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advantage. Climbing Abel Chatenay will grow 

 eight feet tall in one Summer besides producing 

 in great abundance coppery peach-rose blooms 

 on outreaching strong ^ems. 

 ^ It is an ideal pillar rose, massing all about it 

 the bush Chatenay and bordering it with Eugenie 

 Lamesch, also copper and gold and rose, a perfe(5t 

 little polyantha hybrid of exquisite coloring not 

 often seen in the usual rose garden. 1 might say 

 the same thing of Perle d' Or, the faired golden 

 baby rose imaginable, and again 1 can say it of 

 many of the China roses. 



^ Climbing Abel Chatenay should be pruned with 

 great discretion, so should all the climbing hybrid- 

 teas and teas. Thin out by removing any dead 

 wood, and the old canes on long e^ablished plants 

 so as to make room for the young vigorous new 

 ones springing from the base of the plant. Never 

 permit the crowding of the canes. It is much wiser 

 to sacrifice even one or two, perhaps even more 

 of the brand new shoots than to allow any crowding. 

 ^ Another way is to bow over all excess canes 

 pegging them in to any bare places you wish to 



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