THE ROSE GARDENS OF HERTFORDSHIRE. 63 



seven feet long this year, Ruga (Ayrshire), Conspicua, 



Henri Barbet (Hybrid Chinese), Lamarque, Jaime Desprez 



(Noisettes). Among the kinds forming the bank, La 



Volupte, Kean (French), Prince Albert (Hybrid Perpetual), 



Queen of Denmark, Sophie de Marsilly (Alba), Paul 



Perras (Hybrid Bourbon), were the most conspicuous. 



There were also several very fine specimens of the Crested 



Provence. On a border with a western aspect in the 



kitchen-garden we noticed Persian Yellow (Austrian), 



Requien, Minerva, Grande et Belle, Bernard, La Reine, 



Madame Laffay, Stanwell (Perpetuals), Aspasie, Boula de 



Nanteuil (French), Riego, Camuzet carnee, Coupe d'He"be, 



Great Western, Fimbriata (Hybrid Chinese, &c.), Madame 



Angelina, Dupetit Thouars (Bourbons), Emerance (Hybrid 



Provence), Comte de Paris (Tea-Scented). Maria Leonida 



was planted as an edging to one of the beds, and under 



the treatment here subjected to has a very pretty effect. 



The shoots are pegged down in spring and clipped in 



June, this keeps the plant dwarf, and it produces a mass 



of its beautiful white flowers in the autumn months. 



Being evergreen, and possessed of fine, large, glossy 



foliage, it must become a great favourite if cultivated in 



this manner. It is doubtless well known that under 



ordinary circumstances the flowers do not expand freely, 



but the pegging down and clipping which it undergoes 



entirely cures it of this bad habit. On the east border 



of the kitchen-garden the various families are planted 



separately in beds, the divisions being marked out with 



the Maria Leonida. The most striking plants here were 



Hybrid Chinese, &c.; Velours episcopal, Chnedole", Jenny, 



and Charles Foucquier. Hybrid Provence: Princesse 



Clementine, and La Calaisienne. Moss: Perpetual 



Mauget, Presque partout, Catherine de Wurtemberg. 



Damask : Ferox. The Crimson Perpetual invariably fails 



here. On the front of the house a plant of the old Red 



Moss had climbed about twelve feet high, and was 



covered with its beautiful blossoms. There were beds of 



