ROSES IN POTS. 161 



Marie Sisley Safrano 



Nina Souvenir d'un Ami 



Nisida Vicomtesse de Gazes 



President Zelia Pradel 



Regulus 



The above will be found a very good lot to begin with, 



and the newer and less certain kinds can be added at 

 pleasure, as required. 



EOSES AT THE ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY.* 



\Extract from " The Gardeners' Chronicle? July i^th 1874, P- i9' 

 LEADING ARTICLE BY THE EDITOR, .] 



HEARTILY do we congratulate Mr William Paul, of 

 Waltham Cross, on the success of his attempt to 

 break away from the conventionalism and formality with 

 which a Rose show is invested. Again and again we have 

 protested against the ugly way in which our Rose shows, 

 and we may specially add our fruit shows, are arranged. 

 Only a week or two ago we remarked that the arrange- 

 ment at Rose shows seemed intended to exemplify how 

 even such beautiful flowers as Roses might be rendered 

 ugly and unattractive. At that time we were not aware 



* In July 1874 I made a Rose show in the gardens of the Royal Botanic 

 Society, and the high encomiums passed on that effort by a "leader" in 

 "The Gardeners' Chronicle" 1874, p. 109, and by the daily press aroused 

 the jealousy of certain ordinary exhibitors, who did their best to negative the 

 results expected to arise from it, and this gave birth to a controversy in the 

 pages of "The Gardeners' Chronicle." I have thought it desirable to repro- 

 duce that "leader" and my articles, and if any readers of these pages should 

 be sufficiently interested in the matter to wish to follow the whole of the con- 

 troversy they will find it in the later pages of that Journal for the year 1874. 

 I do not include these papers from a love of controversy, but because strangely 

 enough they serve to elucidate certain occult practices in cultivation. 

 K 



