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and Sir F. Bathurst ; 4tli, Mr. Bragg, Slough; 5th, Air. Drummond, 

 Bath; 6th, Mr. Lcgg, Edmonton. Nurserymen, 12 fancies: 1st 

 prize, C. Turner, with Empereur de Maroc, liachael, Ehzaheth, Mrs. 

 Willis, Pretty Polly, Mrs. Hansard, Lady Grenville, Jeannettc, Mrs. 

 Laboucliere, Jenny Lind, Gasparino, and Floral Beauty ; 2d, Mr. 

 Keynes, with Princess Charlotte, Comic, Lady Grenville, Conspicua, 

 Mrs. Hansard, Madame Wachy, Striata j)ertecta, Empereur de Maroc, 

 Rainbow, Admiration, Jenny Lind, and Flying Dutchman ; 3d, Mr. 

 Barnes. For three blooms of George Glenny : 1st, Mr. Black ; 2d, 

 Mr. Cook. 



In class showing, seedlings, the best Dahlia was Dr. Frampton 

 (Rawlings) ; the best fancy, Laura Lavington (Keynes) ; the best 

 Fuchsia, Nil Despcrandum (G. Smith) ; the l)est Hollyhock, King of 

 Roses (Bragg); '.d, no name (Black); 3d, Satisfaction (Bragg). The 

 best Verbena, National (G. Smith) ; 2d, Koh-i-noor (do.) ; 3d, Or- 

 lando (do.). 



AN OBSERVATION OR TWO ON BEDDING ROSES. 



A FEW years since, it was said to be impossible to grow Roses in 

 pots that should be creditable specimens. The belief was current 

 till somebody tried and j)roved its fallacy ; and now all good garden- 

 ers can do the thing well enough. The same has occurred in other 

 branches of gardening than the one mentioned, and will doubtless 

 often occur again, for there is a vast deal to be done before perfec- 

 tion can be reached. Now, Roses for bedding is a fertile subject of 

 discussion and argument. Some are recommending a certain kind, 

 and another says it is of no use for the purpose. More tell you that 

 another is the only one likely to remunerate you ; the next person 

 you ask condemns it in ioto. And thus you may go on inquiring, 

 thinking to get the best advice, till you are so involved in a chaos 

 of instruction, that you can create nothing from it. Advice is of 

 course often invaluable, and should never be rejected if it is likely 

 to benefit you in its ado})tion. But when you seek instruction in a 

 matter about w^hich nothing definitely is known, a valuable adjunct 

 will be to use your own observation and common sense. In select- 

 ing Roses for bedding, this will come to one's aid, and the practice 

 of it will yield useful results. Take your note-book and pencil, visit 

 the Rose-ground of some extensive Rose-grower in the autumn, and 

 you may record more valuable hints in an hour than an octavo trea- 

 tise of a hundred pages could furnish, or than you could reap from 

 a lecture from Mr. Paul himself. Shape, size, colour, habit, adap- 

 tation for late blooming, are all laid open before you, and you can find 

 little difficulty in making a good selection. 



Without professing any proficiency in the art of bedding Roses, 

 1 have occasionally made a few notes in relation thereto : as they 

 may be useful to some one, I record them. One of the first essen- 

 tials in a bedding Rose is that it should stand well up on its foot- 

 stalk. For a pole or climber the reverse of this would, of course, be 



