Fall Is a Good Time To Plant Hardy Climbing Roses 



Climbing Roses for Pillars 



What a glorious sight the hardy climb- 

 ing roses are when grown in pillar form. 

 All you need is strong posts on which to 

 tie each rose as it grows, keep the more 

 vigorous canes tied to the top of the post 

 and any extra growth will bend over 

 gracefully. Then in Juna, oh my! 

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Climbing roses like Dr. W. \'an Fleet, 

 American Pillar, etc., should be planted 

 this Fall. They will make canes 8 to 10 

 feet long next season. These new growths 

 of next year will be practically covered 

 with exquisite roses the following June. 

 As the years go by the plants increase 

 greatly in size and a 5-year old established 

 plant of Dr.W. Van Fleet, climbing Ameri- 

 can Beauty or Silver Moon, will produce 

 thousands of perfect flowers for cutting. 



Ten Choicest 

 Hardy Climbing Roses 



Dr. W. Van Fleet. Flesh pink, large flowering. 

 Silver Moon. Pure white flower. 

 American Pillar. Masses of carmine pink. 

 Paul's Scarlet Climber. The most brilliant 



scarlet climbing rose. Large flowers. 

 Dorothy Perkins. The best known, shell pink 



hardy climbing rose. 

 Climbing American Beauty. Crimson. 

 Tausendschon. Called Thousand Beauties on 



account of its lovely flowers in all shades from 



white to deep pink. 

 Excelsa. Deep carmine pink. 

 Gardenia. Beautiful yellow. 

 Christine Wright. Large, wild-rose pink flowers. 

 Strong, field grown. Star-size plants, $1.00 each. 

 The above set. or any ten you like, for $9.00. 



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The above 10 choicest Climbing Roses, 

 1 of each, and a copv of "How to Grow 

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About the loveliest sight in our rose 



fields in J^une was the row after row of 

 American' Pillar in bloom. For weeks 

 the masses of flowers and attractive color 

 of this perfectly hardy climber made an 

 enchanting picture. Grown on a fence as 

 a hedge, or on arches, it outclasses all 

 other climbing roses for sheer beauty, and 

 the flowers when cut will keep longer than 

 any other known single rose. For mass 

 decoratioti for June weddings there is noth- 

 ing to surpass American Pillar. 



If you have a vacant corner in your 

 yard, plant this beautiful hardy rose to 

 occupy the space and let it take care of 

 itself. You will be enchanted when the 

 great heads of bright pink blooms appear, 

 and the bush is attractive even when not 

 in bloom, on account of its dark, leathery, 

 shiny foliage. 



Wintering Your Roses 



Roses planted in the Fall should be 

 hilled up at once when planted. Roses 

 that were planted in the Spring and have 

 become established before Fall do not 

 need protection until after the first frost, 

 but they should be hilled up to a height of 

 6 or 8 inches before the ground freezes 

 deep. 



Tender roses, like the teas, can be suc- 

 cessfully wintered by bursing them in a 

 trench, 8 or 10 inches deep, before hard 

 freezing, ^^'hen replanting in the spring, 

 prune back to 6 to 8 inches high. This is 

 importaiit. 



These plants can be uncovered and re- 

 planted when danger from hard frost is 

 past, usually about the middle of April in 

 the latitude of Philadelphia. 



You will find that the yellow hybrid 

 teas are more delicate and hard to winter 

 than either the pink or red varieties. Just 

 why this is has never been definitely found 

 out, but our guess is that the yellow hybrid 

 teas are more nearly related to the tender 

 teas than to the hardy hybrid perpetuals. 

 If this surmise is right it will account for 

 the lovely, dearly loved yellow hybrid teas 

 being so easily winter-killed. 



Our advice is to treat t 3w hybrid 



teas like you do the teas them for 



the winter, or hill high. 



The best winter protecciun lor estab- 

 lished roses is to hill earth around the stems 

 of the plants to a height of 6 or 8 inches. 

 Let this freeze and then cover with leaves, 

 strawy manure, evergreen boughs or other 

 open, loose material, the object being to 

 prevent the sun from reaching the branches 

 of the roses while they are still frozen. 



This protection does not prevent the 

 plants from freezing, but it does protect 

 them from a sudden thaw. A plant may be 

 frozen ever so much and not be injured if 

 it is allowed to thaw very gradually, 

 whereas a sudden thaw, caused by sun- 

 shine, might prove fatal. Adequate cover- 

 ing safeguards against this. It also pre- 

 vents growth beginning too early in the 

 spring when such tender growth is likely 

 to be injured by a late frost. 



Some roses will prove entirely hardy 

 while others will have the stems killed 

 back to the point where they were pro- 

 tected. 



Do not let this worry you, for roses 

 require pruning annually. When pruning 

 off dead branches cut back to live wood — 

 also, be sure to see that no suckers are 



coming from the roots of budded roses. 

 Cut off all weak growing shoots. 



In extremely sev-ere climates, where 

 even the hardy climbers, rugosas and 

 hybrid perpetuals will sometimes winter- 

 kill, protect the bush plants by wrapping 

 heavily in straw, thick enough to PRE- 

 VENT RAPID THAWING and protect 

 the climbers by taking them down from 

 the supports on which they are grown and 

 bury them 6 or 8 inches deeo until spring, 

 when they can be tied up again. 



Protect your roses from thawing and 

 sudden freezing again in the Spring and 

 see how many more you will bring safely 

 through the winter. 



While cultivating your Roses, you 



are also unconsciously cultivating the 

 habit of forgetting business or household 

 worries, because roses absorb all your 

 interest and there is no room left for dull 

 care of any kind. 



When you are working with "The Queen 

 of Flowers" you have to get close to Mother 

 Earth, which is good for you (if you're not 

 rheumatic) and your worries have to be 

 "parked" elsewhere, for roses and worry 

 will not associate. 



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