The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-23
The Rose in the sOutI,-CIimbing Va
riPfiPR.

The Rose in the SOuth-Climbing Va
rieties.
There are climbing roses and climbing
roses. Some of them are unsuited to
Southern gardens, from their great free
dom of growth and short period of bloom.
Others are, above all flowers, the most
beautifully appropriate. Especially grace
full and lovely are the ever-blooming MOI
settles, Climbing Tea Roses, says Mrs.
George brennan, in How to Grow Flow
ers.
This Incompatible strain of roses owes
its origin to the Noisette Brothers of
Charleston, S. C. They came to Charles
ton in 1860 from France, where they had
been gardeners and rosarians. BY hybrid
izing a hardy Manettia Rose, which is of
running habit, with an ever blooming
Tea, or, as some accounts say, China or
Bengal rose. in 1915, they produced the first
Noisette, which was called Rosa Mus
chata. The cuttings from Rosa Muschata
We're sent to Paris 10 a third brother, who
skillfully manipulated them, and by con-
tinued hybridizing produced other fine
roses, which, as class, were called Moi
settles.
Glo.re de Dion is one of the oldest, and
to this day one of the most popular roses
of the class 1t is marked with every char
acterisuc of the Tea Rose. The shining
bright green foliage, exquisite fragrance
and indeseribably beautiful blending of
yellow and pink, cream and peach, that
form the apricot or salmon of the common
descriptions of this wonderful old rose. are
all of Tea origin while its great strength
and climbing capacity, together with its
remarkable longevity, are of the hardy
Manettia stock. Gloire de Dion is the pa
rent OF more fine roses of climbing habit
than any other rose.
1t is enough to say of any new rose that
1t is of the Gloire de Dion type. The
pfinclple dlHerence in them all is the color
Shapes and sizes differ somewhat too. but
all are handsome. Wherein they suit the
gardens of the South so admirably is that
they are continuous boomers. beginning
early and booming late in the season: :
that, though very free in climbing habit
they are not of coarse or heavy growth.
and that their beauty of foliage and flow
ers might tax a Ruskin to describe, or a
Longpre to paint Close pruning, as re-
sorted to with Hybrid Teas, Remontants.
and even with some of the strongest grow
ers among the Teas, is not necessary with
the climbing everbloomers. Perfection of
form and gigantic size, as with other
specimen roses, is not the desired end with
them. The great profusion of flowers they
produce, on long, graceful branches, that
drape, frescO and crown second-storv
fronts pillars, arcades, trellisee and espal-
iers, through the spring, summer and au-
tumn months, is compensation for the lib
eral culture they require. The blooms will
in many cases, be perfect but the white.
pink, red and yellow masses form the per
feet symphony, without the analysis of
each single flower.
MareChal Neil is one instance Of s1parb
roses of climbing habit; Lamarque Is an
ether They bloom in heavy clusters on
long. clean stems, and yards and yards of
rose vines will have these buds and blooms
from the axis of every leaf The finest
blooms, however will always be on me
terminus Of the branches Neither Mare
chal Nell nor Lamarque is as true a daily
bloomer as many others of the class. They
begin early and bloom late IL is true. but
81 is in crops" with barren weeks be-
tween.
Gloire de Dion, Refine Marie Henriettea
(Which is, above all other red roses the
rose Of roses for southern gardensO, WI