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House '& Garden 
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The Fifty Best Climbing Roses 
(Continued f 
Lemon Pillar, Blush Rambler, Auguste 
Roussel, etc., are particularly effective 
when used as pillar roses. By this I 
mean virtually what the name implies— 
a pillar of roses. By training the shoots 
around a central support such varieties 
can be kept within bounds, producing a 
more or less formal outline. 
The best method of pruning the gen¬ 
eral run of climbers is to cut away en¬ 
tirely the shoots that have just finished 
flowering, leaving the strong young 
canes that are produced each year from 
the root. These shoots then develop 
rapidly during the remainder of the 
summer and flower profusely the follow¬ 
ing year. Therefore only one-year old 
wood should be allowed to remain, 
pruning out the remainder immediately 
after it has borne flowers. This method 
should be followed for show climbers, 
but if an arbor or pillar is to be covered 
permanently, only the wood three years 
old or more need be cut back to a strong 
side shoot. This also should be short¬ 
ened to produce the flowering wood for 
the following season. 
One of the most important requisites 
of good planting is deep digging. Each 
plant should have a hole prepared for 
it at least 3' square by 2' deep. Good 
draining is essential. Fill the bottom 
with a 6" layer of old sods inverted or 
rough clods of earth. Next comes a 
layer of well rotted manure of the same 
thickness, which in turn must be covered 
with the best soil you can obtain. Gen¬ 
tly firm this by treading and then plant 
your rose in fairly heavy, rich clay- 
loam, and plant firmly. The depth to 
plant can be ascertained by the earth 
mark on the stem. It is generally ad¬ 
visable to plant a little deeper than this 
indicates the plant has been before. 
Watering—nay, soaking—should be at¬ 
tended to at once and also periodically 
throughout the summer, as well as the 
ordinary watering that is in the curricu¬ 
lum of every gardener. For thorough 
protection against Jack Frost I have 
found it best to cut the whole plant 
away from its support, lay it on the 
ground and cover entirely with about 6" 
f • ■ h In the 
indicated. 
These dates can be assumed as correct 
only in the vicinity of New York City, 
and I find that fifty miles difference in 
latitude cause, roughly speaking, six or 
seven days’ variation. Thus the approxi¬ 
mate time of flowering can be deduced for 
almost anywhere in the Eastern States. 
Editor’s Note:—Twenty years ago a 
few rose lovers founded the American 
Rose Society, holding before them the , 
ideal “To increase the general interest in 
the cultivation and improve the stand¬ 
ard of excellence of the rose for all peo¬ 
ple.” A score of years have passed, and 
the Society has fulfilled its purpose well. 
Today it stands among the leading horti¬ 
cultural organizations of this country, 
with a large membership, annual ex¬ 
hibits, and a marked value to its mem¬ 
bers through the publication of the 
American Rose Annual, a thoroughly 
readable and helpful volume, as well as 
in numerous other ways. To its mem¬ 
bership rolls are welcome all who be¬ 
lieve in the universality of the rose, 
whether amateur or professional, wheth¬ 
er growing one rose or one thousand. 
It is with pleasure that we take this op¬ 
portunity of urging the rose lovers 
among our readers to join the Society, 
for their own benefit as well as that of 
their favorite flower. Information re¬ 
garding dues, privileges, etc., will be fur¬ 
nished upon application to Mr. E. A. 
White, Sec’y American Rose Society, 
Ithaca, New York. 
Kitchenette Claims in the League of Rations 
(Continued from page S3) 
outside to the best possible advantage, to have ice cream or whipped cream 
For the most part these kitchenettes with which to employ the electric 
are run by gas, but are for that reason kitchen power unit which can perform 
cheaper in the cities like New York, all these miracles, and one is led into 
where there is no cooking rate for elec- gustatorial and epicurean extravagances 
tricity. by cooking, boiling, baking and grilling 
But the new appliances for the elec- at the same time on the new stoves. A 
trie kitchenette are like toys, they are whole dinner can be cooked on the 
so fascinatingly contrived. One is crazy (Continued on page 78) 
The secret of kitchenette suc¬ 
cess is a compact plan. In this 
scheme all working parts are in 
close proximity 
