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APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
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SATURDAY, JULY 13—Royal Botanic Society. 
SHOWS. 
SATURDAY, JULY ard ee Gala- 
WEDNESDAY, Jury 174 National Society, at Derby; 
Rose 
Megs с Horticultural. 
Эй... tora) Sie О) 
SALES. 
Orchids, f:0m Messrs, 
TUESDAY, JULY 16 
Imported 
Hugh Low Low А S at Protheroe & 
FRIDAY, JULY 19 { Imported and ре МА Orchids, 
at Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED FROM THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK.— 63°.4. 
: rst of the three exhibitions 
— =й of the Nationak Rose Society 
bition, held at was an unqualified success, For 
years the National held 
two exhibitions, one metropolitan and the other 
pro- incial, A few years ago, however, an attempt 
was made ы hold an earlier show of Teas and 
Noi connection with the Royal Horti- 
oultural Society at the Drill Hall, as it was 
urged that the best blooms of these ‘classes were 
past before the Crystal Palace show came on. 
The attempt was not a very successful one, and 
it was ultimately determined to supersede it, 
and to have three general exhibitions—Metro- 
politan, Northern, and Southern. Previous to 
this, Gloucester had asked for tbe provincial 
m ro there, and the request had been 
mittee to ask Gloucest 
the and kindn secretary, and 
the hospitality of the ‘Mayor and officers of the 
lo ety, made everything move with the 
cdo 
There are two classes of persons who Visit 
who are 
ign , and 
therefore view it with an uncritical eye; to 
them the Roses are perfection, and they cannot 
tand how any fault can be found with 
them. There are those, on the other hand, who 
are hardened, so to speak, by the exhibiting of 
багы years ог more, and whose judgment is 
not influenced by what first meets the eye, but 
by a comparison with the results of former 
найы, they,may be at timesYexacting, as when 
omeone says that is the finest bloom of Horace 
E ernet that ever was seen, they quietly add 
“but don't you think the colotr is a leetle 
gone?" Beautiful and bright as the Roses were 
on this occasion, they were perhaps somewhat 
wanting in size and solidity. There were no 
exceptionally grand blooms, and when one con- 
siders the terrible winter through which Rose 
growers have passed, and the long drought of 
the last two months which has so disappointed 
the hopes of gardeners and farmers, it is mar- 
vellous that on such a day blooms of such 
freshness could have been shown, more especially 
when they have had, as in many instances, to 
make a night journey on such a close and sultry 
night as that which preceded the show. 
There has seldom been a more close contest 
than that which took place for the 5-guinea 
oup presented by the High Sheriff of Gloucester ; 
and when ultimately the prize fell to Rev. J. Н. 
PEMBERTON, no doubt could exist but that it was 
a hard fought and well won victory. The de- 
tails of the fight were given in our last issue. 
In such a season it was not at all likely that 
blooms of surpassing excellence should be seen, 
you would say to a 
splendid bloom of Marie Baumann, or Jones’ 
grand Catherine Mermet?” and hence it happens 
that peculiar interest attached to the selection 
that would be made for the best bloom in the 
respective classes, Now, it very often happens 
that in the great race of the Derby the favourites 
on whom long odds have been laid are nowhere, 
while an outsider carries off the coveted prize. 
Last year at the — Palace, for instance, 
Margueri off the silver medal in 
the amateur's clin 10 for r Dr Ворр, and this year 
an equally little-known rose did the same for 
Messrs, HARKNESS in the nurseryman's class 
for few people have heard of the Rose in ques- 
tion, Comtesse Ludre; this is a bright carmine 
red Rose, which was sent out by EUGÈNE 
VERDIER fifteen years ago, but has never, so 
far as we know, been exhibited before, and yet 
although there were fine Roses of well-known 
varieties, the coveted prize was awarded to it. 
The curiosity which is always active as to new 
Roses was not destined to be gratified at Glou- 
cester; there were no seedlings exhibited for 
competition for the gold medal for the best 
seedling, and amon already in 
co de ар was hardly anything that merited 
special по 
A vie yellow Rose was exhibited by 
Messrs. JEFFERIES & Sons, of Cirencester, It 
.. is a seedling between Cloth of Gold and 
Maréchal Niel, a beautiful soft yellow with 
good glossy foliage, and stout foot-stalk, more 
resembling Cloth of Gold than Maréchal Niel. 
The severe winter of last year tried it very 
much, but it is to be hoped that the raiser may 
be able to bring it forward at some later show; 
it is of rampant habit, and should it fulfil its 
present promise will be a valuable addition to 
what are called our climbing Roses 
Whatever interest may be taken in'other ex- 
hibitions of Rose Societies throughout the 
country, there сап be little question that they 
are all eclipsed by that taken in the great Met- 
ropolitan show held by aes National Society at 
the C Whatever doubts may have 
existed as to the браон by which amateur 
exhibits were regulated by the number of; plants 
grown, it is unquestionable that though it may 
not have realized what some expected, it has 
given a stimulus to Rose exhibitions. 
CHRONICLE. 
Sez BA 
[Jury 13. 1895, 
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Everyone must have been struck by the jm. 
mense improvements which have taken place in 
the arrangement of the show under the direction 
of the Garden Superintendent, Mr. W. G. Hran. 
Instead of the long formal line of boxes stretch. 
ing from end to end of the transept, the 
exhibition was broken up into groups containing 
a few classes, and this, as the boxes were mingled 
with growing plants, no: only gave a pleasanter 
aspect to the exhibition, but also enabled visitors 
to move about more freely, so that it w 
possible at any time during the afternoon to get 
a sight of the flowers. 
88 antioipations, and opinions have 
been freely in, and as usual some of 
these were right and some wrong; thus, it way 
generally thought that it would not be a first- 
rate exhibition, and this, we think, notwith- 
consequently, staying powers, those that were 
grown on heavy soils standing best. It was alto 
expected that, owing to the character of the 
season, the northern growers would stand the 
best chance. It will be seen that this was 00 
the case, the chief prizes both in the nursery- 
men and amate to southern ~ 
would be that the Teas and Noiset 
better at the provincial exhibition, and th 
hybrid perpetuals at the metropolitan. As 
happens most times at eat show, at 
amateurs are fully abreast of the nursery À 
men in the excellence of their exhibits, and 
i Mr. 1лхрзкгл/8, in be 
Trophy Class, would, if there had been 
prize, have been awarded that for the best 4 
in the show; it contained some grand bloom, + 
hybrid ate in the amateur class 
awarded; and it is somewhat — 
that the sara for the same prize in 
nurseryman's class was given to the san 
flower in Mr. В. R. Самт' stand. No T 
this time came in to carry off the honours, 
been just the year for Comtesse de Ni 
but it was not so; very few good blooms 
far as we could see, 807 — 
out mot 
conspicuously was Madame Cusin ; for whe 
shown, it had a richness of colour 
ceptional, and indeed, in one instance 
one of our most experienoed growers 
a grand bloom of it P for his 9 he woul 
allow it to be staged, because he e 
it out of character, i 
It was anticipated that garden Roses әш 
somewhat deficient, and this proved to be 
had % 
d 1 
first prize, came from Bath, 
Dundee, In the same way, new Roses wie 
plentiful, and of these none of those from ^ 
seemed to attract any — — ve 
anything very striking in absolutely 
was adjudged oces of the Gold Medal: : 
similar to The Bride ed another 4 P 
were highly commended; Messrs. © 
