rooted out wholesale where it was too strong; 

 but this seems to have done it no harm and it has 

 sprung up again everywhere in fresher vigor than 

 before. A lot of it has been planted among laurels 

 in a newer shrubbery, where it seems to have 

 established itself well. It is a most beautiful 

 object and goes on adorning the somber shrubs 

 with its brilliant red blooms, which continue to 

 succeed one another longer than any other rose in , 

 the garden, being usually continuously covered 

 with flowers the whole of July and part of August. 

 At the end of January many of the roses got 

 their leaves entirely shriveled up, as if they had 

 been burnt, from a northeast gale, which lasted 

 three days and nights, and I felt glad I had pro- 

 tected the necks of the recently planted ones, 

 which might otherwise have succumbed. As it 

 turned out, I only lost one, a Duchesse de Caylus, 

 and all the rest have flourished and flowered well. 

 A Marechal Niel on a south porch was in bud in 

 April. In addition to those already mentioned, I 

 must especially also record the beauty of Maman 

 Cochet, Moire, Baroness Rothschild, Duchess of 

 Albany, and Duke of Wellington. 

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