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by the luxuriance of the stocks, well suited for both the Dog Rose and 
Manetti stock. This latter, Mr. Tiley thinks the sheet anchor of the 
Rose grower; all his dwarf plants are worked on it, and were pro¬ 
ducing blooms of most astounding size ; but he says that it is so rapid 
a feeder that, to keep the plants in health, it should be taken up yearly, 
their roots pruned, and planted in fresh soil; with this treatment the 
stock will last many years in health. We were rather late for the 
principal summer display of bloom, but still a number of grand Roses 
were in flower. Of those which occurred to us as extra fine, we noticed 
Comtesse de Chabrillant (figured in Florist), and a brilliant distinct 
Rose it is. Empereur de Maroc, a dark velvet, valuable for its 
approach to the old Tuscan rose colour; Madame Boll, very fine; 
Louis XIV.-, unquestionably the finest Rose out, and one which 
you should have figured—a deep rich crimson, the petals shaded 
with a dark velvet hue, difficult to describe, but most gorgeous to look 
at; it seems to stand the sun well, and will throw our old friend 
Jacqueminot, with the Geant des Batailles and Eugene Appert class, into 
the shade ; Victor Verdier, cherry coloured shaded with a carmine tint, 
though not very constant, a pleasing and sterling flower ; Virginal, a 
clear white Perpetual, a lovely flower; Madlle. Eugenie Verdier, a 
French white slightly shaded with peach, good; Senateur Vaisse, a 
large showy flower, deliciously sweet; Empress Eugenie, another true 
white Perpetual; Madame Vigeron, rose; M. Vidot, as well as M. 
Vigeron, magnificent on the Manetti; M. Celine Touvais, a good show 
Rose ; Madame Crapelet, shaded cerise, fine ; Prince Leon, grand, 
as was also General Jacqueminot; Victor Trouillard, fine; Mdlle. 
Bonnaire, white, but only in the bud—appearance in that state good; 
Mr. Tiley considers it first-rate. The above are a few of the new Roses 
caught in bloom. Of the older kinds there was a very fine display, and 
we were struck with the large size of the blooms generally, doubtless 
owing to the favourable nature of the soil, perhaps also a northern slope, 
fully exposed, may assist in producing a larger flower than when the 
trees are full south. We shall generalise on this more fully, after 
looking at the Salisbury collection, where I am told wonderful results 
are obtained from a similar situation. 
Mr. Tiley has several houses in this nursery, for the growth, prin¬ 
cipally, of soft-wooded stuff, and an imposing new range is about being 
commenced, and also lots of frames for Cucumbers, for which he is 
much noted ; each variety has a separate frame, to keep them distinct, 
and these were full of fruit ripening off for seed. 
In another ground florists’ flowers are grown; Fuchsias, bedding 
things. Ferns (for which we are told there is an increasing demand in 
the winter). Begonias, to which the same remark applies, and other 
popular plants filled up the remaining houses ; in one we noticed some 
very prettily marked Petunias, one of which was tipped with white in 
a manner that reminded us of the beautiful Ipomoea limbata. Passing 
on to another ground, lower down the hill, we found it stocked chiefly 
with fruit trees, all of which seemed to delight in the deep loamy soil 
which has been washed from the higher grounds to these lower levels, 
rendering them well adapted for fruit tree culture. After having thanked 
