THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
August 
228 
we bail arrived at the avenue of pillar roses. Pass¬ 
ing round the end of this delightful avenue, the 
walk leads to what the proprietors call the Rosetum. 
This is a considerable plot of ground laid out in 
three long beds, the middle one being a long oval. 
Gravel walks and box edgings divide the beds from 
each other. The tallest standards are planted in the 
centre of each bed, half standards next to them, and 
dwarfs next to the box edging. The soil of the beds 
is of a fine loamy texture, just the light kind for 
roses. This arrangement shows off the flowers to 
the greatest advantage. This rosetum has only been 
planted two seasons, and the best kinds only being 
selected of both old and new sorts, the amateur 
will find here a good place to suit his fancy, and 
choose the very best for his garden. Duplicates of 
all the kinds, excepting the very newest, are in the 
nursery rows in other parts of the ground. Amongst 
so many excellent varieties it is an invidious and 
almost hopeless task to particularize any as being 
better than the others; but as some were pointed 
out to us by Mr. W. Paul as being most suitable for 
bedding or planting out in clumps, we shall endea¬ 
vour to describe them, and by doing this make our 
observations of, •what is the aim and end of all our 
writing, utility to our readers. 
Bedding Boses. — Aubernon, hybrid perpetual, 
bright rose changing to red; a superb large full 
double kind, flowering for a long season. Caroline, 
tea-scented China, blush, pink centre; a large double 
variety, flowering from June till the frost sets in. 
Miss Clegg, noisette, a large, double, beautiful pure 
white, very dwarf, blooming in clusters for a long 
season. Pumila Alba, noisette, a scarce rose of very 
dwarf habit, free flowerer, very double, and pure 
white; excellent for pot culture, for forcing, and bed¬ 
ding. Philibert de I'orme, hybrid Bourbon; a beau¬ 
tiful variety, well worth growing. Joan of Arc, hy¬ 
brid China, white, centre rose ; a superb flower. Le 
Commandant Fournier, hybrid perpetual, brilliant 
red, large, and very double. Jean Roden , new hybrid 
perpetual moss ; a good rose and free bloomer. 
Weeping Boses. —The most elegant of all the 
forms the rose can be shaped into is that of a droop¬ 
ing tree. Several were pointed out to us as being 
good examples of this mode, especially La Belle 
Thurete, a dark rose of drooping habit; Jaune de 
Prez, hybrid perpetual, buff, with yellow centre—the 
specimen here measured 21 feet in circumference; 
Adolphe, hybrid China, beautiful. 
New Boses. —Of those which we noticed as being 
particularly good, we name the following:— Countess 
de Segur, a hybrid Provence. General Negrier, hy¬ 
brid perpetual, beautiful, good form, and pure white. 
We were told it is a good pot rose. Duchess de Prces- 
lin, blush, rosy centre. Count Boubert, hybrid Bour¬ 
bon, fine habit, rosy crimson. Geant des Batailles 
(the giant of the battles), a splendid new rose of the 
most brilliant crimson, shaded with purple. Queen 
Victoria, tea-scented, a fine yellow. 
Of good old kinds, not well known, the following 
were pointed out:— Ladg Hamilton, a hybrid per¬ 
petual, very dark puce ; full and large. Grand Capi- 
taine, fiery crimson, like velvet, and very double. 
Nathalie Daniel, hybrid noisette, peach blossom; very 
beautiful and double. Ladg Alice Peel, a dwarf of 
a deep colour ; very double, good form. Dr. Arnold, 
richest crimson. Dometelle Becar, fine lilac. Ohl, 
Gallic, dark crimson, and scarlet shaded; large, and 
very double. Vulcan, hybrid China, brilliant crim- 
son; good form, and very double. 
Beyond tho rosetum are two long beds of seedlings, 
| some of which were in flower. One in particular we 
| noticed, a dark crimson, four-seasons’ rose. Passing 
to the left we entered a field of roses, in rows, for 
sale. Here we saw numbers of the finest kinds in 
full flower, perfectly healthy, not an insect to be seen, 
and making fine strong shoots for the next season. 
At the lower end of this field were two long beds, 
bounded at the edges with bricks, and filled with saw¬ 
dust : in it were plunged pots of seedling pines and 
various shrubs The chief interest in these beds was 
the novel mode of shading the seedlings. At about a 
yard distant from each other willow rods were bent 
over; and, as they bad been put in green in the spring, 
they had taken root at each end. Almost every bud 
had broken, and the shoots thus produced shaded 
the seedlings sufficiently from the summer sun, with¬ 
out drawing or otherwise injuring them. We think 
this mode worth imitation for various purposes where 
shade is desirable, being so simple and so cheap. 
Wall Boses. —Crossing from the field of roses, a 
walk led us to a wall which stretches down to the 
dwelling-house. This wall has planted against it 
several of the best kinds of roses. We noted the 
following as being particularly good at the time :— 
Laura Davoust, a hybrid multiflora, pink, changing 
to blush; a beautiful double rose, flowering in im¬ 
mense clusters. We had the curiosity to count one 
bunch, and found it contained upon one stem be¬ 
tween thirty and forty perfect flowers ; and this was 
by no means an uncommon head, there were plenty 
more quite as numerous. From this description 
our readers will perceive that Laura Davoust is, for 
covering a wall, a most excellent kind. Leopoldine 
d’Orleans, evergreen climbing rose, white, shaded 
with rose; beautiful, and very double. Myrianthes 
renoncule, evergreen, blush, striped with rose ; small 
and double; a beautiful wall rose. Russelliana, 
hybrid multiflora, dark crimson ; very fine and 
double; a strong grower. Though not so free a 
bloomer as the above, the colour and form of this 
rose renders it a desirable variety. 
We then visited the propagating-by-cuttings de¬ 
partment, which is a manufactory of plants on a 
large scale, some twenty or thirty thousand cuttings 
being struck annually. Here are ranges of pits, 
heated by hot water tanks, in a chamber covered in 
with slates and boards, with about six inches deep 
of sawdust to plunge the cutting pots in. Such are 
the means used for striking cuttings, and, apparently, 
a successful mode it is. 
We noticed in one of the houses a fine specimen 
of that new and elegant plant, Zauchsneria Califor- 
nica, in full bloom, three feet high, two feet across; 
but, on account of being rather forced, the colour of 
the flowers was deficient. 
The houses for forcing roses are of considerable 
extent. One of them is now occupied with some 
specimens of Cryptomeria japonica, and other kinds 
of pines, besides a great number of seedlings, of 
various ages, of Cedrus Deodara and Araucaria 
imbricata. 
Such are the brief notices we made at this inter¬ 
esting nursery. We shall only add that the whole 
is in good order: excellent walks, fresh-raked bor¬ 
ders, and not a weed to be seen. We must now 
close the account of our visit by remarking that a 
pleasanter day we never spent, the weather being 
fine, though somewhat too hot, which rather caused 
some of the roses to droop. We visited afterwards 
the gardens of H. B. Iver, Esq., C. Warner, Esq., 
Mrs. Bosanquet, and B. Hanbury, Esq., near Ware, 
in all of which we noted some things that we trust 
