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JOURNAL OF HOBTICUIiTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENER. 



[ July I*. 1863. 



■ioil and oiimate. It will prove an mteregting"experimeut> 

 and the aote? aoeruing therefi'om wouJi-l be extremely useful- 

 — G. A 



T^iK NATIONAL ROSE SHOW. 



SECOND NOTICE. 



Stt tar j,s the two Metropolitan Eose Shows are concerned 

 tiiis j'ear, my own judgment upon them was that while 

 Roses were not out of character, they were cei'tainly not in 

 chara<iter. They were not, as two years ago, so badly 

 bloomed that it was diiflciUt to tell the varieties ; neither, 

 on the other hand, were they so fine as I have seen them, 

 or. perhaps as they will be at the Bii-mingham Show next 

 week. As I said in the last Journal of Hokticultube, 

 they had a "used-up" look abovit them; this referring to 

 their general appearance, some blooms, however, being very 

 fine. 



Amateurs were certainly first, theii- flowers exhibited in 

 some of I:heu' boxes being very fine ; and, as in the account 

 I gave of the Crystal Palace Show, I rather inclined to the 

 nujrseryiiien, I must now speat more of the amateurs ; and 

 here, as usual, Mr.Hedge, of EeedHall, Colchester, cai-i-ied the 

 greatest weight of honours. Thi'ee first prizes and a second 

 clearly testified to the inunense difficidty of attempting to 

 vanquish so experienced and so large a grower as he is. It 

 is astoniihing, and would be to those who aa-e non-exhibitors, 

 I have no doubt, almost incredible, how many trees must be 

 gone over before a good box of blooms can be cut. I was 

 talking at the Exhibition to one of the largest growers in 

 the kingdom, who was describing to me a magnificent 

 quarter of Koses containing about 15,000 plants, budded 

 with only one bud, and yet he said if he had had to cut 

 ninety-sir blooms ho would have been greatly puzzled to 

 have done it. Mr. Hedge grows about 2500 plants, and must 

 do them well and creditably to be able to cut so many blooms 

 so constantly as he does dui-ing the Eose season. 



In the class for forty-eight Eoses, single trusses. Mr. 

 Hedge had Comtesse de ChabrOlant, Madame Firrtado, 

 Madame Yidot, Charles Lawson, Adam, Gloii'e de Santenay, 

 Mathuria Regnier, Francois Lachai-me, Eubens (Tea, a most 

 lovely bloom). Lord Baglan. Dr. Deultin, Madame de Cam- 

 baaeres. Souvenir d'Ehse (Tea, exquisite), Jules Margottin, 

 L'Enfant Trouve, very fine — how any one can say this is the 

 same as Elise Sauvage jjuzzles me ; Madame Zoutman, La 

 ViUe d:e St. Denis, Madame Domage, AcidaHe, Baronue 

 Prevost. Souvenir d'uu Ami (Tea), Letitia. Prince Leon, 

 Triompiie de Eennes, John Hopper (exquisite), Leo X., 

 La Fontaine, Madame Sertot (Tea, good). Queen Victoria, 

 General Jacqueminot, Enfant de Lyon, Senateur Vaisse, 

 Colonel de Rougemont, Souvenir de Leveson Gower, Gloire 

 de Dijou, Boula de NanteuU, Aug-uste Mie, Madame Masson, 

 BIi's. Elvers, and Anna de Diesbaeh. Miss Crawshay, Eead- 

 ing, was second. The most remarkable flowers in her stand 

 were Madame Falcot (one of the highest-coloured yellow 

 Tea Roses we have), Senateur Vaisse^ Gloire de Santenay, 

 Amiral Gravina, Baron GoneUa, Devoniensis (very fine). 

 and Madame Vidot. Mr. Worthington was thii-d. In liis 

 stand was a splendid bloom of Isabella Gray (which, alas ! 

 too rarely displays her beauties), Devoniensis, Homer (a 

 curiously mottled Tea), and Prince Camdle de Rohan, In 

 Mr. Ingle's stand, who came fourth, there was a beautiful 

 bloom of the old yellow Provence, beautiful, indeed, but 

 another of those which so rarely expand. 



In the class for twenty-four blooms, Mr. Dobree, of the 

 Prioiy, WeUington, Somerset, was fu-st with Louis XIV., 

 Comtesse de Chabrdlant, Jules Margottin, Queen Victoria, 

 Gloire de Santenay, Monet, Pran(,«is Laeharme, Lomse 

 Peyronney, Madame Masson, Madame Rivers, Madame 

 Charles Crapelet, Glone de Dijon, Lord Eaglan, Madame 

 Furtado, Charles Lefebvre, Caroline de Sansal, Madame 

 Charles Wood, Souvenii- de la Mahuaison, Victor Verdier, 

 Prince CamiUe de Eohan, La Reine, Senateur Vaisse, and 

 Louise de Savoie. Mj.-. Hedge was second, and in his stand 

 were fine blooms of Mi-s. Elvers, Comtesse de Chabrdlant, 

 L'Enfant Trouve, Charles Lawson, Gloii-e de Dijon, and 

 Gloire de Santenay. 



In the class for eighteens, Mr. Hedge was first with 

 Madame Furtado, Madame Vidot, Lord Eaglan, William 

 Griffith, Madame de Cambach'es, Souvenir d'un iVmi, Ma- 



dame BoU, Gloire de Dijon, Fraii(;ois Laohai-me, Juno, Ma- 

 dame Domage, Auguste Mit', Chai-les Lawson, Narcisse, 

 Prince Regent, Comtesse de Chabrillaut, Monte Christo, 

 and Caroline de Sansal. Mr. Ingle was second, and had, 

 among-st others, good blooms of Devoniensis, Elise Sauvage, 

 Paidine Lanzezeur, William Griffith, and Charles Lefebvre. 



In the class for twelves, Mr. Hedge was again first with 

 Charles Lawson, Madame Vidot, Gloiie de Dijon, La ViUe 

 de St. Denis, Souvenir dun And, Madame Boll, Cai'oline de 

 Sansal, Madame Pierson, Mrs. Rivers, La Fontaine, Jrmo, 

 and Lord Raglan. Rev. H. Helyar, of Yeovil, was second 

 with Senatem- Vaisse, General Jacqueminot, Madame Fur- 

 tado, Victor TrouiUard, Comtesse de ChabrUlant, Madame 

 Hector Jacquin, Jules Margottin, Gloii-e de Dijon, Eugene 

 Appert, Comte de Nanteuil, Triomjihe de Paris, and Chailes 

 Lawson. 



To enumerate the names of the winning flowers in each 

 stand seems a repetition, tiresome, and endless. We also 

 know what Roses to exjiect. Of coiu-se. General Jacque- 

 minot, Comtesse de ChabrUlant, Senateur Vaisse, Gloire de 

 Dijou, and other Eoses of a similar well-known character 

 win be there, and. therefore, as I am now to notice the 

 nurserymen's prizes I wUl only take such flowers as were 

 remarkable in each class. A flower may be in one staOjd 

 excellent, in another worthless. 



In Mr. Cant's stand of ninety-six, which obtained the first 

 prize, were John Hopper, Celine Forestier, Comtesse de 

 Kergorlay, Souvenn d'un Ami, Cloth of Gold, Christian Piitt- 

 ner, Alexandre Fontaine, Senateiu' Vaisse, Olivier Delhomme, 

 Madame C. Wood, Louis XIV., Eugene Appert, Souvenii 

 de Comte Cavour, Souvenir d'Elise (a most exquisite bloom). 

 Due de Eohan, and Devoniensis. In Messrs. Paul & Son's 

 stand, which obtained the second prize, were Louis XIV. ; 

 John Hopper, very fine ; Madame C. Wood ; Baron Rothschild 

 (1862); Prancjois Premier; Jean Goujon (1862); Maurice 

 Bernhfirdin ; Aui-ora. good Tea; Lord Canning, fine; Ma- 

 dame Julie Daran : Monte Chi'isto ; Vicomte Vigier ; Le 

 Rhone (1862) ; Trauson Goubault : Anna Alexieff ; Senateur 

 Vaisse ; Prince CtimiUe de Rohan, fine. In Mr. Mitchell's 

 third were Louise de Savoie, Senateur- Vaisse, Charles Le- 

 febvre, Professor Koch, Josej^hine Malton, Souvenir- de Lady 

 Eardley, Christian Puttner, Souvenir de Comte Cavour. 

 Gloire de Dijon. Tureune, General Jacqueminot, Due d'Os- 

 suna, and Madame Charles Crapelet. 



In the class of forty-eights, thi-ee trusses of each, Mr. 

 Chai-les Turner, of Slough, was fii-st \vith, amongst others, 

 Madame Chai-les Crapelet, Celine Forestier, Souvenir de 

 Comte Cavour, General Jacqueminot, Paid Ricaut, Francois 

 Arago, Caroline de Sansal, Narcisse, Comtesse de Chabril- 

 laut, and John Waterer. In Mr. Francis's stand, which 

 obtained second, I noticed Senateui- Vaisse, Gloii-e de Dijon, 

 Paul Ricaut, MdUe. Bounaue. and Louis XIV. 



In twenty-four- trebles, Mr. Keynes, of Salisb'oi-y, was 

 first. He had some fine blooms of Paul Dupuy, Eveque de 

 Nimes, Panline Lanzezeiu-, Madame Vidot, Senateur Vaisse, 

 Franijois Laeharme, Colonel de Rougemont, Prince Leon, 

 Jides Blai-gottin, and Olivier Delhomme, 



In tweuty-four singles, Mi-. Chiu-les Turner, who obtained 

 first prize, had fine blooms of Madame Chai-les Crapelet, 

 Anna de Diesbaeh, Devoniensis, General Jacqueminot, 

 Chai-les Lawson, Lord Eaglan, Madame Vidot, Paul Eicaut, 

 Jules Margottin, Charles Lefebvi-e, Anna Alexieff, Gloire de 

 Dijon, Madame Hector Jacqiun, Madame Boutin, Madame 

 WiUermoz, Mathra-in Regnier, Vicomte Vigier, Victor Ver- 

 dier, Madame Kuorr, Madame BoU, Comte de Cavour, 

 Souvenir de la Mahuaison, and Senateur Vaisse. 



It was qvute too late for pot Eoses, but for the season 

 some creditable phmts were exhibited by Mr. Wm. Paul, 

 and Messrs. Turner, Paul & Son, and Francis. 



In the class for twelve blooms of any new Eose of 1862, 

 Ml-. Wm. Paul was first with Beauty of Waltham ; and Mr. 

 Cant second with Olivier Delhomme. A fine box of Tea- 

 scented and Noisette Eoses came from Mr. Hedge, com- 

 prising Boule d'Or (very fine), Madame William, Eeine Vic- 

 toria, L'Enfant Trouve (fine), Bougrre, Moiret, Madame 

 Sertot, Souvenii- d'un Ami, Madame Bravy, President, and 

 L'Enfant de Lyon. Mr. William Paul was second, and Mr. 

 Hollingworth third. 



Moss Koses call for no particidar remark, nothing either 

 new or good was noticeable iiniongst them. 



