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quently been made for them. On the right-hand side of 

 the walk we are now traversing is a bed of mixed Roses 

 five plants deep, at the back of which a wire fence separates 

 the garden from the park. Over the walk are arches of 

 Bourbon Roses, principally Gloire des Rosomanes and 

 Madame Desprez. Higher up is a bank of the original 

 Bourbon Rose, and another of the Copper and Yellow 

 Austrian, intertwined with honeysuckles. On the top of 

 the banks a row of Scotch Laburnums is planted on either 

 side of the walk, the effect of which in the flowering season 

 must be very good. Having reached the summit of the 

 hill, we meet with another border of Roses five rows deep, 

 containing the best modern kinds. Behind them is a belt 

 of Spruce Firs planted for shelter, and a row of Abies 

 deodara. From this spot is a pretty view of the valley 

 below, and a rising hill beyond, the village church pre- 

 senting a most interesting object. Descending over the 

 lawn, which is planted with single specimens of Coniferae, 

 we pass a handsome Pinus patula eight feet high, which 

 has stood eight winters unprotected, a handsome Crypto- 

 meria japonica five feet high, and a nice clump of Yews. 

 Various flower-beds, filled with the usual bedding-plants, 

 surround the house. Returning to the entrance we crossed 

 the road to the kitchen-garden, where we found Leopoldine 

 d'Orleans and Madame d'Arblay, both light Roses, in 

 magnificent bloom, covering an immense apple tree twelve 

 feet high, which they had almost destroyed. The Bishop's 

 Provence, Tricolor, Triomphe de Rennes, and the Globe 

 Hip, were also flowering prettily here. It was said the 

 Cloth of Gold bloomed well as a standard, planted on the 

 west border of a greenhouse. On a south border of the 

 kitchen-garden some Autumnal Roses are planted, over 

 which frames are placed in winter and spring, by which 

 means flowers are obtained some weeks before those 

 wholly exposed are in bloom. Against a south wall a 

 collection of dwarf-standard Tea-Scented Roses are placed 

 between the fruit-trees, and they were doing well. But 



