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 adaptabihty, and their 

 wonderful beauty when in bloom, they come nearly being "the one best bet" 

 .in Rose-growing. 



The modern hardy climbing Rose is as different from the chmbers 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 adaptabihty 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 in bud 

 and open to dehghtful whiteness. 



The hardy chmbing 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 showing 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 estabhshed, for there have 

 been innumerable hybrids between them, 

 which is why we do not separate them, 

 but call the class that of hardy chmbers. 

 All the hardy chmbers 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 certain 

 seasons are subject to mildew, but that 

 bother may usually be averted by the use 

 of "All-In-One" (see page 13) which will 

 also take care of occasional attacks of 

 the green plant hce and leaf-eating 

 insects. Most of the hardy chmbers are 



Bess Lovett: See page 62 



^JIOSES: $1 each: lo for $<f.oo; $80.00 per loo 

 25 or more at 100 rate. For delivery cost, see page 98 



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ROBT. PYLE, Pres. 



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