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the most favorable season, discolors, mildews and balls in most of 
this section, but is still planted because it gives another scattering 
bloom in the Fall. 
RAMBLERS 
Ramblers are those Climbers characterized by long, pliant canes, 
renewing themselves from the ground each year, and covered 
with sprays or clusters of small flowers. They are the worst snare 
awaiting the amateur Rose-grower. Although they are deceptively 
beautiful and healthy-looking at times, even with the most open 
treatment, in the full sunlight, hardly one will prove immune to 
mildew in most sections of the Southwest. A bonfire of Dorothy 
Perkins, White Dorothy, Excelsa, Coronation, Hiawatha, La 
Fiamma and the countless others of similar type, might light the 
way to some really healthy and satisfactory successors, since a gar¬ 
den needs their type (with a new constitution) properly to clothe 
its post and pillars, for the Rambler is the only type of Climber 
which can be used to really good advantage twined around a post 
or in festoons along a rope. 
If you must have Ramblers, the best way to handle them is to 
plant them in the open where they will have free circulation of 
air. Cut out at the ground all the previous season’s growth each 
year immediately after they have finished blooming. Spray as 
often as you have the strength, with any good fungicide or sul¬ 
phur mixture. The results are apt to be the same, no matter what 
you do. In a dry season there will be very little mildew and in a 
wet one, plenty. 
PILLAR ROSES 
The Pillar Roses are those which, not being of such tall, strong 
growth as the true Climbers, may be trained on a high post, or 
like a fan on a fence or trellis. This latter treatment is the more 
desirable as the canes are usually, when mature, too stiff to bend 
without breaking. This pillar group embraces the most desirable 
of all the climbing Roses since as a class they are healthier than the 
Ramblers and more easily handled than the tall Climbers. The 
Ramblers 
Classified 
Suggested 
Locations 
Treatment 
of Pillar 
Roses 
