The Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing

The book that taught America to grow roses out of doors: how to site and prepare a bed, how to prune and propagate, and a rated list of the best varieties with the faults of each set down honestly.

Climbers

10 pages in this part of Outdoor Rose Growing.

Christine Wright

scattered that they cannot be called continually blooming roses. They need special protection here, but should do better farther south. In…

Christine Wright: Hybrid

CHRISTINE WRIGHT. Hoopes Bros. and Thomas, of West Chester, Pa., 1903. Cross between Caroline Testout and a Wichuraiana seedling. Placed…

Christine Wright: Requires

CLIMBING KAISERIN AUGUSTA VICTORIA. Hybrid Tea; two firms claim introduction; 1897. Primrose, of same form and color as the dwarf rose of…

Christine Wright: Polyantha

The breeding of this entire class is considerably involved, and different authorities and catalogues list the roses variously as Hybrid…

Christine Wright: Trusses

DOROTHY PERKINS. Hybrid Wichuraiana. Perkins, 1902. Trusses, single, light pink. Foliage lost quite early.

Tausendschon, as Grown in Connecticut

Photograph by courtesy of A. N. Pierson, Incorporated JEAN GIRIN. Hybrid Wichuraiana. Description given by Admiral Ward, as grown on Long…

Winter Cheer

Blush, with yellow shading.

Planting Climbers

In planting climbers the bed should be prepared in exactly the same way as for an ordinary bed, excepting that it should be much smaller…

Hybrid Wichuraianas and Hybrid Poly-

About the last of July or the first of August, when the blooming season is over, it is well to cut out some of the oldest and weakest…

Hybrid Wichuraianas and Hybrid Poly-: Wichuraiana

Under no circumstances should the canes remain uncut on any imported climbers of winter or early spring planting, and the course above…

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