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eviilence that their rcquiiements are amply supplitd. Between 
30i) and 400 varieties are iccluded in the collection, not of Hybrid 
I’ernetuala or Teas alone, but of ail sectiocs, from the graceful old 
rambling Roses of the Ayishire Hpe, through every grade of the 
most refined florists’ groups. We see spacious beds and banks of 
Austrian, and the richest of all the Copper Austrian Briars, flourish¬ 
ing and flowering in their fullest native freedom. Pink Roses are 
especial favourites, particularly La France and Captain Christy, 
a long bed containing some hundreds of plants being devoted 
solely to the supply of cut flowers. There is also a spacious Rose 
loT'xariK.nt Roses in all directions—trellises, arches, and alcoves 
festooned with the climbers, already becoming wreathed with 
cliarming little flowers. The porch and the walls of the Pavilion 
and other buildings covered with delicate single Roses aTid Briars, 
and clumps in shrubberies or borders of the Persian Yellow, the l 
house of ornamental design, in which IMarechal Niel, William 
.411en Richardson, and Sunset are planted out, and cover the roof 
with their growth and flowers : the other portion of the house 
l>eing filled during winter with Roses in pots, while the surround¬ 
ing beds are occupied with China Roses. 
