GEORG ARENDS—'‘Tue Rosse or a DreAM”’ 
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Gloire de Dijon. Climbing Tea. (1853.) (Glwawr-duh-Dee-Zhoan.) 
Those of you who have been receiving our catalog for some time may tire of the 
repetition, but Dean Hole is too good on this rare old climber, to omit his words, 
written in 1865,— 
“I obey at once the legate of my Queen. I lose no time in stating that the best Climbing 
Rose with which I am acquainted is that which has just announced itself, Gloire de Dijon, 
commonly classed with the Tea scented China Roses, but more closely resembling the Noi- 
sette family in its robust growth and hardy constitution. Planted against a wall having a 
southern or eastern aspect, it grows, when once farily established, with a wonderful lux- 
uriance. I have just measured a lateral on one of my plants, and of the last year’s growth, 
and found it to be 19 feet in length, and the bole of another at the hase to be nearly ten 
inches in circumference. The latter grows on the chancel wall of my church, and bas often 
had three hundred flowers upon it in full and simultaneous bloom; nor will the reader 
desire to arraign me for superstitious practices before a judicial committee when he hears 
that to this Rose I make daily obetsance, because in passing into my church, I must duck 
to preserve my eyesight: Its flowers are the earliest and latest; it has symmetry, S1Re, 
endurance, colour, fine tints—buff, yellow, orange, fawn, salmon, and perfume! It ts 
what cricketers call an ‘all-rounder,’ good in every point for wall, arcade, pillar, standard, 
dwarf, en masse or singly.’’ The good Dean leaves us nothing more to say, except 
the price, which increased quantity permits us to reduce this year to E75 
Grand Cramoisi. Gallica. (1818.) (Krah-mwaw-zee.) Says old-rose 
authority, Roy Shepherd, Ohio—"'A well-shaped plant and a heavy bloomer . . 
probably the best of the crimson Gallicas.’ 1.50 
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