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The Garden Magazine, March, 1923 
six or seven flowers a month for the entire season; in other 
words a flower every five days. That would be the ideal 
Rose to plant, giving a fresh bloom by the time the old one 
had faded. 
Any Rose will produce blooms in June. That is the time of 
year when the climatic conditions for flower production are 
nearly perfect. When the hot, dry weather of July and early 
August comes, the plants seem to lose their vigor and throw a 
few poorly developed flowers. As the weather gets cooler to¬ 
ward the end of August most varieties begin to show vast 
improvements in the quality of their flowers. In fact one often 
sees the finest specimens of some varieties in September and 
frequently as late as early October. 
There are also many excellent varieties which will and do 
flower most consistently throughout the season. Mme. Leon 
Pain, Pharisaer, Willowmere, Mrs. A. R. Waddell, Sunburst, 
and Harry Kirk are all continuous bloomers. If a garden of 
such sort be planted, one can be assured of a fresh flower from 
each plant at least once a week. 
Who’s Who Among the Ramblers 
I N DEALING with the Ramblers one hardly expects con¬ 
tinuity of bloom, although in several of the varieties their 
blooming season will extend over a period of four to five weeks. 
The important factors to consider in Ramblers, aside from 
color, are the time and length of flowering period. These two 
items are of great importance especially when one intends using 
Ramblers of certain colors as a background for other flowers, 
whether other Roses, or Annuals, or Perennials, as is frequently 
done. It may happen that a beautiful color effect is entirely 
lost by having a background of dirty faded flowers instead of a 
mass of fresh, soft color. 
The type of flower also deserves especial consideration when 
making a selection for backgrounds as only the small-flowered 
varieties should be used. Wichmoss, a beautiful soft pink 
flower with mossy calyx; Milky Way, a pure white semi-double 
form of Wichuraiana; or Lady Godiva, for example, are suitable. 
In choosing material for specimen pillars, or for trailing ovei 
pergolas, arches, or trellises some of the larger flowered sorts 
are more suitable. 
These Large-flowered Climbers are becoming more popular 
each year and they surely deserve to be better known. Climb¬ 
ing American Beauty, one of the older varieties of this type is 
in many localities still one of the best—a clear rose-pink color 
which holds well even under adverse conditions. (It is counted 
against this Rose for some uses that it “carries its dead,” i. e. 
the faded flowers do not promptly fall away.—Ed.) It is an 
early bloomer and has a season of three weeks. Doctor Walter 
Van Fleet is another pink, very much lighter in color and flower¬ 
ing somewhat later. In fact, the former is frequently finished 
before Dr. Van Fleet is well begun. This and several others of 
the large-flowered varieties make excellent cut flowers for indoor 
decoration. Of this class Silver Moon and Purity lead as all- 
around whites. In yellow the delicately fragrant Gardenia and 
also the wonderfully colored Aviateur Bleriot—the latter not 
strictly large-flowered but really too big for the small-flowered 
group—also furnishes good long-stemmed clusters suitable for 
cutting. Christine Wright is one of the most attractive of this 
group, a beautiful salmon pink, blooms very early, the season 
lasting a full three weeks, and in late August it again throws a 
light crop of exceptionally good blooms. Paul’s Scarlet Climber 
's the best large-flowered red we have to-day—and that is saying 
a lot for a variety. 
Though one hardly expects to find continuity of bloom in the 
Ramblers, yet the time is not far distant when we may look for 
that very quality, and find it. Mr. Peter Lambert (of Ger¬ 
many) has produced five varieties of the small-flowered type 
which do bloom continuously and profusely during the season. 
They send up new canes from the crown and each one is a 
tlower head. 
HOW THE RAMBLERS BEHAVE 
NAME 
. CLASS 
FLOWER 
SEASON 
DURATION 
American Pillar . 
Single, red-white 
Mid. 
3—4 weeks 
Aviateur Bleriot 1 . 
H. W. 
eye 
Orange yellow 
“ 
3 
« 
Baltimore Belle . 
Set. 
Blush white 
3 
Christine Wright 2 . 
Climbing American 
Large, salmon pink 
Very early 
3 
** 
Beauty. 
Large, rose 
Early 
3 
Coquina .... 
H. W. 
Single, coral pink 
“ bright rose 
Late 
3—4 
Daybreak 
H. W. 
Mid. 
3—4 
Debutante . 
H. W. 
Pale pink 
“ 
3 
Delight .... 
H. W. 
Single, cherry-red 
3 
Dorothy Dennison 3 
H. W. 
Cameo-pink 
Late 
3—4 
Dorothy Perkins . 
H. W. 
Pink 
Mid. 
3—4 
“ 1 
Dr. W. Van Fleet. 
H. W. 
Large, cameo-pink 
4—5 
Eisnach .... 
H. M. 
Salmon pink 
Early Mid. 
Mid. 
3 
“ 
Eliza Robichon. 
H. W. 
“ yellow 
4—5 
Evangeline . 
H. W. 
Single, pale pink 
Late 
3 
“ 
Excelsa .... 
H. W. 
Red 
Mid. 
3—4 
Farquhar 
Flower of Fair- 
H. W. 
Deep rose pink 
Late 
3 
“ 
field 4 .... 
H. M. 
Crimson 
Early 
4 
“ 
Frau Gwinnen . 
H. M. 
Lavender pink 
Mid. 
3—4 
Gardenia. 
Large, yellow 
“ 
3—4 
Goldfinch 
Pale yellow 
“ 
2—3 
“ 
Hiawatha 
H. W. 
Single, crimson 
white-eye 
Late 
3—4 
Lady Godiva 
H. W. 
Pale pink 
3 
Lady Gay 
H. W. 
Pink 
Mid. 
3—4 
Longwood 
H. Set. 
Light pink 
3—4 
Louise Sauvage 
H. M. 
Very dark crimson 
Early 
3 
Milky Way . 
H. W. 
Semi-double pure 
white 
Late 
3 
Minnehaha . 
H. W. 
Pink 
Mid. 
4 
Miss Helyette . 
H. Set. 
Flesh pink 
3 
Newport Fairy. 
H. W. 
Single, coral pink 
“ rose pink 
white-eye 
“ 
3 
Paradise .... 
Paul’s Scarlet 
H. W. 
3 
Climber 5 
Large, scarlet 
Early 
4—5 
“ 
Prairie Queen . 
H. Set. 
Lavender pink 
3 
“ 
Purity .... 
H. W. 
Large, pure white 
Mid. 
3 
Rosa multiflora 
White 
Early 
3 
Rosa setigera . 
Pink 
Late 
3 
Rosa Wichuraiana. 
White 
Late 
3 
“ 
Rubin .... 
H. M. 
Red 
Early 
3 
Ruby Queen. 
Red 
Mid. 
3 
“ 
Silver Moon 
H. W. 
Large, cream white 
4—5 
“ 
Sodening 
H. W. 
Red silver pink re¬ 
verse 
Late 
3 
Source d’Or 
H. W. 
Yellow 
Mid. 
3—4 
Tausendschoen . 
H. M. 
Pink 
Early 
4 
Tennessee Belle . 
H. Set. 
Red 
Mid. 
3 
Thornless Rambler 
Deep pink 
Very early 
3 
Trier. 
Creamy yellow 
Early 
3—4 
11 
W. C. Eagan 
Pale pink 
Early 
2—3 
“ 
Wichmoss 
White Dorothy 
H. W. 
Light pink 
Mid. 
3 
Perkins 
H. W. 
White 
3 
Wartburg 
H. M. 
Lavender rose 
2—3 
■Undoubtedly the best yellow climber for colder climates. 
2 Blooms again during August, but not as freely as the earlier flowering 
period. 
3 Makes extremely long canes, if old flowering wood is removed soon after 
blooming. Excellent for pergolas, arbors, walls, etc. 
4 Flowers intermittently until frost. 
5 One of the finest of the large flowered group of climbers. Holds color ex¬ 
ceptionally well. 
The Delicate Loveliness of the Polyanthas 
S ELDOM do the Polyanthas receive the attention which 
they deserve as a class. They are very beautiful little 
plants and are often serviceable in carrying out a color scheme 
when no other plant will fit. For the most part they are fairly 
continuous bloomers, although under extremely severe condi¬ 
tions many of them will become intermittent. 
Several of the good varieties are spasmodic in their flowering, 
but are still well worth growing. Echo, a large light pink: 
Schneekopf, a pure white; and Gloire des Marches, the deepest 
crimson, are intermittent but invaluable. 
Perhaps one of the freest and most continuous is the beautiful 
Baby Elegance. The wonderfully soft orange-yellow of the 
freshly opened flower fading to a creamy white, then changing 
to a clear soft pink puts this smallest flowered variety in a class 
by itself. The flowers are good at all stages. When the petals 
