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cut nty finest exhibition blooms. The soil of the rose-beds at 

 Croydon consisted almost entirely of yellow fibrous loam im- 

 ported for the purpose, the subsoil being of a very porous 

 sandy nature. 



When starting a new rose garden at Berkhamsted, I thought 

 it would be interesting if I took advantage of the opportunity to 

 test systematically the relative merits of the Manetti, seedling- 

 briar, and briar-cutting as stocks. For this purpose I had beds 

 dug across a small piece of grass land adjoining the house 

 sufficiently wide to hold two rows of plants. This new rose 

 garden faces nearly due south and is on a steep slope, the 

 gradient being about one in seven. The surface soil was found to 

 consist of clayey loam and large flints about a foot in thickness ; 

 beneath this came a hard pan of clay and flints of about the 

 same depth, which, in making the beds, was broken up. The 

 subsoil is pure chalk. In these beds the varieties of Hybrid 

 Perpetuals selected were thus arranged. First came four plants 

 of one sort on the briar-cutting, then four of the same kind on 

 the Manetti, and lastly, four plants on the seedling-briar, this 

 order being maintained throughout the collection. 



The following table shows the relative positions of each of the 

 thirty-four varieties in these experimental beds five years after 

 planting. 





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Name of Variety. 







a 



Xame of Variety. 







o 

 e 





I — 



O 







7. ~ 







Abel Cam ere . . . . 



1 



2 



3 



Francois Michelon . . . 



2 





3 



Alfred Colorab . . . . 



1 



2 



3 



Horace Yernet . . . . 



1 



3 



2 





1 



2 



3 



La France 



2 



1 



3 



Baroness Rothschild . . 





2 



3 



Louis Van Houtte . . . 



1 



2 



3 



Beauty of Waltham . . 



\ 



1 



3 



Madame Gabriel Luizet . 



2 



1 



3 



Camille Bernardin . . 



3 



1 



2 



Madame Lacharnie . 



1 



2 



3 



Captain Christy . . . 



1 



2 



3 



Madame Victor Verdier . 



1 



2 



3 



Charles Lefebvre . . . 



1 



2 



3 



Marguerite de St. Amand 



1 



2 



3 



Comtesse d'Oxford . . 



2 



1 



3 



Marie Baumann . . . 





2 



3 



Countess of Rosebery 



1 



2 



3 





9, 



I 



3 





2 



1 



3 



Marie Rady 



1 



3 



2 



Duchesse de Vallombrosa 



1 



2 



3 



Marie Yerdier . . . . 



1 



2 



3 



Duke of Edinburgh . . 



1 



2 



3 



Marquise de Castellane . 



2 



1 



3 



Duke of Wellington . . 





2 



3 



Reynolds Hole . . . . 



1 



2 



3 



Dupuy Jamais . . . . 



1 



2 



3 



Senateur Yaisse . . . . 



1 



2 



3 



Etienne Levet . . . . 



2 



1 



3 



Star of Waltham . . 



2 



1 



3 



E. Y. Teas 



2 



1 



3 





1 2 



1 



3 



The plants on the Manetti of Alfred Colomb, Baroness Roth- 



