66 THE ROSE GARDENS OF HERTFORDSHIRE. 



Barbot, and Elise Sauvage claimed attention, no less 

 for their bewitching beauty than for their delicious 

 fragrance. There were also fine standards of Bourbons: 

 Paul Joseph (growing very vigorously), Bouquet de Flore, 

 Madame Tripet, and Cornice de Seine et Marne. Hybrid 

 Perpetuals: De Neuilly, Dr Marx, Due d'Aumale, Rivers, 

 and Prudence Raeser. From here we proceed to the 

 American garden, which is a circle surrounded with trees. 

 There are five beds of American plants, and standard 

 Roses are planted round the outside, some of which were 

 suffering from their proximity to the large trees. There 

 were fine specimens of Hybrid Perpetual: La Reine. 

 Chinese: Eugene Beauharnais. Tea-Scented: Clara, 

 Niphetos, and Madame de St Joseph. A few steps 

 more brought us to the shrubbery, and thence we passed 

 to the lawn facing the house. The lawn slopes gently to 

 the park, where the ground rises again, shewing a wood of 

 beech trees on the right hand, and elegant groups of oak 

 trees in the distance. On the lawn are various clumps of 

 evergreens, their outline prettily broken and surrounded 

 with flowering plants arranged with discrimination and 

 taste. Interspersed are single specimens of ornamental 

 trees, rustic baskets filled with flowers, and, what is of 

 chief interest to us, four circular clumps of Roses. One 

 is composed of dwarf-standard Autumnals exclusively, 

 and the ground beneath is planted with mignonette and 

 cloves. There is also a clump of dwarfs on their own 

 roots. These clumps are planted with the best and most 

 popular sorts, which it is needless to specify. The 

 situation is much exposed, but nothing could be in better 

 health or bloom. Among such a crowd of interesting 

 objects there is a danger of overlooking some ; but a 

 standard of Leopoldine d'Orleans, standing alone on the 

 lawn, must not escape notice. It was trained as a 

 Weeping Rose, and formed a beautiful single tree. We 

 now entered the French garden in search of the last 

 group of Roses, and a gay and varied scene it presented. 



