August 11, 1888.] 



THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



149 



WEBBS' SEEDS 



From Rev. H. J. Bull, Roborovgh 

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 " Please send me a Is. packet 

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 . 8d. ., 



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 6d. 



Pen 



ONION. 



WEBBS' RED GLOBE TRIPOLI . 



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GIANT ROCCA 6d. 1 



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TEA ROSES. 



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NOTICE 



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THE 



SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1888. 



THE ROSE SHOWS OF 1888. 



TT is quite clear that there is one subject on 

 -*- which it will never do to prophesy in 

 England, and that is the weather ; we see how 

 often the forecasts issued by the Meteorological 

 Department are wide of the mark, and so we need 

 not be surprised if those of us who can only 

 make guesses are often wofully wrong. Thus I 

 had ventured to say that there was every pros- 

 pect of a good Rose season, and so, when I wrote, 

 there was; but on looking forward I believe 

 that I cautiously added an " if " — if we do 

 not have some thunderstorms ; and now that 

 the Rose show season is over I think the 

 epithets " aggravating " and " disappointing " are 

 those which are most applicable to it. I 

 have seen a good many Rose seasons, but I do 

 not ever remember one more irritating to the 

 exhibitors (of whom I am not one) than the 

 season of 1888 has been. Societies whose exist- 

 ence depends on the gate-money, exhibitors 

 who have desired to gain honours in the strife, 

 and lovers of the Rose who have wished to see 

 for themselves the best productions that the skill 

 and intelligence of our growers have been 

 enabled to produce, have all alike had to suffer 

 disappointment. Some societies have been fortu- 

 nate in securing a fine day, but many have had 

 to hold their shows in the midst of heavy showers 

 and sloppy meadows, while in some cases the mis- 

 haps have been especially worrying. 



It may give some idea of the character of the 

 season, and how it has affected the Rose shows, 

 when I mention that the number of entries at the 

 Metropolitan Show of the National Rose Society 

 at the Crystal Palace numbered 534 (the largest 

 number ever recorded at any Rose show), while 

 the number actually staged was 30(3. It will also 

 show who were most affected, when we find that 

 in the higher classes both of traders and amateurs 

 there were few absentees, but that as we come 

 down to the lower and smaller classes the falling 

 out was most decidedly marked. This was 

 notably the case in the Tea and Noisette divisions, 

 in the larger classes of which the exhibits were 



