HARDY CLIMBING ROSES 
These are the best Roses to use to introduce Roses where Roses have not 
been. Because of their hardiness, their vigor, their adaptability, and their 
wonderful beauty when m bloom, they come nearly being “‘the one best bet” 
in Rose-growing. 
The modern hardy climbing Rose is as different from the climbers our 
grandfathers knew as a Rolls-Royce car is from an ox-team. Both the ox- 
team and the automobile get there, and the old Prairie Queen and the modern 
Dr. W. Van-Fleet also both get there, because both are vigorous, hardy, and 
adaptable. But the breadth and richness of color, the variation in size and 
form of flower, the introduction of many different habits of bloom, the 
wonderful adaptability to various uses, that characterize the modern hardy 
climbing Roses, make the above comparison seem not too extravagant. 
Now we have varieties the flowers of which are as large and quite as 
beautiful as any borne on Hybrid Teas, and in color ranging from deepest 
crimson and brightest scarlet all the way to pure white, through intermediate 
shades of pink and salmon. To this we add now definite and dependable 
yellow flowers, as well as many lovely sorts that are canary or chrome m bud 
and open to delightful whiteness. 
The hardy climbing Roses are broadly in two major types, the older of 
Japanese Multiflora bloom, characterized 
mostly by large clusters of relatively small 
flowers, while the other, the Wichuraiana 
type, though not infrequently showmg the 
cluster habit, tends mostly to much 
larger flowers, running 3 inches across, 
and over, and in all grades of doubleness, 
from the exquisite single Roses to the 
many-petaled forms. 
These two broad classes are by no 
means firmly established, for there have 
been innumerable hybrids between them, 
which 1s why we do not separate them, 
but call the class that of hardy climbers. 
All the hardy climbers are of vigorous 
growth, and some of them are rampant in 
their habit, making canes 10 feet or more 
each year. They are usually easy to 
handle, being quite resistant to insects 
and diseases. Some of them in certam 
seasons are subject to mildew, but that 
bother may usually be averted by the use 
of “Star Rose Dust”’ (see page 13) which will 
also take care of occasional attacks of 
the green plant lice and leaf-eating 
insects. Most of the hardy climbers are 
Bess Lovett. See page 63 
The Conard-Pyle G. || * ROSES: $1 each; 10 for $9.00; $80.00 per 100 
ROBT. PYLE, Pres. 25 or more at 100 rate. For delivery cost, see page 98 
