone fence an object of magical beauty when covered with their burst of 

 bloom, and will soften its outlines the rest of the year with good branches, 

 good foliage, and, not infrequently, the scarlet seed-vessels called "hips." 

 Embankments can be held and covered with hardy chmbers, and the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad, not far from Philadelphia, as well as the New York, 

 New Haven & Hartford, north of New York City, have done wonders in 

 economic maintenance through the use of hardy chmbing Roses, which also, 

 when in bloom, excite the admiration of the passing traveler. Allowed to 

 grow at will, or ^vith the sKghtest training on fences, or self supporting, superb 

 hedges can be worked out of hardy climbers, and, as well, lovely specimen 

 plants on the lawn. With just a Httle training they can be interspersed in 

 shrubbery, among lilacs, or spireas, or deutzias, 

 being far more beautiful than any of these when 

 out of bloom. 



In central New York one wise lover of 

 mankind has planned to use the hardy 

 climbers to distinguish a stretch of improved 

 highway. Many a farm lane would become a 

 restful place if these easily handled self- 

 maintaining gro^vths were given a chance. 



In the following pages the 

 climbing Roses are listed alpha- 

 betically 



After the name of each va- 

 riety we say either "early," 

 "midseason" or "late," which 

 in this part of southern Penn- 

 sylvania means the time the 

 variety blooms here. "Early" 

 means about June 1 and "late'* 

 means the first part of July. 



You can revel for fully six 

 weeks in a succession of bloom 

 that the hardy climbing Roses 

 provide, if you will plant several 

 representing each of the bloom- 

 ing periods from the earhest 

 to the latest. 



This is Dr. J. Horace McFarland, Editor of the A. R. 

 S. Rose Annual and his Climbing American Beauty. 

 See this Rose in natural color on page 63. 



• STAR ROSE GROWERS 



West Grobe, Pa. 



HARDY PILLAR ROSES occupy Uttle space. 

 See illustrations on pages 56, 58, and 62 



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