Feu d’ Artifice, semi-double, very fragrant flame-colored rose that holds 
its color though being everblooming is not a cucumber-like climber in speed. 
For the sheer breath-taking display of properly pillared once-bloomers, 
Sanders White Rambler, Bloomfield Courage with its non-fading deep scar- 
let blooms. Violette for a novety par excellence with its small deep violet 
blooms in clusters. For the cool Northwest especially use Golden Dream 
with its huge deep yellow blooms—it fades in the hot east as does the health- 
iest of yellow climbers. Golden King, a clear, canary yellow, or the Dr. Eck- 
ner with its talisman-colored blooms produced steadily and hardy, too. The 
best of the coppery-coral Climbers is Chas. P. Kilham and Climbing Mme. 
Henri Guillot. Use-lots of pillars and have a fairyland in your back yard— 
simple and productive. 
Due to crop failure I do not have some varieties that I listed last season 
and am very short of others and if you do not order very early in the season 
I will probably be sold out of these and maybe some other varieties, so please 
give substitutes. Remember it is simply no use to order these next spring 
as it will simply cause unnecessary correspondence: Climb. Dainty Bess, 
Guinee, Mme. Gregoire Staechlin. 
Also I wish that my cold section customers would realize that large 
flowers, fragrance and red are positively not to be had. In really hardy roses 
Climb. Daily Mail is no doubt the hardiest of the lot and this season all I have 
to offer is budded on Canina, this of course will give suckers which will have 
to be dug out but as you can bury the bud union of canina several inches 
without harm to the vigor of the plant, I feel that it is worth while as Canina 
makes the rose on top of it many degrees hardier. It will be several years 
more before I again will have any climbers on Canina but eventually I expect 
to bud them all on it in spite of the bad suckering as the plants seem to live 
many years longer and are vastly hardier, also you can bury the union of 
Canina and the rose without any devitalization such as will occur with any 
rose having any amount of China in its blood. The exception to this is where 
Foetida is dominant such as in Angles Mateu or like Soure Therese where 
the combination of centifolia plus Foetida make it resistant to deep plant- 
ing while in heavy soils wherever there is dominant China or Gigantia your 
rose may die at the union after 4 or 5 years if drainage is not perfect. That 
is why many of the old dumbbells stressed drainage for roses, which is not 
too important. They were protecting their mistakes in deep planting as it 
was simpler for them to blame drainage than themselves. Most perfectly 
formed roses of today that have slim buds get it through Ophelia or some 
other roses of like parentage. So if you are not real sure of your genetics, 
it is better that you follow my planting instructions. 
Customers in the colder states will order the climbers starting with Cl. 
at their own risk as most of them are far too tender with one exception 
which is Climbing Daily Mail. By some strange quirk this plant is one of the 
hardiest of the true rich red Climbers though it gets a little mildew in the 
Puget Sound and coastal areas of Oregon climate. But for the rest of the 
country it does not even get a blackspot. 
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 used it as a 16-ft. 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 d&Or is/folowed by an enormous crop 
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