254 THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



HORTICULTURAL AFFAIRS. 



ilHE EOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION OF 

 ROSES, July 1. — The exhibition of roses heh] under the auspices of 

 this Society was considerably below the averaf^e of previous years, both 

 as reo:ards the number and the quality of tlie blooms staged. This 

 was in a large measure due to the unfavourable character of the 

 weather experienced during the spring and early part of the summer. Usually 

 the roses exhibited by the trade growers are the best, but this year those from the 

 amateurs, who were successful in carrying off the principal prizes, were decidedly of 

 the best qualitj'. To give the names of the roses shown in the winning stands 

 would require more space than can be spared, and we shall content ourselves with 

 mentioning the names of the most beautiful and distinct varieties exhibited in 

 the whole of the stands. These were t — Madame Ilippolyte Jamain, Pierre Not- 

 ting, Etienne Levet, Baroness Rothschild, Marechal Kiel, Maurice Bcrnardin, 

 Madame de St.-Pulgent, Marquise de Mortemart, Xavier Olibo, Niphetos, Camille 

 Bernardin. La France, Jean Rosenkranz, Souvenir d'uii Ami, Felix Genero, Madlle. 

 Bonnaire, Exposition de Brie, Madlle. Eugene Verdier, Duchesse de Morny, Claude 

 Levet, Charles Lefehvre, Duke of Edinburgh, Lcelia, Erie Morel, Fisher Holmes, 

 Imperatrice Eugenie, Pierre Seletzky, Belle Lyonnais, Marquise de Ligneris, Louis 

 Van Houtte, Souvenir de Paul Iveron, Madame C. Wood, Emilie Hausberg, Madame 

 C. Crapelot, Marguerite de St.-Amand, Richard Wallace, Bougere, Marquise de 

 ■ Castellane, Catherine Mermet, Horace Yernet, Madame Berard, Abbe Bramerel, 

 Therese Levet, Madame Lacharine, Gloire de Santenay, Reine Blanche, General 

 Jacqueminot, Madame Laurent, Marie Van Houtte, Dr. Andry, Mndanie Rivers, 

 Henri Ledechaux, Mrs. Veitch, Paul Neron, Baron Adolphe de Rothschild, Mons. 

 Furtado, Prince Camille de Rohan, Souvenir d'Elise Vardon, Alfred Colomb, Fer- 

 dinand de Lesseps, Edouard Mon-en, Adam, Lyonnais, Mons. Noman, and Princess 

 Mary of Cambridge. 



The Gaiidenees' Rotal Benevolent Institution held its thirty-first anni- 

 versary festival on Thursday, July 2, at the London Tavern, under the presidency 

 of Alfred de Rothschild, Esq. Many of the leading horticulturalists were present, 

 and several of the leading exhibitors contributed liberally of plants and flowers, 

 and the result was a rich and tasteful display. There was a great and grand show 

 of plants and flowers, and a superb dessert, the gift of friends, was put upon the 

 table. The musical part of the entertainment was not less satisfactory, and con- 

 tributed in an important degree to the pleasure of the company. The Chairman 

 spoke well and to the point, and in the course of the evening it was stated that the 

 subscriptions amounted to £771. 



The Midland Cohnties Horticultueal Exhibition, July 7 to 11. — This 

 exhibition, we are glad to say, was a decided success from every point of view, 

 and the expectations of the most sanguine were fully realized. The gather- 

 ing took place in the beautiful Lower Grounds. Aston, which of themselves are 

 always worthy of a visit, and a series of enormous tents covered plants, flowers, and 

 finiits ; while the machinery, implements, and ornaments were tastefally arranged 

 on the open lawns. The first tent entered contained stove and greenhouse plants, 

 and various elegant accessories. This opened into another containing fruit, of 

 which there was a grand display, and from thence visitors might proceed into a 

 finished winter garden. Returning and going forward, there was a tent full of 

 stove and greenhouse plants. Then, turning to the left, we enter a tent containing 

 the roses, of which a prodigious number were exhibited, mostly in capital condition. 

 The roses were finished with a central line of fuchsias, palms, ferns, and dracaenas, 

 and, to break the flatness of 200 feet run of boxes of flowers, the centre of the 

 length was occupied with a splendid group of new plants. As an indication of the 

 extent of the exhibition, it may be mentioned that of stove and greenhouse plants 

 (the entries included more than one thousand specimens of cut roses) six thousand 

 were entered. The entries of fruit included one hundred and thirty bunches of 

 grapes, ninety pine-apples, twenty-five dishes of peaches, twenty dish j 3 of necta- 

 rines, forty-three dishes of strawberries ; cherries, apricots, figs, and n;i3cellaneous 

 fruits in endless profusion ; while of vegetables the entries included over seven 

 hundred dishes. 



