180 HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



Dutch Hundred-leaved Rose, is regarded as belonging to the 

 Rosa Galllca ; another is our common Cabbage-rose, a third 

 what we style the Dutch Provins, and these last are consi- 

 dered, by Mr Lindley, as having sprung from R. centifolia. 

 A friend who visited the place has informed us, that the 

 flowers are sent annually in great quantities to Amsterdam, 

 and that they are thence exported even to Constantinople, 

 where they are used by the Turks for making rose-water. 

 There are three extensive rose cultivators at Noordwyck ; 

 but the most distinguished is Mr Cornells Stegerhoek, who 

 has, during the greater part of a long life, been engaged in 

 this pleasing branch of rural economy? — reminding one of 

 the Garden of Roses and its owner, described in the Teu- 

 tonic poetry of the Middle Ages : 



" For two and thirty years he has graithed a spacious mead, 

 And a garden fair has planted all with the roses red *." 



Mr Stegerhoek has in his time raised many seedling rose- 

 trees, and has selected from among them several which were 

 remarkable for the variegation, beauty, or fulness of the 

 flowers. These he at different times communicated to 

 Messrs Leo and Kennedy of Hammersmith. One of his 

 latest and finest varieties he has named Rose de la Belle 

 Alliance, — a name more likely to be attractive at London 

 than at Paris. 



The principal tree nursery-grounds of ICreps and Com- 

 pany are situate on the other side of the Haarlem Meer ; 

 but they have a collection of fruit and forest-trees, at a 

 short distance from town, and one of the partners obliging- 

 ly offered to conduct us thither the next day. In their 

 bloemistiy, however, we saw several fine plants, both in 

 pota and in the open border, of an extremely dwarfish va- 



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