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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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six plants, and Mr. Stratton the second. Doubles were much 
finer and better bloomed than it is customary to find them, the 
same exhibitors occupying the same position as for six Zonals, 
Table plants were well shown, and the best twelve came from 
Mr. Smith, the second best from Mr. Lyne, and the third from 
Mr. Stratton. 
ROSES were, considering the heavy rains of Sunday and Monday 
night, very well exhibited, twenty collections being staged. For 
the special prizes offered by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Mr. Moor- 
man easily won the first prize, Mr. J. Clark the second, and Mr. J. | 
Reddin, gardener to E. Reeves, Esq., third. For twelve blooms 
(special given by C. J. Dickens, Esq.) Mr. Scott, Clinton Villa, 
Wimbledon, took the first prize with an exquisite collection. The 
best collection of twenty-four in the gardeners’ class was staged 
by Mr. Moorman, and the first prize for twelve was taken by Mr. 
J. Curtis, gardener to W. Barlow, Esq., Atherton Grange. Mr. J. 
E. Coleby had the first prize in the amateurs’ division. nudes 
Both fruit and vegetables were excellently exhibited, but the 
judging was not completed when our reporter left the grounds. 
We noticed spirited competition among the cottagers, whom 
Fig. 2—RHODODENDRON FRAGRANS. 
this Society greatly encourages in the shape of numerous special 
and other money prizes provided. ‘ 
RHODODENDRON FRAGRANS. 
WE figure this Rhododendron because it is not so well known, 
or at any rate so extensively cultivated, as its merits deserve. 
In the collection of Mr. Anthony Waterer, that has so long pro- 
duced such a gorgeous effect in the gardens of the Royal 
Botanic Society at Regent’s Park, R. fragrans, one of the 
smallest of all the varieties exhibited, was certainly one of the 
most generally admired. Its flowers are chaste in form, pleas- 
ing in colour (deep rosy pink with nearly white centre), and 
they are deliciously fragrant. Attractive as they are in appear- 
ance their delightful perfume is their chief charm. In this 
respect they are surpassed by no other Rhododendron, and are: 
equalled by few ; they are, indeed, as sweet as the Honeysuckle. 
The habit of the shrub 1s dwarf and compact, and it flowers 
with the greatest freedom. For front rows in shrubberies, 
where Rhododendrons and American plants thrive, R. fragrans 
should have a place, and it is equally valuable for conservatory 
decoration. It is one of the most distinct and useful varieties 
—for we believe it is a hybrid—of the handsome genus to 
which it belongs, and cannot fail to give satisfaction wherever 
it is well grown. 
' Fucusra RrccArToNI.—In the gardens at Orton Hall, Peter- 
borough, we recently met with what is not commonly found in 
the eastern or midland counties of England—namely, a large 
