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small plants in 60 and 54- sized pots. Xow they are fine bushes, and 

 several would have reached the top of tlie house this season if allowed to 

 do so, or cnconragod witli the help of a few tics or v/ires. As to 

 the bloom, it has generally been superb. Most of them bloomed well the 

 last autumn, immediately after being planted out. Though I have 

 remarked that the house is wholly devoted to teas, I must here say that 

 is not strictly true. After the collection obtained for the house were 

 planted, there was just I'oom left for a pair of roses at one end. There 

 happened to be a pair of Souvenir do ilalmaison in full bloom in a part of 

 the rosery which it was intended to alter, and as these would have to be 

 moved some day or other, I put the fork under them on a bright day in 

 August, and had them planted in the house in less than halfanho\ir, 

 kept them sprinkled and shaded, and all the signs they gave of having 

 been moved was the shaking off of a few yellow leaves a week after. 

 They were shaded and frequently sprinkled, and they bloomed till Christ- 

 mas, and were the fii'st to bloom again this spring-, and they bloomed so 

 abundantly that they had to be most carefully tied up to lessen the strain 

 upon the branches of the enormous trusses produced. Since the hot 

 weather set in, these two Souvenirs have been touched with mildew, and 

 they have been potted and their places supplied with teas. These are 

 the only roses that have not succeeded to perfection in the house, but as 

 it Avas erected for teas only, I cannot charge them with wilful misbe- 

 haviour. As to the management, that consists principally of a daily 

 syringing and a weekly watering at the roots. They have not tasted 

 liquid manure yet, nor will they want it till next season. They are kept 

 in order by the use of the knife and occasional pinching in, and the dead 

 blooms are removed every day. 



There are ninety tea roses planted out in the borders, namely, forty- 

 five on each side, in three rows of fifteen each. In the front lines, being 

 weak growers, are Abrieote, Archimede, Auguste Vacher, Bride of Aby- 

 dos, Canary (a lovely rose in bud), Clara Silvain, Due de Magenta, Elise 

 Sauvage, JEnfant de Lyon, Josephine Malton, La Boule d'Or (a gem 

 among tea roses), Louise de Savoy, Devoniensis (comes finer under glass 

 than in the open air), Madame Blachet, Madame Falcot, Madame Hal- 

 phin, Madame Bravy, Mad;ime Lartay, Madame Pauline Labonte, Madame 

 "William, Mirabile, jS^ina, j^isida, President, Peine de Pays Bas, Souvenir 

 de David, Yicomtesse de Cazes, Semelc. Centre and hack roivs, Adam, 

 Amabilis, BeUe Chartronnaise, Belle de Bordeaux, Bougere, Buret, Comte 

 de Paris, Comtesse Ouvaroff, Comtesse de Woronzoff, Delphine Gaudot, 

 Eugene Desgaches, Gerard Desbois, Gloii-e de Bordeaux, Gloire de Dijon, 

 Goubault, Homer, Madame Damaizin, Madame de St, Joseph, Madame 

 Villermoz, Mareschal Bugeaud, Maiie de Medicis, Marquise Poucault, 

 Moiret, jN'arcisse, JS^iphetos, Ophelia, Eegulus, Safrano, Socrates, Som- 

 breuil, Souvenir d'Elise (the grandest of all tea roses, sometimes as large 

 as a breakfast- cup, and petals as thick as cardboard), Souvenir d'un Ami, 

 Triomphe de Guillot, Triomphe de Luxembourg. Some are repeated. 



In a larger house, I should take the vigorous growers up the rafters 

 and allow them to form festoons. Several of the Noisettes would serve 

 for the same purpose. Ophirie and Jaune Desprez would make magnifi- 

 cent climbers under glass. If it were only possible to build a lean-to, 

 then I should prefer the Paxtonian principle, and j)ut ^Noisettes and 

 Banksians on the back wall. But I would make this a fixed rule — to 



