62 THE ROSE GARDENS OF HERTFORDSHIRE. 



this notice is already far extended, and we must conclude 

 with a glance at the conservatory. On the outside of this 

 structure Tea-Scented Roses are grown, and trained against 

 the walls. In the interior is a specimen of Noisette 

 Lamarque budded close to the ground, which had risen 

 with a single stem twelve feet high and about an inch in 

 diameter ; it had formed an immense spreading umbrella- 

 shaped head, the branches drooping most gracefully. 

 There was also a plant of the lovely Tea-Scented Bougere, 

 nearly its equal in height and size, and both are said to 

 yield flowers all through the winter months. There were 

 two plants of the Fuchsia corymbiflora, and one Fuchsia 

 Thomsonii, trained on a similar plan, and they were 

 exceedingly handsome. Beyond these the conservatory 

 was filled with various flowering plants, of which however 

 it 'is not our particular purpose to speak. The whole of 

 the Roses here are freely exposed to wind and sun, yet 

 they grow and bloom magnificently, and seldom have 

 we seen plants freer from insects of every kind. The 

 Autumnals receive a top-dressing of manure in June in 

 addition to the annual supply, an excellent plan which 

 ought to be more generally put in practice. This is one 

 of the oldest Rose gardens in the county, and is still one 

 of the best, and to this more than to any other do we 

 attribute the spread of that taste which has rendered 

 Hertfordshire so renowned for its Roses. The soil here is 

 naturally most unfavourable, the chalk lying close to the 

 surface, and in every instance where Roses have been 

 planted the chalk has been removed to some depth and 

 its place occupied with a mixture of loam and manure. 



HAILEYBURY COLLEGE, HERTFORD 

 HEATH. The Rev. RICHARD JONES. -Gardener, Mr 

 COWELL. The principal collection of Roses here consists 

 of standards and dwarf-standards, planted four plants deep 

 to form a Rose-bank. At the back are arches on which 

 we noticed Gloire des Rosomanes, which had made shoots 



