THE ROSE GARDENS OF HERTFORDSHIRE. 51 



Moiret, and Elise Sauvage. Bourbon : Souvenir de la 

 Malmaison (two plants with 100 flowers each), Acidalia. 

 Austrian: Persian Yellow. Alba: Sophie de Marsilly. 



THEOBALD'S SQUARE. Proprietor,}. M. BRITTEN, 

 Esq. Gardener, Mr MELADY. This place is about a mile 

 from the Waltham Cross Station of the Great Eastern 

 Railway. The spot is rendered interesting from historic 

 associations. Theobalds was formerly the residence of 

 royalty ; and from here Charles I. departed to place him- 

 self at the head of his army to oppose the troops of the 

 Parliamentarians. Earlier in history the famous Lord 

 Burleigh had a seat at Theobalds. The garden now under 

 consideration is not very extensive, but it is well and 

 neatly kept, and doubtless affords the proprietor more real 

 pleasure, and proves far more interesting to the stranger, 

 than some places of many acres. There is no Rosetum 

 here ; the plants are disposed in clumps and rows through- 

 out the garden. On the west front of the house is a trellis, 

 over which are trained Leopoldine d'Orleans (Semper- 

 virens), Ayrshire Queen, Fellenberg (Noisette), and Gloire 

 des Rosomanes. The pillars supporting the entrance are 

 covered with Ruga and Splendens, both light coloured 

 Ayrshire Roses. A walk, about 100 yards in length, leads 

 from this front of the house to a lake, on whose surface 

 floated a profusion of Water Lilies (Nymphaea alba), which, 

 gleaming from afar, presented a most lovely spectacle. On 

 either side the walk is lawn-ground planted with beds of 

 hardy evergreens and single specimens of ornamental trees, 

 interspersed with clumps of Roses, Geraniums, and other 

 summer-flowering plants. In the beds by the sides of the 

 walk we notice the following Roses Hybrid Chinese, &c. : 

 Chenedole, Charles Duval, and Coupe d'He'be'. Noisette: 

 Lamarque, Euphrosyne. Tea-Scented: Niphetos, Jaune, 

 Devoniensis, Goubault, and Cels multiflora. Bourbon : 

 Paul Joseph, Queen. Hybrid Perpetual : La Reine, Comte 

 d'Eu. Alba: Madame Legras, Princesse Lamballe. Hybrid 



