Chapter 22 (extract 5) of "Roses for English Gardens" by Jekyll and Mawley (1902), in which Mr Mawley suggests that climbing roses are planted outside the glasshouse and vigorous shoots are then led in through openings.
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Illustration: Climbing rose Marechal Niel under glass (from Foster-Melliar "The Book of the Rose", 1894).
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Climbing Roses under Glass.—Nothing has been before said about climbing Roses. They are unsuitable for any house specially devoted to Roses, because they shut out so much of that sunlight from the other Roses which is so needful for their welfare throughout the winter and early spring months.
These rampant varieties should therefore be grown in other houses where their presence will be less objectionable. Climbing Roses, whether dwarf plants or on standards, are best planted outside the greenhouse in a well-cultivated and manured border and their leading shoots brought into it and trained up the roof. They should be pruned after they have flowered, and each year a good deal of the older wood removed in order to make room for the shoots which will be formed during the current year, and thus enable them to become well ripened before the winter sets in. As a protection against injury from frost, hay-bands may with advantage be wound round the stocks of the standards outside the house early in December, and some bracken or other dry and light material placed over the exposed portion of the dwarf plants.
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