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House & Garden 
On the left, a rose plant with Manetti roots; on the right a plant 
with Multiflora roots. Plant deep enough to cover junction of 
roots and top 2". Plant firmly 
Roses Planted in the Fall 
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ists, and is exposed to the sun at least 
half the daylight hours of every day, 
start the rose adornment there. The 
modern hardy climbing roses are vigor¬ 
ous, adaptable, and easy to grow. There 
are three broad divisions of them—the 
small-flowered cluster bloomers, repre¬ 
sented by the familiar Crimson Rambler 
and its pink sister Dorothy Perkins or 
Lady Gay; the large-flowered Wichu- 
raiana hybrids, represented by Dr. Van 
Fleet and Silver Moon; and the glori¬ 
fied wild-rose single-flower type, repre¬ 
sented by American Pillar and Hia¬ 
watha. The planter may choose which, 
remembering that the small-flowered 
sorts give the largest bloom show with 
the least individual beauty of flower, 
that the single-flowered varieties are 
informal and lovely, and that the other 
group includes regal flowers of the con¬ 
ventional rose form. 
Over a doorway the pink Lady Gay 
is most pleasing, as also is Excelsa, the 
improvement on Crimson Rambler. An 
arbor or pergola may have the fine and 
fragrant Climbing American Beauty for 
crimson and Silver Moon for white— 
and the combination will be very happy. 
Dr. W. Van Fleet will put the pink 
tone between, and extend the season. 
Frau Karl Druschki, Magna Charta, 
Paul Neyron, Anna de Diesbach, are 
reliable and long-enduring varieties. 
Trouble with H. Ts. 
For Screens 
The kitchen screen or the old stump 
will become objects of beauty if cov¬ 
ered with the strong canes of American 
Pillar. The division fence can have 
Paradise and Hiawatha and Milky Way, 
with their star-eyed single flowers, and 
with a little training will become a thing 
of luxuriant beauty. All I have men¬ 
tioned will climb to IS’ or more. 
For more intimate effects, use the 
more or less yellow tints of Aviateur 
Bleriot, Goldfinch, and Alberic Barbier, 
each providing a special beauty of bud, 
and doing best within a height limit 
of 8' or 10'. 
My personal preference is for a con¬ 
siderable variety of these climbers, so 
as to extend the season, at sacrifice of 
the greater impressiveness of a larger 
display of any one sort. My neighbor, 
who thinks otherwise, shows a most 
notable display of Lady Gay over 
arches, and of Leuchstern and Purity 
and White Dorothy on short posts. 
But, the climbers placed, is there room 
and sunshine for some bush roses? If 
only hard-luck conditions exist, and in 
the more rigorous climates, put in sev¬ 
eral Rugosa hybrids—Conrad Ferdinand 
Meyer or Sir Thomas Lipton. Roses 
will surely come! 
Next in order of ability to endure 
hardship are the Hybrid Perpetuals, 
which give a great burst of fragrant 
and opulent bloom in June, and are out 
of business usually for the rest of the 
year, save for a few precious flowers of 
some sorts in favorable autumns. Gen¬ 
eral Jacqueminot, Baroness Rothschild, 
Most of us are adventurers in gar¬ 
dens, and are willing to take chances 
for rose beauty. That is why more 
Hybrid Tea roses are sold and bloomed 
every year than all other classes put 
together. The “H. Ts.”, as they are 
familiarly called, give us form, fra¬ 
grance, size, and color of bloom, and 
theoretically they flower continually, 
wherefore they are much to be desired. 
That the bushes are ill-shaped, undeco- 
rative when out of bloom, and subject 
to bugs and bothers, is the sporting side 
of the rose effort; for if by care and 
attention, plus weather and good for¬ 
tune, we bring them to bloom, how 
great is our pleasure! 
As I write, I am looking at a bowl 
of these roses from my own garden, and 
I am proud that I can have them in 
profusion to look at and to give away 
all through this humid July. Yet 1 
have failed more often than I have suc¬ 
ceeded, and I no longer buy the Hybrid 
Teas with a feeling of their permanence 
in my garden. Why should I worry 
about what may happen, when I have 
had delight far beyond the power of 
the same number of expended dollars 
to give me any other way ? Compared 
with theatre tickets or candy or books, 
the roses are cheaper by far, even if I 
have but a half-dozen blooms in the 
season, and the plants perish later. 
Sufficient unto the hour are the roses 
thereof! 
Buy the Hybrid Teas, therefore, for 
fall planting in the hope of a season’s 
subsequent blooming. Give them your 
best place, your best ground, best pre¬ 
pared, and agree with yourself to pet 
them lovingly in the hope of success, 
but only to try again should you fail. 
If they prove permanent, you are 
ahead! 
H. T. Varieties 
There are nearly a thousand varieties 
of Hybrid Tea roses in American com¬ 
merce, which is fully nine hundred too 
many. Some do best in one place, some 
in another, and some nowhere in Amer¬ 
ica. In the 1920 American Rose Annual 
are many pages of bloom records to 
show which sorts do best in certain 
localities, and these indications are, or 
ought to be, precious in the sight of a 
careful rose buyer. Many rose nursery¬ 
men can give good advice for varied 
localities, but after all, experience is the 
best teacher, and there is much “fun” 
in the failures that turn us toward 
success. 
It is hazardous to name any varieties 
here, yet I may venture to start the 
rose friend with a few of beauty and 
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