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JOUENAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



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tent. The sides of the tent as you entered and turned to the 

 left, and as far as the south end next to the vegetables, were 

 occupied by banks of Eoses. These were not arranged according 

 to their concoiirs or classes, but each exhibitor filled a space 

 according to the classes in which he was going to exhibit, and 

 the several exhibitions of the same exhiljitorwere placed together. 

 I do not know whether I make this very plain to understand, but 

 the classes for Roses were arranged as follows — 



Concours 36. For Eoses, seedlings not yet put into commerce, 

 and never yet shown at any exhibition. 



37. For a collection of more than 2tiO varieties. 



38. For a collection of more than 100 varieties. 



39. Do. than 50. 



40. Do. do. than 25. 



41. For a collection of more than 25 varieties of new Eoses 

 sent out during the last three years. 



42. For a collection of more than 25 varieties of Tea Eoses. 

 Class 43, For collections of the greatest number of Eoses of 



tie same variety, not less than 50 flowers of any one variety. 



44. For a mixed collection of Eoses without distinction of 

 variety, arranged for effect, but not less than 200 flowers to be 

 exhibited. 



45. For the best coUection of Eoses in pots. 



From this list of classes it will be seen that quantity was what 

 was aimed at ; and in this they were eminently successful, as 

 the quantity of Eoses brought together was immense. For 

 instance, I will try and describe one bank of Eoses shown by 

 one exhibitor. First came a mass staged for Class :J8, about 

 180 varieties, in bunches of four to five in a bunch, with many 

 duplicates of some of the varieties. This occupied a space about 

 10 feet long, from 5 to 7 feet wide. Then where the bed widened- 

 out came a collection for Class 43— about CO Paul Neron, 160 Mal- 

 maison, 450 Gloire de Dijon, and 50 Baroness Eothscbild. Then 

 came 50 Jules Margottin, 50 Eeine d'Angleterre, and 50 La 

 Seine. After this followed a collection of new varieties of the 

 last three years. Then came a division between the exhibitors; 

 and in the same bank almost was a coUection of 200 varieties, 

 then a mass of La Eeine, then a collection of 100 varieties ; the 

 end of the group finishing with three kinds of Eoses, fifty kinds 

 in each, the whole being edged with about 150 Gloire de Dijon. 



About two o'clock the Judges were assembled together at one 

 end of the grounds and divided into different sections, five in 

 each — l6t,For stove, greenhouse, and omamental-foliaged plants ; 

 2nd, for Eoses ; 3rd, for fruits ; 4th, for vegetables ; 5th, indus- 

 trial department ; 6th, agricultural department. 



After choosing a President among the Judges in each section 

 we had to commence our deliberations. And here I may say 

 that the awards were not in money, but in objects of art and in 

 medals, and a certain number of marks or points to be given to 

 each coUection in each class according to their merit, five points 

 being considered as the maximum. For the first class. Class 36, 

 in Eoses, new seedlings, there was only one forthcoming, and 

 that of no great merit. I forgot to say our Rose Jury consisted 

 of M. George Schwartz, of Lyon, President ; M. Lacharme, of 

 Lyons, M. Soupert, of Luxembourg, Mr. Marc, of New York, and 

 myself. I am glad to say the new seedling was not certificated ; 

 and if the example of our Jury had been followed with regard 

 to a few other new Eoses, examples of which I had before my 

 eyes here, it would have been a good thing. In Class 38 there 

 were three competitors, one showing the best Eoses, but having 

 too many of one kind of bloom — Paul Neron, among them ; a 

 second having staged his badly, but having some of the best 

 individual blooms ; and a third running equal in point of marks 

 with the first by better judgment in arrcngement and selection. 

 And here I must say that the quantity of Eoses had to be eked 

 out by many of inferior quality, there being onlj' very few 

 blooms of really great excellence. Among them I noted Dr. 

 Andry, very fine ; Madame Laffay ; Prince Imperial, nearly the 

 best bloom of the many thousands shown ; Madame Thi'jrose 

 Levet, Souvenir de la Eeine d'Angleterre, La Eeine, Abel Grand ; 

 and among the newer varieties Madame Verard, Ei'*ve d'Or, 

 Perfection de Montplaisir, Madame Bernard, President Thiers, 

 Etienne Levet, Eichard Wallace, rather small ; Madame Trifle, 

 Tea. 'This and other exhibitions this year have confirmed me 

 in my impression that there are really no very good new seed- 

 litigs of 1871 or 1872, and that our best seedlings are the English- 

 raised ones, Annie Laxton and Cheshunt Hybrid. Bessie John- 

 Bon, as only a sport from Abel Grand, I do not reckon among 

 the new seedlings, nor do I think it any improvement on Abel 

 Grand. I also question its permanency. 



But to return to the Exhibition I am at present speaking 

 about. For Class 39, more than a hundred varieties, there 

 were abont fotir lots entered for competition, and in this one of 

 the exhibitors was much in advance of the others. The names 

 of the exhibitors had not been given on to the awards before 

 we left, so I cannot particularise them. There were no en- 

 tries for more than twenty-five of a sort, and only one for more 

 than fifty ; and in Class 41, for twenty-five or more new varie- 

 ties introduced the last three years, there were only two entries, 

 of no great merit. 



Class 42, for masses of different kinds of Roses, not less than 

 fifty of a sort, was one of the great features of the Show. In 

 the centre of the tent, in beds alongside one of the diverging 

 paths, were two lots, one a mass of liiOPaul Nerou in the centre, 

 then two rows of Gloire de Dijon 160, and two rows of Souvenir 

 de la Keine d'Angleterre 150, on the outside. This bed was 

 massed too close, and wanted foliage. Alongside it was another 

 bed, a great contrast tfifteen hundred). Rose du Eoi in the centre, 

 chiefly buds on foliage, then one side a line of La Eeine and 

 Souvenir de la Heine d'Angleterre, and on the other side a row 

 of about eighty Madame Boll, chiefly half opened. This bed 

 was shield-shaped, Madame Boll being on the inner or top side 

 of the shield, the two other rows outside. Besides these two 

 beds, there were also other lots for competition, two of which I 

 have already described; and as it will be seen from what I have 

 already said, one of the particular features of the Show was the 

 way in which Souvenir de la Reine d'Angleterre and La Eeine 

 were exhibited in masses ; indeed I have never seen La Reine 

 so fine — not coarse and lumpy, as it so often is in England, but 

 clean shell-shaped petals, and fresh in colour. Souvenir de 

 Malmaison was also well shown ; but, then, both Gloire de 

 Dijon, which was here jShowu by the hundred, and Souvenir de 

 Malmaison have both got English reputations for autumn 

 blooming. 



But I have not yet described what was the most striking 

 thing among the Eose beds, and that was a vast bank of Eoses 

 shown by the Eose-growers of the village of Grisy Luisnes. 

 The mass was the whole width of the tent — i.e., about 50 feet 

 wide, extended 30 feet up one side, and 12 the other side, vary- 

 ing in breadth from 4 feet in the least, to 12 feet in the greatest 

 breadth. This bank, according to notice put up, contained 

 thirty thousand Eoses in nearly six hundred varieties, and con- 

 tributed by twenty-two Eose-growers in the district of Grisy 

 Luisnes, and they also informed the public visiting the Show, 

 that they had in their district four hundred thousand Eoses, 

 standards, half-standards, and dwarfs ready to distribute in 

 November. The effect of this mass of Eoses was very striking. 

 There was too much pink of the colour of Anna de Diesbach, 

 but, on the whole, it was very effective, and most probably the 

 same kind of thing can hardly be seen elsewhere. The Eoses 

 were all in small bunches, which were thrust into balls of clay 

 flattened-out at the base, with a hole pierced at the top to 

 receive the Eoses, the clay being then pressed round the stems. 

 There was a plentiful distribution of toliage and buds, and no 

 traces of the clay balls were visible, moss being put between the 

 interstices. 



With this I will conclude my notice of the Eoses, but will add 

 more another time with regard to other departments of the 

 Show, both fruit and vegetables, as there were several exhibits 

 of unusual merit among the fruits, especially Pears and Apples^ 

 and I could not but regret that the Manchester Exhibition had 

 not been graced by a collection of these French-grown Pears 

 and Apples, chiefly produced on espaliers and pyramids. There 

 were also other things with regard to this Show which are well 

 deserving of notice, and which I will allude to in next week's 

 Journal. — C. P. Peach. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



We nnderstand Messrs. Felton & Sons, of Birmingham, 

 have been appointed nurserymen and seedsmen to His Eoyal 

 Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. 



Messes. J. B. Bkown & Co., 90, Cannon Street, Lon- 

 don, were awarded the medal for merit for their galvanised 

 wire netting at the Vienna Univeesal Exhieition, for " ex- 

 cellence and perfection in material and workmanship, large 

 extent of production, and cheapness of produce." 



An unsatisfactory controversy was carried on a few years 



since as to the meaning of this Scotch popular rhyme : — 



" The pule of the Garioch, 

 And the Bowmau of Mar, — 

 They met on Bennachic ; 

 The gule wan the war." 



The i/ule is a weed (wild Mustard) too well loiown in many 

 parts of the country, although, perhaps, it is more generally 

 known by other names. It is also pronounced flwele, and is 

 derived from the same root as gold, ;iilil, fielt — i.e., from the 

 root of yellovi, and signifies the yrllnw plant — a name to 

 which it is well entitled, for it too often covers the green corn- 

 field with a blaze of gold. Another rhyme of the " north 

 conntrie " also mentions it, characterising it as one of the pests 

 of an agricultural country : — 



"The pule, the Gordon, and tho hoodie.craw 

 Are the three worst eneinicB Moray over saw." 



Bowman is an old Scotch word for farmer, from hon, hnll, or 

 bow, a farm-house (originally of a dairy or pasture farm), 

 derived, probably from Gael, bo, cows, cattle. This root occurs 



