HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 
1914 
the newer sorts are not at all subject to 
disease. One distinction between most of 
this class and the garden roses the gar¬ 
dener should fix in his or her mind at 
once; while the bush sorts flower on new 
wood, most of the climbing sorts flower 
on old wood, most freely on wood one 
season old. So, instead of pruning in the 
spring—except to cut back any branches 
that may be broken or in the way—the 
regular pruning should be given just 
after the flowering season, when the old¬ 
est wood should be cut out clear to the 
ground. The other canes may be headed 
back and pruned and trained into the de¬ 
sired shape and position. 
The hybrid sweet briers (Lord Pen¬ 
zance hybrids) and other semi-climbing 
or “pillar” roses of similar habit of 
growth, are suitable for training to stakes 
or heavy lateral wires, eight feet or so 
high. Roses so supported sometimes are 
quite bare at the lower part of the canes. 
To correct this give each cane, as it 
grows up, a right angle bend about a foot 
above the ground, before permitting it to 
grow straight up; this checks the flow of 
sap so that the lower part of the cane is 
better nourished. 
Among the many climbing roses of the 
Crimson Rambler and Wichuriana types 
the following are all excellent: Crimson 
Rambler, large clusters of flaming crim¬ 
son, but foliage subject to disease; Flower 
of Fairfield, similar to former, but with 
everblooming tendency; Excelsa, the most 
satisfactory of the crimson Ramblers; 
Dorothy Perkins, very free flowering, 
beautiful light pink, fragrant, a first- 
choice rose in every way; Lady Gay, deli¬ 
cate pink; White Dorothy Perkins, pure 
white; Mrs. M. FI. Walsh, extra large, 
double, pure white; Aviateur Bleriot and 
Shower of Gold are two new yellow 
Ramblers which promise to be much more 
satisfactory than the old Yellow Ram¬ 
bler ; Hiawatha, extremely brilliant crim¬ 
son ; Delight, bright carmine; American 
Pillar, soft pink, are three glorious, 
single-flowered sorts with white centers 
and conspicuous golden stamens. Wichu¬ 
riana, the old favorite “memorial rose,” 
has very fragrant single, white flowers, 
very hardy and much used as a trailing 
rose on banks or walls. The hybrid sweet 
briers are quite distinct. They are espe¬ 
cially useful as a tall, informal hedge; 
they require practically no pruning 
further than to keep them trimmed into 
shape. 
The “Baby,” or dwarf Rambler, is a 
comparatively new class that is not yet 
appreciated nearly as much as it should 
be. Perhaps the most valuable of their 
many desirable characteristics is their re¬ 
markable ability for perpetual ftoivering 
In habit of growth they are really dwarf, 
growing but eighteen inches to two feet 
high without being pruned back. In 
fact, they require no pruning beyond cut¬ 
ting out too old wood and old flower 
stems. They are excellent for low bor¬ 
ders and formal dwarf hedges, and espe- 
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