Novemher 11, 1876. ] 



JOUBNAL OF HOBTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



41S 



WEEKLY CALENDAR. 



NOVEMBEB 11—17, 1876. 



Boyal Horticultural Society — Fruit and Chrysantbe- 

 [ mum Show cloees. 



25 Sunday after Trinity. [ opens. 



Lou^'bborough Show. Crystal Palace Poultry Show 

 Hackney (late Stuko NewingtonJ Chrysanthemum 

 Length of day 8h. i'lm, [ Show. 



AveraRC 



Temperaturu near 



London. 



Day. 



60.2 

 50,2 

 49.9 

 iS.5 

 49.0 

 48 9 

 48.1 



NiRht. Mean, 



34 2 

 ,S3,8 

 35.2 

 83.8 

 348 

 83 2 

 83,9 



42 2 

 42,0 

 42.6 

 41,2 

 41.9 

 41.0 

 41.0 



Sun 

 EiseB. 



h. 

 13 af 7 



Snn 

 Sets. 



Moon 

 Kiees. 



Moon Moon's 

 Sets. Age. 



m h. 

 15al4 

 13 4 



13 al 3 , 21 af 4 

 80 3 61 r. 



31 10 

 40 11 



Dave, 

 13 

 14 

 « 

 16 

 17 

 IH 

 19 



Cl.iok 

 after 



15 49 

 15 42 



Day 



of 



Year. 



815 

 810 

 B17 

 818 

 819 

 320 

 321 



81,1°. 



From obaerrationa taken near London during forty-three years, the average day temperature of the week ia 43.2'; and its night temperature 



THE BOSE ELECTION. 



DECLABATI.ON OF THE POLL. 



fN giving to tlie reader.s of om- Journal tlie 



result of tho election of the newer varieties 



of our national flower I must commouoe by 



regretting that the declaration of the poll 



has not been dehvered in the past month. 



This was my full intention, but "circum- 



stauces," to use a common but trite saying, 



" over which I had no control " have given 



me but scant time for entering into this 



election as fully as I desired, and have com- 

 pelled me to defer the result. The difliculties are pro- 

 bably greater than most persons imagine. The necessary 

 correspondence is great ; rarely is one exchange of letter 

 sufficient for each elector ; there is a difference of opinion 

 as to the age of a Eose, or too many Roses are named 

 when a limited number is asked for — in fact a variety of 

 cu'cumstanoes which necessitate the interference of the 

 returning officer to render the returns complete and 

 reliable. 



Then some reply, Cui bono ' The best answer to such 

 a question is the fact, that one firm in the north adver- 

 tised last year the fifty best Roses as brought out by the 

 1874 election, simply altering two Roses that did not suit 

 the northern elements ; whilst another eminent rosariau 

 in the trade advertised week after week the twelve best 

 new Roses as brought out by the 1873 election, which 

 election he had positively declined to assist ! I smiled 

 at the advertisement, thinking it a curious corollary to 

 the refusal. These are, I may say, public avowals of 

 the utihty of the election. Private letters equally attest 



The columns, &o., are a3 heretofore : First, the No. denoting the position of the Rosp, then the name, age, and kind of Rose. 

 Letters A, B, and C represent the amateurs' votes, the same letters with an asterisk (*) the nurserymen's. The last column 

 is that which decides the position of the Rose, the gross total. A and A* denote each tho number of first-class votes — 

 viz., in the first twelve each Rose has received; B and B* the number of Beoond-class votes; C and, C* the totals of 

 amateurs' and nui'serymen's votes respectively. 



the fact that tho returns are looked forward to with 

 interest ; whilst a paragraph like the following speaks 

 for itself — " I have ordered every Rose not in the fifty to 

 bo discarded." It is indeed tolerably clear that, although 

 the electors are not infallible guides aud are all liable to 

 crotchety notions here and there, yet the general resiiiiu; 

 of the whole election is a fair index of the value of a 

 Rose. Indeed, the wish expressed by some writers in 

 our Journal that this kind of election sliould be extended 

 to other flowers and fruits, is in itself an admission that 

 the election is of value. 



In the present election of the newer Roses — that is, 

 those introduoed since 18G9, including that year, there is 

 the difficulty of the age of each candidate. I have before 

 expressed the wish that some enterprising rosarian ia the 

 trade would give us a catalogue with the age of the Roses 

 attached. Some of the electors have expressed to me 

 the same thought. I believe such a catalogue would be 

 warmly appreciated. This very point makes this election 

 of the newer Roses a greater difficulty than it would 

 otherwise be ; and there are some Roses in the lists that 

 appear to me to take copy by some of us mortals and 

 profess to be younger than they really are. Roses, not 

 being equine, have no teeth on which to pin our verdict. 

 I have my doubts as to Emihe Hausberg and Dupuy- 

 Jamain, even though a leaf of a catalogue was sent me 

 in which both were marked as Roses of 18G9. Had they 

 been so, I cannot but think that somebody in the election 

 of 1873 must have named these two beautiful Roses, but 

 they were on that occasion voteless. This would hardly 

 have been possible ; the names, however, stand. "With 

 this introduction I lay the declaration of the poll before 

 our readers. 



Thirteen Eoses received three votes each, a like number 

 only two votes ; the remainder had but a solitary champion 



No. 7G3,— Vol. XXIX., New Sebies. 



to express partiality for them. Altogether, by the twenty- 

 four electors, 107 Boses were named in the twenty-five^ 



No. 1110.— Vol. LIV., Old Sebleb. 



