A PLEA FOR SUMMER ROSES. 45 



perfect symmetry of form so strikingly displayed in Coupe 

 d'Hebe, we shall find that although this Rose "has but a 

 summer's reign," it will live in our remembrance when 

 numbers of the longer blooming ones are faded and 

 forgotten. We cannot surely dispense with the Persian 

 Yellow, the double Yellow Briar, or Harrisonii. Yet these 

 are Summer Roses. The only objection urged against 

 them is the transitoriness of their flowers. But they are 

 perfect of their kind, and till we have the like or superior, 

 blooming for a more extended period, they must find place 

 in every Rose garden. 



It is then, I think, but just and fair for Rose cultivators 

 to consider whether the disregard with which they treat 

 this one great compartment Summer Roses is merited, 

 whether by excluding or neglecting such they will not 

 materially lessen the beauty of their gardens. If it be so, 

 then their presence and beauty will be secured. 



MORNING RAMBLES IN THE ROSE GARDENS 

 OF HERTFORDSHIRE. 



[This was a pamphlet published in November 1849. As it is nearly 

 out of print and will not be republished I have ventured to intro- 

 duce it herel\ 



T3ROXBOURNEBURY. Proprietor, G. J. BOSAN- 

 1J QUET, Esq. Gardener, Mr FULLER. Broxbourne- 

 bury is about a mile from the Broxbourne station of the 

 Great Eastern Railway. Approaching it from the south- 

 east side of Hertfordshire we quit the high road to Ware 

 and Cambridge at the little village of Wormley. Crossing 

 the New River we pass through an avenue of oak trees, the 

 branches so intertwined as to completely over-arch the 

 road, forming a beautiful arcade about 500 yards in length. 



