148 ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS 



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 green- 

 house 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. 



