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viding lines of plants, b 
Chins seme’ on exh biting. Would it = be very un- | a brilliant mass of colour, and distract =- E irha e ki ~ s p arda z poe fe pi = wees 
fair to the small grower to show Roses on the massing | study of ppm beauties to a sense o i fons wight be grouped toetiies M 
system? How is he to find the blooms ms couipate with - the m oa ny of the whol x ie more a this | ti art ie coe rpe mii a y in the 
y, es ae o ts aia es be aom oar a ie Tasis ld | tive would these look if all the entries were placed in 
‘* immoral” action of buying or begging them from Goed blooms of any one o xg lings i ms deep, a ei 
his neigh n the n show thei neither add to oni detract from the form, colour, and | O a did bejaitód Pr pg 3 In 
twelve, twenty-four, or forty-eight blooms, and | loveliness of any one good ; in see e | way weye iy = sien if here and there, 
ulate their friends to enter the lists? Again, the | see all that an acre of plants could produce. There | between the mixed c ETE ere were groups of say 
number of exhibitors must be limited or their masses | is a frightful species of heresy attempted to be pro- sixty ‘fal N i 5 i C Edi Pe : Baumann, 
must be very small ones, and if they are for competi- | pagated when it is asserted that the exhibition of the | Marec 4 a or ss ie i bi urgh, or La France, 
tion Mr. Priors dressing and Madame Rachelising | finesf and grandest blooms that the Rose can produce how gran = e yp an : any case, if the 
must be in great request, as excellence of bloom must | is altogether wrong and misleading. e whole aim | idea is a crude one, 1 ve W i east t 1e merit of 
; ive arrangement. Practical. ris i i easily worke t : ere there’s a will 
ee «arc b may suggest so 
arnestly fi tions, and nificent flowers that cultivation can pr e 
I felt konar whet caught ight of Mr DES a our exhibition tables, just as is the case thing that will Alex, Dean. 
sh’s name amongst the pea. Sem re oes with the Dahlia, Gladiolus, and, indeed, with al 
at one with the majority of previo pons horticultural ? Sei set Turners, Cants, The Best Garden and Show Roses, are 
“D., De val,” eC? “p, P,” in ‘till fallir ‘tint Princes, and other great growers of the Rose can | they not Identica al ? — This subject seems to 
“we must hold fast to a system which has: largely | place "Beir re the ublic flowers that are in size and | have sprung from the discussion of Rose show im- 
made our Roses what they are.” His ideas of bake — all that all other gro — e or small, | provement, but from my point of view has but little 
ing pillars, &c., are hardly fitted for competitive e can a certainly they hav ick to do so, | bearing thereon. I ventured to give on p. 233, 
hibitions, and no one has proposed to Bws Siid and peers re can they look for Their seen d for superior | August 22, a list of Roses, ‘ the best for garden and 
competition, feeling that shos ws would not long sur- | cultivation ded display of cultural ability but in the | exhibition purposes,” and to any practical man it À 
vive its abolition. The priority of the e nain ofthe | prizes offered for their competition, and the admira- | seems evident that any show, be it arranged how it 
to be important to | tio d approbation of the public? When the | may, must consist in main part of the varieties named 
” but its practical application has ose is reduced to the level of a bedding plant | in that list. And of more than varieties only 
ills’ idea | for th duction of glari nd nescent | twenty good Roses of the autumnal flo classes 
Lycopod | masses of colour, or when, to suit the tastes of carp- e given as not admissible, for one or the other 
might be well applied to the existing method | ing critics, it is exhibited as pro nder ‘‘ ordi reason, in th ct list of ‘*show an s 
box of ven ie oy then good-bye to the supremacy | Roses.” It must be a fairly chosen selection, as your 
co e at the same at the Queen lowers has so long and so sweetly | correspondent, Mr. W. Paul, only aitia athe foot- 
‘angle at which the boxes are usual et er Bone e ani for Aal will indeed have fallen. Aslongas | note, meant to refer to the few white Tea Roses 
n front | the Rose is exhibited as a florists’ flower in its most | na , which were described = lama Fee Sat 
ct Sali so long | wi re Rose competitio I need h the remark did not apply to the 
con- e ; and it were better to spend inkand paperin | Teas ire de Dijon and other rampant-growing 
l nE ed of flowers which = the = of new or impro Taies of ing classes. But re -K — not my eke 5 r of and 
box are on ther t the penning alities or articles | **T have said” asse —“‘ The st ndare of size a 
devices for setting off the present box system, and | that are calculated to bring Rose competitions into | shap j yof thè mE 
no practical TEn for the utilisation of what | contempt. No suggestions towards an improved | best Roses for te te decoration,’ lied corr ectly © 
was ‘‘ the talk of the town” has been made. We are | mode of showing cut Roses have been offered : are we, | this time, ST hope, Messrs. Editors. The hiyi 
drifting out of dares putt of ae for those of us therefore, to conclude that none are possible? To | fanciful classes mentioned in the happy e% 
t business men, and ee to be still without | grow a Rose well is one thing, to arrange a show of | recommendation of the “‘last editi 
the no’ ical misa we é Noved or from the | them o the best possible advantage is another. It is | Garden, are beyond the powers of most 
discussion. Is a conference of rosarians e - | real tion for rosarians, and more one for | Rose ri ; but I aa Kp thinking that the three 
ject of Rose show improvement not possible? There | the consideration of floral decorators—of men whose | classes your correspon: expresses 
are plenty of practical men amongst the class—men | profession it is to create beauties as if by magic out of | with, diite but little Toa the three of which i 
interested in making Rose shows more attractive, and, hatever materials may be at their disposal, only in | trations are gi my lis ut the sorts incl 
fro I them, not sparing in labour for | this particular case they have in the ting stands | in the respective lists differ : for instance, 
a task so congenial discussion as t f flowers beautiful objects, the w. e ex- | respondent’ s a pri 
garden Roses, which has grown out of this, I esa pected to appropriately and fittingly frame—beauties Neron;” it is too big and coarse and 
ventured to deal with elsewhere, if you can find roo not to be added to or detracted from, but rather to be | shown in winning stands, but in the large if for 
for so many letters from one hand. George Paul. shown upin bold and clear relief, so that, whilst the | grounds it is one of the most largely grown kinds for 
whole group of pices she shall produce one admirable | ‘‘garden” purposes, and forms ih the Royal Bou 
Ea Geisen of of Rose Exhibitors.—Your | and pleasing effect, yet not for one momen t in the Brie Rose shows, of which the Roy: pi i 
i Mr. Prior, as I think, recklessly attacks | shall the admiring eye be distracted from the char Society’s exhibition was but a feeble copy. 
itors, and is honestly bound to be sure of | of each picture, or the beautiful floral portraits that Lamy and Mar arqui se de Mortemart = posing | Roses 
the fhe pank ds on Whicld he actuses them of immorality. | individually go to make up the magnificent whole. | for show is Van 
If he is not so sure, does not the charge redound on | Now, there is scarcely an exhibition of importance in Houtte i is one of the few sorts we ae ea i ad 
himself? Allow us, as old exhibitors of cut Roses, to | the kingdom where the Rose is not staged in the | ten fine show Roses, too feeble in ath for 
take seriatim what he describes ‘‘ as the well-known | usual pattern-boxes upon baize-covered tables. It | purposes, so that our classes here are identical. 
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concerned, the practices which he condemns, ‘‘The } In this latter case a simple arrangement of dwarf ois ae as stg rand garden Reed: be lacking $ shape 
m maiden plants” we fear we must | Ferns and Selaginellas, with plenty of loose moss, | enough for show Roses ;” the sorts he gives 
“thee selection of the most shea might be made so that each box should be hidden | de Neige, Visher Holmes, Prince oe de ‘Rohan, 
erroneous. ‘* Disbudding” is ie view, whilst the Roses in each collection should | Madame Falcot and Safrano—don’t ee 
seis produce fine flowers, which, we , as it were, set in a framework of dense and orna being both fine show and garden Roses. 
is practised ood nur- mental ee a with the introduction of a few s mall leave for the special culture of your co 
and and F 
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or other foliage plants as a back. The | and our old friend . Rå 
for | whole hig e ‘would beco mplete, ama might easily be | colours; Duc de Cazes and Comte. R 
ry | Monee on the e Spot by any person of ordinary posing these Roses ar 
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pixi a np more difficult problem to solve, and | for exhibition and garde 
orked out by the epa power of | our best and most saleable R 
only 
the Society itself, or by means of some decorative | the ‘‘cleverest horticulturist” (name?) as to the 
ving the men Lr pla aced be fore | baneful influence of the florists on the ; 
them, see at a glance what is w urnish it | like many other doleful ie ogo 
accordingly. Now, I would apes ae pakis of | The florists’ influ the i 
mem 2 ence is 
dealing with a Rose show sh meth the arcades there, | of the flower, but the fact that Rose gro 
something in this fashi si aie trade has cou core anything li 
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Be evened: Each Derog yr of seventy-two Gaara or in the Rose growing fi 
single Roses, in 48’s, trusses each, could tril ceed i description 
flowers as good might make 
