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they were found correct. The plant was "cut up for cutttings, and I 

 had the pleasure of putting in the first of them in the Exeter nursery. 

 I, however, left a few clays after that, to go as foreman to Mr. Duns- 

 ford, then gardener to Baron Dimsdale, in Hertfordshire, and I heard 

 no more of the Rose, till I saw by the papers that it had been exhibited 

 at one of the horticultural meetings in Regent Street, under the name 

 of Devoniensis. 



•Now, as regards the origin of this Rose, I was given to understand 

 at the time, that as Mr. Fqster, who was a retired naval officer, was 

 passing through the market one day, he became enamoured with a Rose 

 in a small pot, and carried it home, and put it in his window. After 

 the flower had dropped, a seed pod succeeded it, which ripened in the 

 window, and for curiosity it was sown under the window, and that was 

 the seedling plant which I saw, for it was growing under a window. 

 As it is now 19 years since this occurred, and as I have stated before I 

 write from memory alone, should there be any inaccuracies ; and if this 

 should meet the eye of Mr. Pince, no doubt that gentleman will most 

 readily put me right. This, therefore, 1 trust will prove to the readers 

 of the Florist that Rosa Devoniensis is a true English Rose. 



William Richard Willcocks, 



Gardener to John Murray Aynsleg, Esq., Underdown, 

 Ledbury, Herefordshire. 



CADLANDS, THE SEAT OF MR. DRUMMOND. 



Some account of what the difference of climate can do for plants may 

 perhaps not be uninteresting to your readers. Cadlands is pleasantly 

 situate on one of the many undulating hills on the west shore of South- 

 ampton Bay. Entering by a lodge from the New Forest, some two 

 miles from the house, the drive leads through plantations of Firs, 

 Holly, evergreen Oak, and some fine old trees in the open places, and 

 terminates at the south side of the house, which is the chief entrance ; 

 from the portico is a fine view of the Isle of Wight, through a vista 

 of trees, commencing with large Cedars of Lebanon on each side. 



The house is a large plain structure of white brick, with Portland 

 stone corners ; and thence, entering from this front, we come to the 

 east and north, the latter being the main or principal flower garden 

 front. At the east side the house is surrounded by broad gravel walks, 

 and from this, all round the two fronts, are beautiful views across the 

 bay, Southampton, in the distance, looking bright with the setting sun, 

 and the bay between covered with numerous steamers, yachts, and 

 smaller craft of all descriptions, their white sails glittering in the sun, 

 and their movements adding life and interest to the view ; further up 

 the shore is Netley Abbey, nestling among the trees, the Royal 

 Military Hospital, and the shore as far as the eye can reach, is studded 

 with fine villas and trees. Every care has evidently been bestowed upon 



