rivals. I have cut sprays from climbing Testout with ^ems 

 nearly twenty inches long, each bearing four and five great 

 unfolding perfe(ft flowers. 



^ We Amateur Gardeners mu^t always remember at pruning 

 time that all the climbing hybrid-teas are to have but the 

 very lighted sort of pruning. Don't prune the tips of the 

 canes at all, that is if they have n't been Winter nipped. If 

 they have, then remove only that portion and no more. One 

 thing we may always do, namely: thin out crowding canes 

 and weak ones. Shall I tell you why the climbing hybrid- teas 

 should not be pruned the same as other climbing roses? 

 Because if they are they are quite likely to go back to their 

 bush form and refuse to climb. 



^ Another point to remember is that they require more food 

 than the ramblers. This is natural when you consider they 

 produce flowers all Summer and Autumn while the ramblers 

 bloom but once. The climbing hybrid- teas also require care- 

 ful Winter protecftion. 



^ There is a fairy climbing polyantha that should be in every 

 rose garden, Cecile Brunner. Wee but perfedt flowers, delic- 

 iously fragrant growing on long, far-reaching canes that can 

 be wound about the base of the sun dial or trained as a border 

 to a pink rose bed or as a weeping specimen, it is a dear dainty 

 little beauty and 1 hope you will plant it in some very special 

 place in your garden. As there is a miniature bush Cecile 

 Brunner, don't fail to specify when ordering that you want 

 the climbing one. 



^ The professional rosarians are producing many wonderful 

 ramblers and nearly all have much better foliage than Lady 

 Gay, the Perkins family, Tausendschon, etc. The success 

 attained by the Dr. W. Van Fleet was purely because of its 



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