Climbing roses

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Climbing Roses

While we are speaking of a trellis for the Prairie Rose, let us also say a word for the climbing Roses. They can well be planted around our little garden or they can be trained on poles, or on the porches.

The old Crimson Rambler is disliked by many people because it gets buggy and mildewed. Instead, plant Philadelphia, and surely try Excelsa. When the judges for the Hubbard Memorial Medal, given to one of the best Roses introduced, decided upon Excelsa as the winner, it meant that this variety was in competition with hundreds of large garden Roses.

Excelsa is the hardiest and most brilliant crimson climber we have. Do you want a single crimson climbing Rose ? This is Hiawatha. The finest light pink is without doubt the Dorothy Perkins ; its clean foliage, dainty buds and abundance of bloom are highly ad- mired. Tausendschon, or Thousand Beauties, is surely another peerless pink; the individual flowers are large and stand out prominently in the trusses; the color, which is deep pink upon opening, changing later to white, is exquisite.

A large flowering variety, and one on which the flowers are produced profusely, is the Christine Wright. The blooms are in small clusters and are of a clear wild-rose pink. The plants are sometimes not great climbers, but they are effective, at least at the base of the pillar. The yellows are rather too tender to be really climbers. Aglaia, or the Yellow Rambler, is beautiful, being deep golden yellow in bud. The pretty glossy foliage of many of these .Roses has been derived from the Memorial Rose (R. Wichuraiana). It is very useful as a ground cover, being unexcelled for covering waste land, and trespassing upon steep banks can be successfully prevented by planting this Rose.