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men Hollies. And this shining pink vista 

 carried the enchanted eye on to the sombre 

 mass of the northern facade of the great house, 

 with its curious mixture of Dutch step-gables 

 and Jacobean windows, and its wealth of me- 

 mories, political and intellectual. On closely 

 examining these surprising specimens of Caro- 

 line Testout, they disproved once for all the 

 fallacy that to make Roses grow in London 

 they must be renewed every two years at 

 least ; for I found they were old-established 

 plants, which had been pegged down so as 

 completely to cover the ground, and that they 

 were throwing up strong flowering shoots from 

 every joint. Whether as a dwarf or as a 

 standard, Caroline Testout is indeed a treasure. 



Among the China-pinks, Madame Jules 

 Grolez easily takes first rank as a bedding Rose 

 which cannot be too highly praised for colour 

 and persistent blooming. But the lovely Belle 

 Siebrecht, better known in England as Mrs. W. 

 J. Grant, and largely grown under glass for the 

 London market, runs her very close, for it is 

 hard to choose between such beauties ; while 



