October 27, 1868. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



327 



DUCHER. 



40. Benoit Comet, lively red, lighter in the centre. 



41. Le Mont d'Or, shaxied carmine red. 



M. Ducher is the raiser of Robert Fortune, Deuil de Prince 

 Albert, &o., but none of his Roses have taken a hijifh place 

 amongst us, and I therefore feel inclined to doubt their 

 excellence. 



DAMAISIN. 



42. Louise Damaisin, not very full, white; blooming in 



clusters. 



43. Madame Maeker, whit«, slightly tinged with blush. A 

 seedling of Mere de St. Louis. 



44. Marechal Suchet, rosy carmine ; lai-ge aijd fuU. 



45. Senateur Reveil, brilliant crimson red, shaded with 

 dark purple. 



M. Damaisin has given us some good Roses, and we may, 

 therefore, hope that one or two of the above may be good. 

 42 Seems too thin. 43, Mamma is no very great lady, and 

 I should, therefore, look rather to 44 and 45 as the best of 

 these ; the latter especially, if description is worth anything, 

 seems as if it would be worth grooving. 



LEVEQUE ET FILS. 



46. Madame Derreak DouvUle, tender rose, edge of petals 

 white. 



This is the only Rose that the raiser of that fine Rose, 

 Due de Rohan, has his name attached to this autumn ; but 

 I believe he sends out some others also. This hardly seems 

 as if it would add to his reputation much. 



LIABAUD. 



47. Ai-lt's Dufour, large and fuU, piuTple, shaded at the 

 centre with violet. 



48. Madame de Cairrobert, large and full ; white, slightly 

 tinged mth lilac. 



Neither of these have colours that are likely to take with 

 us, and I should not, therefore, consider them as likely to be 

 acquisitions. 



PORTEMEK FILS. 



49. Madame Soupert, very full, imbricated ; white, slightly 

 shaded with blush, passing to pure white. 



50. Pierre Netting, very full and globvdar; very dark 

 blackish-red, slightly shaded with violet. 



Portemer is so honest a man, and so good a judge, that I 

 should hope one if not both of these Roses would turn out 

 to be good. 50 I fear is of too dull a colour to suit us, unless 

 the description be intended to signify a different sort of 

 flower to what I imagine it to be. 



BOYAU. 



51. M.ademoiseUe Adele Lauuay, beautifvil rose ; blooming 

 freely in autumn. 



This sounds well, and as new flowers of a rose colour are 

 scarce, I sliould hope this may be au acquisition. 



GONOD. 



52. Vicomtesse Douglas, cupped ; beautiful rose, reverse 

 of petals silvery. 



This is another of those two-coloured Roses which I do 

 not think will ever be favourites with us. Since I wrote my 

 notes on Duchesse de Morny, I have received a plate of it 

 fi-om M. Eugene Verdier, and it does not certainly give one 

 very enticing notions of what it is likely to prove, or alter 

 my opinion that there ought to be no contrast between the 

 upper and under side of a Rose. 



FONTAINE PEEE. 



53. Souvenir de Marechal Serrurier, beautiful vivid red, 

 back of petals wliitish. The same remark applies to this 

 as to 52. 



I have now waded through these long lists, and given 

 my opinions such as they are, as I have gone along. Which, 

 then, are likely to be the best, the crCme de la crvme ? I 

 notice that M. Margottin admits besides his own into his 

 select list, only twenty Hybrid Pei^petuals. These are Abbe 

 Reynaud, Alpaide de Rotalier, Alphonse Belin, Amiral La 

 Peyrouse, Baronne PeUetan de Kinkolin, Eugene Verdier, 

 George Paul, George Prince, La Duchesse de Morny, 

 Leopold I. Eoi des Beiges, Louis Van Houtte, Louise Da- 

 maisin, Madame Soupert, Madame Victor Verdier, Madame 

 Gabriel de Peyronney, Marechal Suchet, Pavilion de Pregny, 

 Paul d<! la MeUleray, Pierre Nottiog, Senateur Eeveil, 



Souvenir de Marechal Serrurier, Triomphe de ViUecresnes, 

 and Vicomtesse Douglas. I could still farther reduce this 

 list, and look for the best amongst the following :— In 

 Bourbons : Madame ClotOde Perrault, and Reverend H. 

 Dombrain. In Hybrid Perpetuals : Alpaide de Rotalier, 

 Triomphe de VOlecresnes, Bernai-d Palissy, Marechal Forey, 

 George Paul, Pavilion de Pregny, Amiral La Peyrouse, 

 Baronne PeUetan de Kinkelin, Madame Gabriel de Peyron^ 

 ney, Senateur Reveil, and Madame Soupert. Time alone 

 can tell how far wrong one is. And now a word as to Teas, 

 of these there are three. 



Jaune d'Or (Oger), globular, fuU ; golden yellow. 



Lays (Damaisin), sulphm- yellow. 



Souvenir de Madame Eugenie Pernet (Pemet & Co.), 

 blush, shaded with rose and salmon yellow ; very hardy. 



AU these succeed very well, especially the last. We may 

 hope that this interesting class may receive the same good 

 additions this season. There has not been much advance in 

 it these last few years, and it wUl ever be a favourite class 

 especiaUy with ladies. — D., Deal. 



TEENTHAM. 



This magnificent residence of his Grace the Duke of 

 Sutherland, is situated about a mile from the station of 

 Trentham, and about three mUes from that of Stoke, farther 

 north on the North Staffordshire Railway; and close to, 

 almost forming a part of the latter station, is a large, com- 

 modious, comfortable hotel, a matter of importance to those 

 that may arrive late for the purpose of seeing Trentham on 

 the foUowing day. It is just a nice walk from Trentham station 

 to the garden, and the visitor wiU be pleased to note several 

 picturesque cottages with theu- flower gardens, and summer 

 creepers mantling the waUs, as he passes along. 



Trentham might weU be denominated " The LUy of the 

 Valley," the buUding and demesne showing, in their simplest 

 detaUs, the refined taste of the Dowager Duchess, and the 

 architectural and artistic touches of a Barry. The gorgeous 

 mansion is placed on low level ground, not far from the rise 

 of the Trent, the banks of whose waters wiU ever be classic 

 earth so long as the sweet though melancholy odes of Kirke 

 White hold their appropriate place in EngUsh hearts. The 

 mansion is backed on the west or entrance-front by a bold 

 undulating park, terminating in the heights by the massive 

 Henchurch Woods. The park itself was clothed with 

 groups of deciduous trees, relieved by masses of lofty Scotch 

 Firs, and enlivened by deer and cattle up to theu' knees in 

 herbage, the grass seeming a stranger to the great drought 

 from which our pastures suffered further south ; and it was 

 enUvened stUl more by the companies of weU-di-essed people 

 who have next to free access to that part of the demesne. 

 The mansion is backed on the north by the necessai-y ofiices, 

 and on the east by plantations and shrubberies, which 

 thoroughly conceal the kitchen gardens and forcing grounds, 

 though close at hand, and which are reached by an iion bridge 

 and a feiTy boat over the river. It is fronted on the south 

 by a series of ItaUan gardens on different levels, occupying 

 a space, we should judge, of about a dozen acres, and these 

 are fronted again by a "beautiful irregular picturesque lake 

 of eighty-four acres in extent, and reUeved by several islands. 

 This lake is bounded on the east or garden side by a con- 

 tinuation of massive lawns and shrubberies, marked by great 

 diversity of outline and of planting, the kept gi-ounds ex- 

 tending to somewhere about eighty acres, one place showing 

 the careful hand of the artist, and another as plainly reveal- 

 ing superior taste, in aUowing flowers, and shrubs, and trees 

 to contend on the principle of "natural selection" as to 

 which shaU gain the superiority. We have often seen Cle- 

 matis and Honeysuckle hanging in such elegant festoons 

 from trees on the sides of the roadway, that it would be a 

 very diflieult affah- for the finest art to imitate them in their 

 gracefulness. The lake, again, is bounded on the west by 

 what I have always considered the chief glory in a natural 

 point of view of Trentham— namely, a fine Oak wood rising 

 tier above tier Uke the steps of a colossal amphitheatre, that 

 amphitheatre of wood, but more vaiied in foUage, seemingly 

 closing in the south side of the lake. On a high crest of 

 this wood, to the south is placed a fine statue of the 

 grandfather of the present Duke, after Sir P. Chantrey, 



