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Climbing sports of bush varieties of roses usually are larger 
flowered and have better color than the bush roses from which 
they sported. In the descriptions below the prefix Cl. denotes 
that the rose in question is a sport of the bush of same name. 
RECURRENCES OF BLOOM has in most cases been indicated in des- 
criptions. However, many people prune off the old wood that 
gives recurrent bloom in many climbers. (Always experiment to- 
determine this factor in your climbers.) Too, many once-bloom- 
ing climbers on my plants recur due to the work done on them 
here; however, not all plants shipped out may recur and natural- 
iy I can't tell which plants are going thus to surpass them- 
selves. Therefore continual-blooming or recurrence are noted 
only on roses that definitely recur under most any conditions, 
and many not so noted will give you recurrent bloom. 
t is important to remember that in the case of the average 
Climbing rose, the once-blooming climbers give a great glor- 
ious burst of bloom sometimes extending five or six weeks; for 
display these outrival innumerable valued and most expensive 
once-blooming shrubs. This display is more spectacular than 
that shown at any ONE TIME by the recurrent climbers. However, 
there are roseslisted such as Harmony, Mary Hicks, Mme. Edou- 
ard Herriot, etc., which not only give an overwhelming first 
burst of bloom, but bloom steadily thereafter. 
Since climbing roses must become established before giving the 
most spectacular results, it is not fair to judge them finally 
before their third season. Large quantities of water will en- 
' able them to climb faster: excess of water and nitrogen com- 
bined may prevent their blooming the first season while they 
grow wildly. The remedy for this is of course apparent. 
Occasionally a climbing sport of a bush may refuse to climb in 
its first season, blooming heavily but remaining a bush. This 
is very rare indeed with my plants, and in 9% of cases your 
bush will start to climb rapidly the second spring. Harmony 
is such an extremely heavy bloomer the first year that it often 
climbs slowly, as do a few othersof the true climbers. 
