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had been planted with all the leading kinds, and that many seedlings had been 

 planted out for trial. Mulching and due attention to watering was developing a 

 fine growth, full of promise of rich heads of flower. 



But who can do justice to the priceless treasures of the rich collections of 

 Roses grown here 1 We saw them in the fulness of their splendid blossoms ; 

 and how these flowers have been developed at the Cheshunt Nurseries during the 

 present summer let the exhibition-tables at the leading Rose-shows testify. 

 There was acre after acre of Roses, of almost every imaginable hue of colour, 

 spi-ead out before the beholder. 



" The imperishable glow 

 Of summer sunshine never more confessed 

 The harmony of nature, the divine 

 Diffusive spirit of the beautiful." 



Whether or no Mr George Paul be one of those cultivators of the Rose who 

 grow it for exhibition, and as was sought to be not very good-naturedly implied 

 not long since, to the deterioration of the plant in regard to its fitness for 

 sale, certain it is that, judging from the quality of the many thousand standard 

 and dwarf Roses to be found here, no purchaser need fear as to the nature of 

 the article to be supplied by-and-by. We should have every confidence in the 

 Roses supplied from Cheshunt, even though Mr Paul is an exhibitor, and a very 

 successful one too. 



Descriptive notes of some of the new Roses of last year, as taken on the occa- 

 sion of our visit, cannot fail to have an interest for our readers. We had not an 

 opportunity of seeing all the new varieties of 1869, but the following were some 

 of the best of them : — Hybrid Perpetuals — Abbe Giraudier, a darker and finer 

 form of the old Lcelia, and a seedling from it, flowers large, full, and of fine 

 form ; Candide, a white Victor Verdier, very pretty indeed, and promising to be 

 a fine forcing Rose ; Charles Turner, bright glossy red, a fine hue of colour, but 

 the flowers somewhat shallow in the build ; Comtesse de Oxford, a cherry-crimson 

 coloured Victor Verdier, but of better shape ; Jules Seurre, a Victor- Verdier 

 type of flower with the colour of Anna Alexieff, of fine shape and capital habit ; 

 Louis Van Houtte, a high-coloured shaded rose, very fine indeed as a bud, a 

 flower in the way of Louis XIV., but with better growth : Madame Laurent, an 

 improved Madame Therese Levet, but with more colour in it, a fine hue of deep 

 cherry-rose ; Madlle. Eugenie Verdier, a very good Rose, and very fine as a bud, 

 colour deep-flesh : Marquis de Castellane, a rose-coloured Baroness A. de Roth- 

 schild, having the fine build, globular form, and fulness of this fine Rose, but with 

 the addition of a fine depth of colour — one of the best of the new Roses ; Paul 

 Neron, a fine Rose in the way of Gloire de Vitry, of excellent habits and very 

 free ; and Reine des Beautes, like Candide, a white Victor Verdier, moi*e globu- 

 lar in shape, and rather paler in colour also. Noisette, Reve d'Or, a climbing 

 Madame Falcot, but fuller, and with more freedom of bloom ; Tea-scented 

 Madame Ducher, one of the fine seedlings raised from Gloire de Dijon ; this is in 

 the way of Devoniensis, but with the build of Triomphe de Rennes ; and Tour 

 Bertrand, another seedling from Gloire de Dijon, of fine shape, and finely col- 

 oured in the centre. 



Many of the new Roses of 1868 were in bloom, and gave us an opportunity of 

 further testing their qualities. The following Hybrid Perpetuals were of fine 

 quality : Bertha Baron, beautiful light rose, a free blooming variety, and good 

 flower; Devienne Larny, deep reddish carmine, very fine and full, in the way of 

 Madame Victor Verdier, but more globular in shape ; Dupuy Jamain, bright 



