remarkable foliage although the flowers are also remarkable. 

 At the time of its introducTtion we had no ramblers with 

 thick, glistening foliage immune to blight, but Silver Moon 

 hurried into favor with its white, salver-shape, golden stamen 

 centered flowers and fine wax-like foliage. Shower of Gold's 

 is as perfecTt a green. Ariel takes fir^t rank, too, with its pink 

 and copper-hued buds, while glorious Evangeline and Lucile, 

 Arcadia, Kalmia, Lady Blanche, Regina and Maid Marion 

 may all claim the wax-like quality of foliage we now look 

 for in the new ramblers. Regina, Maid Marion, Evangeline 

 and Lucile are at their be^ where there is need of big effecfts 

 and where the different tones of lovely pink will be harmon- 

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^ Kalmia is unique. It is so named because both flowers 

 and foliage do bear a resemblance to kalmia the mountain 

 laurel. Arcadia is vividly scarlet, while Lady Blanche is snow 

 white and its blooms wonderful in Midsummer, and it very 

 often blooms again in the Autumn. A delightful rambler 

 is Lady Blanche. I like her be^ wreathing the path to the 

 white rose garden with gold and blue pansies at her feet S$ 

 ^ If we would only keep our ramblers free from old wood, 

 if we would always remove the over-abundance of canes, 

 cutting back the flowering laterals as soon as the flowers 

 fade, cutting them back half way at lea^ or, better ^ill, 

 cut away all of the laterals to three or four inches, the result 

 would always show well-cared for specimens, never crowded 

 and always giving us of their be^. Please do not forget that 

 the ramblers love lime and bone and cultivation, and appre- 

 ciate being tied to an open lattice or any position where they 

 are in the free air. An ounce of sulphate of iron worked into 

 every three feet of soil, will keep them always in good health. 



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