CLIMBING ROSES 
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. 
Climbing sports do not start to climb until conditions suit them, sometimes never, if 
you do not keep them extremely wet all summer. Explanation of the vagaries of their 
performance will be found in ‘Hennessey on Roses.” 
EVERBLOOMING CLIMBERS 
This subject almost brings one into the realm of wanting the moon as one must first 
realize that in its first blooming a rose uses everything it has and must start rebuilding 
after that. And considering that a bush rose cannot do any more than bloom constantly, 
so how can a climbing rose take the large amount of food necessary for constant bloom 
and then from magic source get the substance to throw up the huge climbing shoots. This 
takes a large amount of manufactured food which must (95 per cent) come from the 
leaves. Be reasonable, as some roses are able to make a little climbing growth slowly as 
well as bloom; but as to a large amount of bloom and then growth too—well, it just 
isn’t in the cards. Though as is fully covered in my book, when a rose or any plant gets 
old and senescence sets in it will greatly increase its bloom—Beg Pardon? “Yes, I know 
_they do it’ —7n some of my competitors catalogs! 
APELES MESTRES—Has tremendous very double deep yellow blooms and glossy foli- 
age; and is the hardiest of all large flowered yellow climbers. By letting it dry up in 
- the latter part of the summer it’stood zero without the slightest harm. I do not know 
~ how much more cold it will stand. As it is a once-bloomer it really needs some cold 
to make it bloom good. Of my very large collection of:climbers in my garden this and 
Golden King were the only yellow ones to stand that zero wintet.....................---- $1.50 
AMERICAN PILLAR—This famed rose blossoms with immense clusters of single rich 
carmine pink blooms with a white eye, on a strong growing plant with glossy leathery 
foliage. Extremely abundant bloom coming usually in late June, followed by red hips 
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BLOOMFIELD COURAGE—An extremely striking climber of very powerful growth, 
blooming in a great burst of blackish scarlet single blooms that completely cover the 
plant. I have it used as a 16-ft. tall pillar and it is about the most spectacular thing 
in the garden as it is covered from top to bottom with its rich and brilliant blooms— 
must get established a couple of years before really showing what it can do. This fol- 
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