THE GARDENERS’ 
Fesevary 2, 1895.] 
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Friday Next, February 8, 1895. 
SANDER’S UNRESERVED 
SALE OF 
CATTLEYA TRIANXE. 
The true Ibaque type, which has become nearly extinct. 
We had to employ a great number of men in collecting, although these 
mountains have been familiar to us for the past twenty years. We offer 
the entire lot—and no more are coming. 
2000 GRAND PLANTS, 
In the soundest, plumpest, most leafy, and most perfect condition that any 
plants have ever previously been collected. Collected by our own experienced 
collector in the immense Ibaque Mountain district. 
OUR VARIETIES HAVE REALISED IMMENSE SUMS 
when private Collections have been sold. LREAN A brought 
700 Guineas (five Plants) Our Ibaque varieties have no equals, and 
the Lot now offered are from the same mountains whence we imported 
Leeana, Schroderiana, Measuresiana, Hardyana, Ernesti, 9 
Oweniana, Colemanii, Vanneriana, Russelliana, virginalis, alba, and many 
others— in fact, all the best. 
The Whole to be Sold Without the Least Reserve. 
ALSO 
1000 IMPORTED PLANTS œ SANDERS TRUE 
Pacho Odontoglossum crispum, 
Just to hand from our own mountains, which we have hired for the 
past eleyen years. 
Plants in Splendid Order and Condition, 
AND ALL TO BE SOLD WITHOUT THE LEAST RESERVE. 
O. crispum, apiatum, O. c. Veitchianum, O. c. Sanderianum, and all the 
most magnificent forms of this lovely Species are from our importations. 
Of this there can be no doubt, and those now offered are the genuine 
Sanderian Pacho type; this we guarantee. 
M PROTHEROE AND MORRIS will SELL the above by 
CTION, at their Central Sale Rooms, 67 and 68, Cheapside, London, E. C., on 
FRIDAY AAR February 8, at half-past 12 o’Clock, by order of 
Messrs. F. SANDER anp CO., St. Albans, 
Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1805. 
EXHIBITING ROSES. 
1 is the dead season in tbe Rose garden 
speak metaphorically, because as King 
Frost has not laid his icy grip on our Roses as in 
some recent years, I hope and believe that there 
are few deaths amongst them ; and as we are now 
drawing to the close of the first month in the 
year, always a most trying one, whether to man 
although a the past week we have had both 
snow and fro 
At such a pee various topics which have 
found no place during the busy months of the 
year, crop up—just as when the dead social 
season arrives, the Big Gooseberry, or some 
equally important subject, is started in the daily 
papers, and correspondents take up the cue, and 
fill columns with a subject no one cares 
penny about. Amongst the subjects connected 
with the Rose which is sure to assert itself in 
e form or another, is that of the method of 
exhibiting the flowers. We see tirades against 
the 
formality, and the result has always been a 
failure ? Ep.]. Weare sometimes asked why we 
do not take a lesson from our neighbours across 
8 Well, I have seen Rose exhibitions the 
exhibitor even in his novitiate would set up with 
us, But as the method of exhibiting Roses seems 
to be a subject with interest to many, I venture 
to put forward a few remarks on it, even although 
some of them may appear heretical to many 
growers, 
First of all, let me ask what is the object of 
the Rose exhibition—is it not primarily to see 
the best? that is, the largest, brightest, and 
most beautifully-formed of the many lovely 
varieties of this beautiful flower. We want to see 
them in all their beauty, to be able to look at 
present one? Wecan 
hibited in Mr. Foster’s tubes), do this easily in 
the present style of boxes; we can see easily 
whether rules have been broken, foliage added, 
or any tricks played with the flower, and I know 
of no other mode of exhibiting in which it can 
be so effectually done. I have seen them ex- 
hibited in baskets crowded with ym foliage 
and moss from whence it would have been diffi- 
cult to take out a flower for the purpose ei 
examination, or to see whether there had bee 
any underhand dealings wit it. If Rn 
