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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ Joly 6, 1876. 



foliage or other flowers, in groups of not less than three. Three 

 prizes.— 1, ilrs. T. B. Nichols; 2, Miss Wilson; 3, Miss A. 

 Benecke. 



In this Association and the sister one at Reigate a practice 

 prevails of giving prizes for the best Rose in the Show. This 

 creates considerable interest, and has an educating tendency. 

 Camille do Rohan has several times obtained this honour, also 

 Annie Wood and Marie Baumann. On this occasion Louis Van 

 Houtte was distinguished. Amongst Teas Madame Bravy has 

 come oftenest to the front, and next Marechal Niel, Gloire de 

 Dijon, and Madame Margottin. This year the winner was 

 Souvenir d'un Ami. 



Judges.— W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S. ; Rev. A. B. Alex- 

 ander, and Mr. George Paul. 



EOSES AT "WISBECH SHOW. 



The third annual Exhibition of RoseB, &c, was held in Col- 

 ville House grounds (lent by Mr. John Baker) on Thursday last- 

 The grounds were in excellent condition. Like other early 

 Rose exhibitions the blooms at Wisbech showed very plainly 

 the effects of the May frosts. As a role the flowers were not up 

 to the mark in colour or quality. 



Reynolds Hole was well exhibited in several stands. Madame 

 Lacharme, General Jacqueminot, Marechal Niel, Francis 

 Michelon, Marguerite de St. Amand, Baron Adolphe de Roth- 

 schild, and Dupuy-Jamain, were the beBt blooms in the winning 

 stands. 



Mr. W. Farren of Cambridge waB the most successful exhibtor, 

 securing the three silver cups in the open classes. The amateurs' 

 classes were well contested ; but the blooms were wanting in 

 quality and size. A basket of twelve blooms of Madame Lacharme 

 exhibited by Mr. Prince of Oxford were simply superb. 



Bouquets were well shown and in good taste, also table de- 

 corations were very fair ; only it is a pity the exhibitors will 

 crowd so many flowers in. However choice the flowers may 

 be, the stands look so much better with few flowers arranged 

 with taste. Appended is a list of the awards : — 



Open clasBes. — Forty-eight varieties of Roses, one truss of each 

 distinct kind. — 1, silver cup value £'10, Mr. W. Farren, Cam- 

 bridge ; 2, Mr. J. House, Peterborough ; 3, Mr. G. Prince, Ox- 

 ford. Twenty-four varieties of Roses, one truss of each distinct 

 kind. — 1, silver cup value £5, Mr. W. Farren; 2, Col. Read, Elm ; 

 3, Mr. J. L. Curtis, Chatteris. Twelve varieties of Rosos, three 

 blooms of each, distinct. — 1, silver cup, Mr. L. Farren, Cam- 

 bridge ; 2, Mr. G. W. Piper, Uckfield ; 3, Miss Penrice, Norwich. 

 Twelve Roses of any variety. — 1, Mr. G. Prince; 2, Mr. W. 

 Farren ; 3, Mr. J. L. Curtis. Best specimen bloom of any Rose. 

 — 1, Mr. E. Bagge, Islington Hall, Lynn; 2, Mr. J. L. Curtis ; 

 3, Miss Penrice. 



Amateurs (including nurserymen within a circuit of ten miles 

 of Wisbech). — Twenty-four varieties of Roses, one truss of each, 

 distinct. — 1, Mr. J. S. Curtis ; 2, Hon. and Rev. F. J. O. Spencer, 

 Sutton; 3, A. H. Ward, Esq., Elm. Twelve varieties of Roses, 

 one truss of each distinct kind. — 1, Mr. J. L. Curtis ; 2, Hon. 

 and Rev. F. J. 0. Spencer; 3, Mr. J. Burton, Peterborough. — H. 



A PLEA FOE FOXGLOVE CULTUEE. 



Amongst the many fine biennials that bloom at the present 

 time, there are possibly none to surpass the Foxglove for its 

 noble appearance. Planted in groups in the shrubbery, among 

 ruins, on extensive rockwork, surrounded by trees, or near 

 the flowing spring or the standing pool, it always gives a 

 charm to them, and grows equally well in sunshine or in 

 shade, in moisture or in drought ; whilst its hardiness, long- 

 flowering period, and its various colours ought to commend it 

 to all lovers of hardy flowering plants. 



It is a native plant and found growing wild in abundance 

 in some places. Fine as these are they are not to be com- 

 pared with some of the beautiful varieties in cultivation, es- 

 pecially Ivery's varieties, some of these being so beautifully 

 spotted as to compare with the choicest Gloxinias, the colours 

 varying from the purest white to purple, with several inter- 

 mediate shades of rose, rose-pink, &a. 



It is one of the easiest of plants to cultivate, being increased 

 by seed, which should be sown at once to insure good plants 

 for next year. Seed should be sown in the open ground and 

 covered slightly, the seedlings to be afterwards transplanted 

 where they are to remain for flowering. — J. B. L. 



NOTES AND GLEANINGS. 



We are requested to call attention to an error in the 



schedule of the Royal Horticultural Society at page 19, where 



it is stated among Messrs. Sutton's prizes that in the collection 



of Cucumbers and Melons there is to be a single specimen of 



the former and a brace of the latter. It ought to read — a 

 brace of the former and a single specimen of the latter. 



We have to remind our readers that Messrs. Veitch 



and Sons' ekuit phizes will be awarded at the great Exhibi- 

 bition of the Royal Horticultural Society, which is to be held 

 on the 19th. No doubt these will form a great attraction, as 

 they have always been one of the leading features of the July 

 shows. The vegetable prizes offered by Messrs. James Carter 

 and Co. will be competed for at the same exhibition. 



Some important Exhibitions are pending. The Alex- 

 andra Palace Rose Show on the 7th may be expected to be a 

 great success, seeing that it is timed when Roses generally are 

 at their beBt. Sandown Park, a new Show, falls on the same 

 day. Nottingham on the 6th (this day), is always a great show. 

 Ipswich, Frome, and Newark Shows are held on the same day, 

 and Reigate (Roses) on the 8th. Only a continuance of 

 " flower-show weather " is necessary to render these events as 

 successful and enjoyable as their promoters can deBire. 



■ We have been favoured by having a copy sent to us of 



a reprint of John Gebakd's " Catalogue of Plants," cultivated 

 in his garden in Holborn in the sixteenth century. The re- 

 print is " privately printed," and beautiful in the typography 

 and paper. A life of Gerard by the Editor, Mr. B. D. Jackson, 

 is prefixed, which includes, with some additions, the life of 

 Gerard which we took great pains to gather together and pub- 

 lish in this Journal in vol. xxviii., page 145. Oar biography 

 is accompanied by a portrait of Gerard. 



The CityFloweb Show will be held in Finsbury Oirous 



on Tuesday the 11th inst. The prizes will be distributed by 

 H.R.H. the Duchess of Teck at 2 p.m. 



We recommend to all meteokologists Mr. G. J. Symons's 



volume " On the Distribution of Rain over the British Isles 

 during 1875." It contains a mass of information besides the 

 record of observations made at eighteen hundred stations. 



Seagulls. — Having had one of these birds in our gar- 

 den for about five years, I can, from experience, state that they 

 are most valuable exterminators of those garden pests slugs, 

 &c. I would strongly recommend any of your readers to pro- 

 cure one. — Pax (in English Mechanic). 



CEYSTAL PALACE EOSE SHOW. 



June 30th. 



Rose shows have become so popular and Rose-showing has 

 been brought to such a high state of excellence, the shows 

 which have been held during past years have been so superior 

 and have merited such unmixed admiration, that a show, and 

 especially at the Crystal Palace, is invariably looked forward to 

 with great expectations. It was so last year, and the anticipations 

 were more than realised by the result ; and it was so this year, 

 but the result was unfortunately of a different character. The 

 Show was a postponed Exhibition, yet a premature one, for 

 many of the greatest growers were unable to stage blooms worthy 

 of themselves and of the varieties which they exhibited. The 

 Exhibition was not bo large as last year's grand display, and 

 its average quality was below that of the last gathering in the 

 same place. Need we say that the chilling ungenial spring has 

 set at nought the highest cultural skill and the best of manage- 

 ment in producing the Rose in full perfection ? 



At this tournament Cant was the conqneror.and set up fine 

 yet not faultless boxes. Paul & Son were not in their old 

 (Cheshunt) form. The Slough Roses were not such blooms as 

 the past has produced, and as we are sanguine the future will 

 equal. The Oxford contingent was scarcely a Princely one; and 

 even Salisbury has not been sufficiently salubrious to enable 

 Mr. Keynes to do bo well as he has done before. 



Let us now look a little more minutely, commencing with the 

 nurserymen's class for seventy-two varieties, single blooms. 

 The winners wer6 placed in the following order — Mr. Cant, 

 Colchester; Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt; and Messrs. Cran- 

 ston & Mayos, Hereford; Mr. Prince, Oxford, receiving an extra 

 prize. The Colchester Roses were aB a rule massive in petal, 

 pure, glossy, and fine, and the foliage was good. Amongst the 

 light colours Madame Lacharme was very good, Madame Bravy 

 excellent, as also was Souvenir d'Elise. Of high merit also were 

 Devoniensis, Due de Montpensier, Miss Hassard, La France, 

 Mdlle. Marie Cointet, Souvenir d'un Ami, Madame Hippolyte 

 Jamain, Madame la Baronne de Rothschild, and La Boule d'Or. 

 Of darker shades the most noticeable were La Ville de Lyon, 

 Mons. Noman, La Duchesse de Morny, Madame Fillion, Hippo- 

 lyte Jamain, Marguerite de St. Amand, Mdlle. Marie Finger, 

 Abel Grand, Nardy Freres, and PrinceEB Beatrice. The best of 

 the dark Roses were Ferdinand de LessepB, Fisher Holmes/ 

 Dupuy-Jamain, very fine ; Mdlle. Marie Rady, splendid ; Prince 

 Camille de Rohan, Baron de Bonstettin, Auguste Nieumann 



