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H.P. Madame William Paul is crimson and purple shaded; it is a large and 
full flower, of good shape; and H.P. Madame Charles Wood, crimson; petals 
large, and face of the flower smooth; a flower of first-rate properties. 
I have deferred any notice of Mr. Paul’s new Roses of this year, in order 
that it should form the last paragraph of my chapter. H.P. Beauty of 
Waltham is of a beautiful shade of colour, a kind of cherry-coloured bright 
rosy carmine, the flowers being well cupped, full, and large. It is one of the 
best abused flowers of the season. H.P. Lord Macaulay is a magnificent flower, 
as I saw it here. It is in colour a glowing crimson, and very frequently has a 
shading of plum colour; a thick and full flower, and very free blooming. 
H.P. Lord Herbert is a rosy carmine flower, of large size and full substance ; 
occasionally it comes remarkably fine. H.P. Princess of Wales I conceive to 
be a flower of extra-fine quality, in colour a vivid crimson; thick petals, large, 
and very double. The plant is free and vigorous, and hardy of constitution. 
H.P. Red Rover is a grand pillar Rose; it is of a striking colour, and flowers 
remarkably free. Where a mass of bloom is required this Rose should be 
obtained to secure it. It is also a continuous, as well as an abundant, flower- 
bearer. 
Among several Roses that are well adapted for bedding and massing, 
H.P. Anna Alexieff is one of the best. In colour it is pink, and literally heaps 
upon itself loads of bloom. Admiral Nelson and Souvenir de Mons. Rousseau, 
shades of crimson, are only a little inferior to it. The first-named gave forth 
its masses of pink flowers— 
“ Drinking in the drowsy music of the hee ”— 
with unaccustomed prodigality. 
I thank Mr. Paul for such a treat as I here enjoyed. In the stillness of the 
summer evening, standing amid these forms of material beauty, I could not 
but acknowledge the power of their silent expression of the Divine goodness, 
that implanted in them the capacity to calm, in a human soul, the restlessness of 
“ That fierce tide that steals 
Through the city’s long and sinuous veins ”— 
linking the heart to emotions too fine in their conception to be demonstrated. 
These kindled emotions are a protest against the selfishness of soul that sees, 
in such types of beauty, only an objective significance, that has no correlation 
to an inward correspondence. 
“ O, God! how barren were thy gift of life 
Devoid of flowers, with nought but weeds of strife ” 
Quo. 
THE FORMATION OF ASPARAGUS-BEDS. 
TO WHICH IS ADDED A SHORT NOTICE OF THE METHOD PRACTISED IN 
THE IMPERIAL GARDENS AT VERSAILLES. 
Supposing that the amateur has finished his arrangements as to trenching 
and draining the ground for his garden, it will now be expedient that he 
should arrange his crops; and in doing this, Asparagus will occupy a very 
important position. There is no vegetable which conduces more to the health 
and comfort of a family than this. Its nutritiousness and easiness of digestion 
render it fit food for the invalid, while at the same time the man in good 
health fully enjoys it. It is, in fact, the ne plus ultra of vegetable productions, 
and the garden which wants this wants the greatest luxury which can be 
produced. 
It is important to the successful culture of Asparagus that it be planted in 
