Chapter 7 (extract 3) of "Roses for English Gardens" by Jekyll and Mawley (1902), in which Miss Jekyll evinces dislike of the umbrella method of rose training.
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Illustration: Dundee rambler umbrella trained
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This thick form of pillar leads to the Rose umbrella, a way of training a free-growing standard that, though its evident elaboration of support does not commend it to people of simple taste, yet certainly does produce a wonderful show of bloom. But the iron frame, if of any size, has to be guyed all round by stiffly strained wires, and these have to be fixed to stumps driven into the ground, and some of us feel that a way of growing that entails the necessity of employing such complicated machinery of support is out of harmony with the Rose sentiment and damping to Rose fervour.
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