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 can- 
not do any more than bloom constantly, so how can a climbing rose take the 
large amount of food necessary for constant bloom ad 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 
srowth 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 in its bloom. 
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 the same name. 
Climbing sports do not start to climb until conditions suit them, some- 
times 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.” 
Some of the Climbers that from a large plant will give a considerable 
scattering of bloom the whole summer through but most certainly one can- 
not get anything but slow growth along with this continued bloom. However, 
I will here state that NO PLANT will give as much for so little as a climb- 
ing rose if they are treated as a pillar. . 
How? SIMPLY get a piece of 1%-inch pipe 8 feet long. Drive it in the 
ground 3% feet. Then when your rose grows enough, screw on a piece of 4 
feet long smaller pipe and go on as the plant grows older. You had better 
tie the canes tightly to the pipe in the winter in several places then the 
following summer you will have a pillar of glory. BUT— do not put cross- 
arms or ether “gingerbread” on the pipe; just a plain, straight pipe. For fur- 
ther information see my book. Any variety of Climber will look marvelous 
if this is done properly. 
Ask those who have seen my pillars in bloom. There is no special skill 
required to have marvelous pillars. I believe that I am offering the finest 
collection of climbing roses of any grower for this season. Many varieties 
will do well on the north side of the house or building such as the incompar- 
able Climbing Ruth with its huge, light orange blooms produced almost 
steadily the whole summer from the old wood or the deep red orange Climb- 
ing Duchess of Athol with its finely-formed buds and blooms or Hamburg 
with its rich, velvety blackish scarlet semi-double blooms produced with such 
profusion. Naturally, these are from two or three year old plants. Then 
you will have many of any color you want for special conditions. 
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