I had this rose once, when Fred Meyers (now Kroger) used to use their parking lots to sell about 200 7G rose plants in full bloom. I think through Weeks. Now they sell a handful of bareroots in March, and another handful of small pots on Mother's Day. Huge difference.

Anyway, I had it for 2 years. Smells wonderful. Loved blackspot, hence its quick exit from my garden. I vaguely recall it being messy.

American Rose Magazine 6(4): 117-118 (Jan-Feb 1945)
A Real Everblooming Climber
Kent E Keller, Ava, Illinois

Illinois is so well known as a "Northern State" that I think it will come as a surprise to many to learn that my little city of Ava is in a latitude a few miles south of the Capitol dome at Washington, and that Cairo, at the southern tip of the state, is in about the same latitude as Richmond, Va., even a few miles south of that city. Even the large magnolias thrive in Cairo.

But the one plant which has tempted me to write is a real everblooming climber, Dr. J. H. Nicolas. I bought the plant three or four years ago. It absolutely refused to climb, though it bloomed beautifully and continuously the entire season. It was a good bush rose, but not a climber. Then I pruned it to one main branch, gave it abundant dairy manure, and it started to climb. It got up to 6 feet last year and continued to bloom as before. This spring it began to spread and climbed up to 10 feet and so I must raise the trellis.

But since I am writing about Dr. Nicolas, I must say that there have been more than 500 perfect blooms on that climber, eighty-nine at one time by count. At no time until the last few days of cooling weather has there been less than a dozen fine, beautiful, pink, fragrant roses.

I have another Dr. Nicolas which is a fine rose hush, blooming constantly all summer but refusing to climb. I am pruning it to one branch, resetting it and applying the same sort of dairy manure, and am betting I make it climb also.

Now the one that I flogged into climbing has been a summer-long joy. The buds usually come in sprays of three to five, though there are a number of individual blooms on long stems. They open slowly, last long, are fragrant, large, and a very lively pink color. They keep well when cut, but they are most beautiful on the stems high in the air. Dr. Nicolas is one real everblooming climber.