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are the petty thieves who steal flowers. 
At night, these conscienceless, craven 
miscreants carry away potted plants 
from verandas ; they do not hesitate to 
lift newly set plants from porch boxes ; 
and 1 have known of cases where they 
even removed flowering plants from 
graves in the cemetery. What punish- 
ment could be severe enough for such 
depraved human ghouls ? Let us trust 
satan, at the great final reckoning, to 
have something fit. 
The Glad Philosopher. 
Climbing Roses. 
[ Continued from page 51.] 
as it passed a station not far from Philadel- 
phia, I saw a lovely sheet of pink bloom 
made by Dorothy Perkins Roses all along the 
sides of the cut through which the track ran. 
Here was another fine Rose use. 
I ought earlier to have explained a basic 
difference between the so-called ever-bloom- 
ing or hybrid tea Roses and the hardy climb- 
ers. The former produce flowers on the growth 
of the same season, from the ground or from 
existing stems ; indeed, they tend to make 
buds always as they grow, and if they can 
be kept growing they will keep blooming all 
the summer. In spring they are properly 
trimmed down rather closely, to induce the 
quick growth which means quick bloom. 
They will have some flowers even if cut to 
the ground. 
The hardy climbers now in use are of 
different habit. The bloom shoots for the 
June shower of Roses arise from the canes 
or shoots of last summer’s growth, and less 
freely from the older canes. No flowers 
come on shoots of the current season. Con- 
sequently, they are best pruned immediately 
after they bloom, rather than in the spring, 
save for the removal of any end shoots that 
have been frost-pinched in winter. 
I trust the Rose-loving mothers who have 
followed thus far will see new uses for the 
lovely climbing Roses now available. In the 
corner of the shrubbery ; fronting the vege- 
table garden ; the Rose pillars marking cer- 
tain path entrances; a “Rose-fan” trained 
out upon a trellis visible from the window 
most often looked from ; a sloping bank 
covered with a tangle of climbing Roses 
treated as trailers ; these and other Rose 
adornments will have proposed themselves, 
I am sure. 
Now I may well take up the varieties of 
these newer climbers which I am so anxious 
to have begin their proper work of home 
glorifying in the spring of 1918. 
The old Crimson Rambler has served its 
turn, and the far better Excelsa should 
be planted instead. Of pink climbers, Lady 
Gay and Dorothy Perkins are both good, and 
I cannot tell them apart. The good Rose 
Farquhar comes a little earlier, and looks 
like the last two. Mrs. F. W. Flight is a 
more definite pink, and a marvelous bloomer, 
in its once-produced but long-enduring mass. 
White Dorothy is just what its name im- 
plies, and is both lovely and reliable. Mrs. 
M. H. Walsh is also white, and is peculiar in 
its trailing disposition, though it may be 
used to climb. It has the advantage that its 
foliage turns to a rich purple bronze color 
before frost takes it from the plant. Taus- 
endschon is the one best climber of this 
cluster class, and it can be called both pink 
and white, for it is both. Its growth is dif- 
ferent, and it is thornless. 
Goldfinch is a good cluster yellow, but its 
hue fades to primrose when the buds open. 
Gardenia is lovely, but Aviatear Bleriot is 
more so, for it has buds of such dainty apri- 
cot beauty, so delightfully perfumed, that 
visitors to my garden always prefer it to 
more showy sorts. 
All those just mentioned, save Aviatear 
Bleriot, have small flowers in large clusters. 
The newer class having large flowers, and 
sometimes clusters of them, includes Climb- 
ing American Beauty for crimson, Dr. W. 
Van Fleet, Christine Wright and Miss Helyett 
for pink, and Silver Moon and Purity for 
white. All are fine, and all hardy to the 
latitude of Rochester, but not of Chicago with- 
out protection. Like the other ramblers, 
they do not seem to prosper in the far south, 
where the rest given by winter’s cold is de- 
nied them. 
The single climbing roses are, to my mind, 
altogether worth while. Professor Sargent, 
the most acute authority on hardy plants, 
seems to think that American Pillar is the 
most beautiful Rose ever grown in this 
country. Hiawatha and Leuchstern are close 
to it, while Paradise, Milky Way and Evan- 
geline also are lovely. Sargent — the Rose, 
not the man !— seems to me like a glorified 
apple blossom. Indeed, there is a lovely 
simplicity about those single Roses that most 
highly commends them. 
There are climbing forms of some of the 
hybrid teas, but they are not reliably hardy. 
Many other hardy climbers are in the 
catalogues, and they are probably of merit. 
I have, however, written only of those I 
know about, it being a rather settled con- 
viction with me to tell of what I have per- 
sonally tried, rather than of what I have 
read or heard. Certainly within the list I 
have given there is ample choice of color, 
habit and form, to break the monotony of 
seeing in the June countryside only two or 
three climbing Roses! 
J. Horace McFarland. 
T. Dabney Marshall, of Mississippi, 
author of the article in the February 
issue entitled, "A Roseless Garden,” 
makes some interesting statements as 
to the advertising value of The Flower 
Grower on page 54. 
It is really strange and surprising how 
few people really read on a subject in 
which they are vitally interested. It 
is probably a fact that many flower 
growers who spend a large amount of 
money each year in the purchase of 
new stock for planting, do not subscribe 
for any sort of a floral publication 
and do little or no reading on this sub- 
ject except what comes to them in the 
daily papers and we know how inac- 
curate and meagre this is. Those who 
subscribe for and actually read a publi- 
cation devoted exclusively to flower 
growing have an advantage over the 
non-readers which is many fold. But 
read what Mr. Marsh says. He has 
expressed it in a few words and much 
more concisely than we are able to and 
besides, his statements have the weight 
of actual experience. 
Gladiolus Studies II. 
( Continued from page 53 . ) 
98 to 105 days.” They do not require 
a high temperature, 50 at night and 
60 day, and later 5 warmer will give 
best results. 
Under “ Insect and Animal Pests,” 
mention is made of red spider, the 
greenhouse pest which is especially 
troublesome on Colvillei, and wire 
worms, which eat the corms, and aster 
beetles and moths which are some- 
times troublesome above ground. 
“ Gladiolus Diseases ” have been dis- 
cussed in the first article of this series, 
in the April number. 
Cutting Gladiolus 
Corms Before Planting. 
One of our subscribers reports the 
best of success in cutting up some old 
flat Gladiolus corms. He states that 
he never had a better stand. Some 
very small flat corms were cut in two 
pieces, and the larger ones were cut 
into three and four pieces. Every 
piece produced a fine corm and two of 
the pieces produced two corms each, 
and several of the plants produced a 
few cormels. 
This plan of cutting Gladiolus corms 
to an “eye” is a valuable one for the 
rapid increase of new or rare varieties. 
It is based on the fact that each “eye ” 
draws more nutriment if planted singly 
than if the corm is planted entire. It 
simply gives a greater area of fertility 
for each individual “ eye” to work on. 
Joe Coleman, of the Austin-Coleman 
Co., Wayland, Ohio, on seeing the illus- 
tration of a divided flower spike of 
Evelyn Kirlland in the April issue, 
writes that he noted this characteristic 
of Kirlland in their fields last summer 
and marked a dozen or more spikes, 
but the record was lost at digging 
time. This may be a trait of this par- 
ticular variety which can be fixed by 
selection. 
Statement of the Ownership, Management, Cir- 
culation, etc., required by the Act of Congress of 
August 24, 1912. of The Flower Grower published 
monthly at Calcium, N.Y., for April 1. 1918. 
State of New York ) 
County of Jefferson ! ss: 
City of Watertown 1 
Before me, a Commissioner of Deeds in and for 
the City, State and County aforesaid, person- 
ally appeared Madison Cooper, who, having been duly 
sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is 
the Owner of The Flower Grower and that the 
following is, to the best of his knowledge and be- 
lief, a true statement of the ownership, manage- 
ment, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date 
shown in the above caption, required by the Act of 
August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws 
and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, 
to wit : 
1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, 
editor, managing editor, and business managers are: 
Publisher— Madison Cooper, Calcium, N.Y. 
Editor— Madison Cooper. Calcium, N. Y. 
Managing Editor— Madison Cooper. Calcium. N.Y. 
Business Manager— Madison Cooper. Calcium. 
N.Y. 
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N. Y. 
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or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or 
other securities are : 
None. 
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security holders, if any. contain not only the list 
of stockholders and security holders as they ap- 
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cases where the stockholder or security holder ap- 
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or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the 
person or corporation for whom such trustee is 
acting, is given ; also that the said two paragraphs 
contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge 
and belief as to the circumstances and conditions un- 
der which stockholders and security holders who do 
not appear upon the books of the company as trus- 
tees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than 
that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no rea- 
son to believe that any other person, association, or 
corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the 
said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated 
by him. 
(Signed) Madison Cooper. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th 
day of March, 1918. 
[Seal.] 
(Signed) Loris C. Denny, Comm, of Deeds. 
(My commission expires Dec. 31, 1918.) 
