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with grand examples of Miss Poole, Madame Clemence Joigneaux, 

 Duke of Edinburgh, Madlle. Alice Dareau, Marie Baumann, La 

 France, Anna de Diesbach, Madame Victor Verdier, Climbing De- 

 voniensis, General Jacqueminot, Madlle. Annie Wood, Miss Poole, 

 Francoise Treyve, Miss Ingram, Horace Vernet, Marechal Niel, and 

 Centifolia Eosea, all of which are very fine. Messrs. Paul and Son 

 were first for twelve blooms with Comtesse d'Oxford, and for six with 

 Louis van Houtte, undoubtedly one of the finest of recent intro- 

 ductions. Mr. Turner was second in both classes, and staged twelve 

 very fine blooms of Miss Poole, a variety sent out from Slough two 

 years since. 



At Birmingham, the competition was very severe in the trade 

 class for seventy-two, and the first prize was awarded to Mr. J. 

 Keynes, Salisbury, who exhibited amongst others superbly-finished 

 blooms of Xavier Oliho, Ville de Lyon, Caroline Sansal, Baronne 

 Adolphe de Eothschild, Francoise Fontaine, Madame Clert, Edward 

 Morren, in much better condition than it is usually met with ; 

 Madame Boutin, Jules Margottin, Duchesse d'Orleans, Senateur 

 Vaisse, Centifolia Eosea, Hippolyte Flaudrin, Gloire de Dijon, 

 Alpaide Eotalier, Eeine du Midi, Exposition de Brie, Paul Neron, 

 Madame Eugene Verdier, a large pseony-shaped flower of but little 

 merit for exhibition purposes ; Abbe Giraudier, Baroness Eothschild, 

 Madame Fillion, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Madame Hector Jacquin, 

 Fisher Holmes, La Eeine, Duke of Edinburgh, Madame Dustour, 

 Baronne Gonella, Dupuy Jamain, Francoise Lacharme, Princess 

 Mary of Cambridge, Madame Charles Wood, Niphetos, Prince 

 Camille de Bohan, Antoine Ducher, Souvenir d'un Ami, Victor 

 Verdier, Elie Morel, Madame Moreau, La Motte Sanguinea, bright 

 in colour, but flat and second-rate ; Clemence Eaoux, Charles 

 Lefebvre, Triomphe de Eennes, Madame Marie Eady, Madame 

 Vidot, John Hopper, Josephine de Beauharnais, Mdlle. Marie Eady, 

 Louis Van Houtte, Abel Grand, Alfred Colomb, Marquise de Morte- 

 mart, Marie Baumaun, Emilie Hausberg, Catherine Mernett, Anna 

 de Diesbach, Devienne Lamy, Camille Bernardin, Pitord, Madame 

 La Boutte, Comtesse d'Oxford, Madame Clemence Joigneaux, Mar- 

 guerite de St.-Amand, Mdlle. Marguerite Dombrain, Maurice Ber- 

 nardin, Madame Willermoz, Marquise de Castellane, La France, and 

 Louise Peyronne. 



Mr. Keynes was also first for twenty-four new roses sent out by 

 English nurserymen in the spring of 1S69-70-71, and staged Cle- 

 mence Eaoux, good ; Comtesse d'Oxford, very distinct and good ; 

 Charles Turner, poor as shown ; Emilie Hausberg, Marquise de 

 Mortemart, Marquise de Castellane, a fine rose for pot culture and 

 garden decoration, but hardly full enough to admit of its being con- 

 sidered a first-rate rose for exhibition purposes; Mdlle. Eugene 

 Verdier, second-rate; JSardy Freres, Thyra Hainmerich, PaulNeron, 

 large and of fine form ; Eeine Blanche, Abbe Giraudier, La Motte 

 Sanguinea, Jeanne Guillot, Louis van Houtte, a most valuable dark 

 rose ; Louisa Wood, Catherine Mernett, Dupuy Jamain, Perfection 

 de Lyon, Ferdinand de Lesseps, a decided acquisition ; and Madame 

 Dustour. 



