JOTJENAL OF HORTICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GARDENBK. 



[ July 8, 1873. 



occupied in getting notes to attend to anything else; but I left 

 those in the tent who were quite comjietent to have judged, 

 and a good deal of annoyance might have been spared. But I 

 suppose it is something like what was told me when I urged 

 that it would be as well to publish the certificates with the list 

 of prizes. "It is simply impossible." And yet the Royal Botanic 

 Society does it after every show ! I am snre of this, that the 

 classes for nurserymen are quite enough for any two judges, and 

 that the smaller classes for Teas, new Rose.s, Arc, ought to be 

 deputed to another set, different from those who judge ama- 

 teurs; in fact, if the Royal Horticultural Society would con- 

 descend to take a lesson from the Ci'ystal Palace it might be 

 well for them. 



Eoses in pots were only contributed by Messrs. Paul & Son, 

 who had nicely-bloomed dwarf plants of Anna Alesieff, General 

 Jacqueminot, Gloire de Dijon, Seuateur Vaisse, Elie Morel, 

 Mens. Noman, Beauty of WaUham. Exposition de Brie, John 

 Hopper, Marquise de Gibot, Horace Vernet, Duke of Edinburgh, 

 Claude MilUon, Camille de Rohan, Ferdinand de Lesaeps, 

 Madame Fillion, and Victor Verdier. 



In the class for seventy-two, Mr. Cranston, of Hereford, 

 easily took the first prize with some very fine blooms, amonsst 

 the best of which were Marquise de Gibot, a Rose of 1870, 

 but which has, as far as I know, been rarely seen before this 

 season ; it is of a fine clear rose colour, and half-globular in 

 form. Dupuy-Jamain, Marquise de Morteraart, La?Ua, Princess 

 Beatrice, Auguste Neumann, Dr. Andre, Horace Vernet, Com- 

 tesse d'Oxford, too large and coarse to please me ; Catherine 

 Mermet, Jean Cherpin, John Hopper, Marguerite Dombrain, 

 Esmeralda, Edouard Morren, Princess Mary of Cambridge, 

 Baroness Rothschild, Niphetos, Duke of Wellington, Duke of 

 Edinburgh, Henri Ledechaux, Francois Lachnrme, Hi-uri Pages, 

 large but dull in colour ; Marie Baumann, Ijouisa Wood, very 

 bright ; Marcohal Niel, Julie Touvais, an immense Rose ; Maurice 

 Beru.ardin, Charles Rouillard, Caroline de Sansal, Niphetos, La 

 France, and Madame Margottin. Messrs. Paul it Son were 

 second with Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier, remarkable in colour; 

 Madame Rivers, Madame Clert, Madame Clfimence .Toigneaux, 

 Abel Grand, Jean Cherpin, Duchess d'Orleaus, Senateur Vaisse, 

 Madame Boll, Exposition de Brie, Annie Laxtou, a remarkably 

 pretty flower and of good quality ; Alba rosea, Vicomtesse de 

 Vesins, Francois Lou vat, Margchal Niel, La Fontaine, Alba rosea. 

 Marguerite Dombrain, &c. Mr. Charles Turner was third with 

 Camille da Rohan, La France, Fislier Holmes, La Fontaine, 

 &c. In the class for forty-eight trebles, the same exhibitors 

 occupied the same positions, and in twenty-four trebles also. 

 Mr. Cranston has Niphetos, Duke of Edinburgh, Marguerite de 

 St. Amand, Louisa Wood, Madame Knorr, and Lord Clyde. In 

 the class for twenty-four single blooms, Hybrid Perpetuals only, 

 Mr. Cranston was again first with Edouard Morren, Horace 

 Vernet, Marguerite de St. Amand. Princess Mary of Cambridge, 

 Julie Touvais, Marquise de Castellane, Charles Lefebvre, Nardy 

 Frcres, Dr. Andre, Comtesse de Chabrillant, Baroness Roths- 

 child, John Hopper, La France, Victor Verdier, &c. Mr. 

 Turner wab second, and Mr. Cooling, of Bath, third. 



Amateurs exhibited in strong force. The Rev. J. B. Camm 

 was first with Marguerite de St. Amand, Souvenir d'Elise, a 

 most lovely bloom ; Narcisse, Duchesse de Caylus, Reine d'Or, 

 very lovely ; Triomphede Rennes, Marquise de Castellaue, Pier-re 

 Netting, Edouard Morren — I have never seen this variety so 

 ■well shown as by Mr. Camm— Fisher Holmes, Boule de Niege, 

 a very grand bloom. Prince Camille de Rohan, Elie Morel, 

 Marechal Niel, Dr. Andre, Duke of Edinburgh, Abel Grand, 

 Charles Lefebvre, Centifolia rosea, Marquise de Mortemart, 

 CamiUe Bernardin, Souvenir d'un Ami, Marie Baumann, 

 Madame Ck'mence Joigneanx, Madame Vidot, Madame Charles 

 Wood, &c. Mr. Baker, of Exeter, had a fine box in which the 

 flowers were, however, alittle too coarse, containing Henri Lede- 

 chaux, Baron Gonella, Madame Haussmann, Charles Lefeljvre, 

 La I^rance, Marechal Niel, and others. Mr. Laxton, of Stam- 

 ford, was third. In the class for thirty-six, Mr. Baker was first 

 with Marguerite Dombrain, Souvenir d'un Ami, Lord Macaulay, 

 Lyonnais, &c. — D., Deal. [Remainder of notes on Roses next 

 week.] 



H.usDY Trees and Shkuus.— One of the most notable features 

 at Birmingham last year proved to be the splendid collections 

 of these exhibited in the grounds by Messrs. Barron, of Elvaston, 

 and others. There were on this occasion no entries in the large 

 classes ; and in that for single specimens Mr. Cooling, of Bath, 

 sent Biota orieutalis elegantissima ; Mr. R. T. Veitch, of Exeter, 

 Taxus elegantissima ; and Messrs. Maule & Son, a specimen of 

 Thuja aurea. But worthy of special notice in this class of plants 

 was the collection sent by Mr. Maurice Young, of Godalming. 

 He had, at considerable expense, sent a quantity of old stumps 

 and other materials to form a rootery at the entrance to the large 

 tent. The outer margin was formed of low-growing plants and 

 hardy Ferns, the other portion of the space being very judi- 

 ciously and effectively planted, mostly with Japanese evergreens 

 and Maples. Euouymus elegantissimus was very pretty iu its 

 white variegation; Biota semper-auroscens, a fine dwarf golden I 



species, which Jlr. Young thinks superior in effect to Thuja 

 aurea ; Raphiolepis ovata, a handsome evergreen shrub with 

 white flowers and glossy deep green leaves, it has black berries 

 in winter ; Retinospora plumosa aurea ; Y'oung's Golden Chines© 

 Juniper, Juniperus chinensis aurea; Ligustrum coriaceunr, a 

 handsome Privet ; Cryptomeria spii-alis falcata; and to add to 

 the effect some improved seedling Auoubas, one of them with 

 thick, leathery, deep green leaves, which will be well adapted, 

 for planting in exposed positions. Mr. Y'oung must be con- 

 gratulated on the success of his exliibition. His plants are 

 thoroughly well grown, and as far as we are aware he has been 

 the first to hit upon this plan, which shows these extremely 

 pretty Japanese plants to the best advantage. Mr. Fowler* 

 Castle Kennedy, sent a basket of small plants of his Abies 

 Douglasii Stairii, the young growths of which are creamy white, 

 and are said to change to a green colour in winter. 



SuppLEMENT.vBY Fkuit Suow. — Ou June 26th there was a 

 supplementary exhibition, the same exhibitoi-s staging in nearly 

 every case inferior examples to those put up on the first day of 

 the Show. Mr. W. Coleman, Eastnor Castle, sent a collection, 

 of very good fruit — Black Hamburgh Grapes, excellent Peaches, 

 Brown Turkey Figs, Elruge Nectarines, and a Melon. Mr. W. 

 Cox, of Madresfield Court Gardens, came iu second with a nice 

 collection. Mr. Coleman and Mr. Cox also exhibited the best 

 Grapes. Prizes were offered by Messrs. Carter for examples of 

 the new Melon, Little Heath, sent out by them for the first time 

 this season. The best came from Mr. Gilbert, gardener to the 

 Marquis of Exeter, Burghley, Stamford. 



T.uiLE Decorations. — In our remarks on the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society's Show at Bath last week, we only cursorily noticed 

 the table decorations. We intend now to call attention to tliem 

 rather more fully, for, though they did not make so decided a 

 feature of the Show this year as they did at Birmingham in the 

 last, yet there were some especial features with regard to those 

 exhibited this year to which we wish to allude. 



There were only five exliibits this year, and these may be 

 divided into two classes, two that were utterly meagre, poor, and 

 thin, and three that were overloaded with decorations. One of 

 these last was exceedingly meritorious if it had not been for the 

 napkins. Even though many persons might object that even ' 

 without the napkins, and the loose flowers stuck into them, the 

 rest of the table was crowded, yet the arrangement of the flowers 

 was exceedingly good, their quality unexceptionable, and the 

 fault of redundancy is certainly on the right side. One which 

 received no prize at all had certainly nothing to recommend it, 

 either with regard to the arrangement of the flowers or the fruit j 

 the glass vases laden with glass balls set on a centre of reflecting- 

 glass were decidedly mereti'icious iu their glare. There was one 

 redeeming feature in this table, which was exhibited by Mrs. 

 Beck, of Milsom Street, Bath, and that was the caraffes for 

 water of a classic Pompeian or Egyptian pattern, standing in a 

 light silver stand, supported by silver wire, having glass beads 

 as pendants. These were certainly good, but the rest of the 

 adornments of the table, which we shall refer to again, were 

 decidedly of the shoppy showy order. After these preliminary 

 remarks we will go more into detail with regard to each of the 

 different entries, and will take them in the order in which the- 

 prizes were awarded. 



The first prize was adjudged to Miss C. Harris, Clarendoa 

 Park, Salisbury. There were three centre vases ; and by the way 

 we may remark, that all the exhibits, except Miss Blair's, haci 

 three vases for centres, as prominent features — one central, and 

 two sides ones balancing. Ou Miss Harris's table the three 

 vases were similar in height and design, though the ornamenta- 

 tion was somewhat different. This we consider a mistake iu 

 the first instance, as in no case should the two side-centre vases- 

 be so tall as the centre one. Miss Harris's vases were a flat glass 

 ou the table, with a tall slender glass rising from it, and thre& 

 small side glasses hanging on bent wires, standing out at right 

 angles from the centre of the stem of the tall glass. The prin- 

 cipal vase had a spray of Bougiunvillaja glabra in the centre, 

 with a little Dielytra spectabilis and Verbascum, and three taU 

 common field Grasses, standing out above it, mixed below with 

 Quaking Grass ; the three little side glasses had each a spray of 

 poor Fuchsia with a bit of the flower of Cerastium tomentosum 

 and a little Maidenhair Fern. The base of the vase had heavy 

 masses of Adiautum farleyense splayed flat on the table, a Fern 

 which we hardly thought before could be used with bad taste; 

 Oncidium flexuosum, purple Iris, a little hardy yellow Azalea, 

 and flowers of the common Laurel put in to imitate Lily of the 

 Valley. The two side vases had white Everlastings and .\crocli- 

 nium roseum mixed with grass ; the side pendant glasses, Ce- 

 rastium and Fuchsias, the same as the other, and the base rather 

 better arranged, as it had some pretty flowers of Kalmia latifolia. 

 to help to set it off. There were four small glasses with Iris and 

 Fern, and buttonhole bouquets, which were neatly made up for 

 each of the guests. With regard to the Iris we may remark that 

 they were of that particular shade of colour which turns nearly- 

 black by gaslight. There were eight dishes of fruit, top and 



