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JOUENAL OF HOETIGULTUEE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ Jnly 13, 1871. 



a great consideration where the tubers are wanted for table, 

 and the ground the Potatoes are oeeupying is required for other 

 purposes. With regard to the above trial, therefore, the non- 

 earthing system was the more satisfactory. 



I am of opinion that in general the non-earthing system is 

 preferable for all early varieties, both as regards quality and 

 productiveness, with the additional merit of being fit for table 

 a week or ten days earlier as a rule, and, of course, a certain 

 amount of labour is saved, which to market-growers is a con- 

 sideration ; but for all main crops, which are supposed to re- 

 main in the ground till late in the autumn, I should consider 

 it advisable to earth-up, as the Potatoes which would form in 

 the ridges would lie much drier than on the level. This, in a 

 wet season, would act as a preventive against disease, second 

 growth, fee., without mentioning the convenience at lifting 

 time.— P. D. 



NOTES ON KOSES : HEREFORD, NEWARK, 

 AND MANCHESTER. 



Having, after judging at Nottingham, been to judge also at 

 . Hereiord, Newark, and Manchester, I send you a few notes on 

 the Eoses, which may prove of some interest to your readers. 



The Show at Hereford was good, especially among the ama- 

 teurs, who came out in great force, especially Mr. E. N. Baker, 

 who has already been so successful at the Crystal Palace and 

 elsewhere. The Eev. G. Arkwright, the Bev. J. B. M. Camm, 

 Mr. C. N. Newdegate, and the Eev. J. M. Smythe were also 

 exhibitors of very good stands of Eoses, though Mr. Baker was 

 facile princeps, taking first honours in each class he exhibited 

 in. Among the nurserymen, Messrs. Paul & Son were first, 

 Mr. J. Keynes second, and Mr, G. Davison, of Hereford, third. 

 Mr. Cranston was not able to exhibit for competition, but 

 staged some very fine blooms at the orchestra end of the room. 

 Noticeable among the older Eoses were Annie Wood, Marie 

 Baumann, Beauty of Waltham, Triomphe de Esnnes, Savier 

 Olibo, Franijois Lonvat, and La France. These were shawn by 

 Messrs. Paul & Son, who also exhibited the very best Miss 

 Ingram I have ever seen. Mr. J. Keynes exhibited very good 

 examples of ManriceBernardin, Madame Vigneron, Mrs. Charles 

 "Wood. Souvenir d'nn Ami, Madame Willermoz, La France, 

 and Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier. In Mr. Baker's stand were very 

 fine specimens of Paul Verdier, Dr. Andry, Mdlle. Marie Eady, 

 President Willermoz, and Antoine Ducher. Mr, Camm had 

 very fine ones of Vicomtesse de Vezins, Paul Neron, Centifolia 

 rosea, Abel Grand, and Lord Napier. 



Among the new Eoses were good examples of M. Liabaud, 

 Louis Van Houtte, Prince of Wales, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Mar- 

 quise de Lignerie, Annie Laxton, A^gnste Neumann, Madame 

 Creyton, Nardy Fieies, and Edward Morren. 



A very noticeable feature in the exhibition were two boxes of 

 twenty-four blooms — one of Centifolia rosea, exhibited by 

 Paul & Son, another of Li France by Mr. Keynes ; they were so 

 evenly balanced in point of merit that they were awarded equal 

 first. 



The competition at Newark was chiefly confined to local 

 nurserymen and amateurs, but very good blooms were exhi- 

 bited by Messrs. Merryweather, of Southwell, and Mr. Fretting- 

 ham, of Beeston. The Eev. S. E. Hole exhibited a good stand 

 of thirty-six, though, owing to the weather, not quite up to his 

 usual mark. The same may be said of the Eoses shown by the 

 Eev. N. Pochin, and it was an exceedingly close contest between 

 Mr. Hole and Mr. Pochin for the first prize in thirty-six, Mr. 

 Hole eventually winning by the superior merit of some of the 

 first blooms, especially Madame Fartado, Souvenir d'un Ami, 

 and Marquise de Mortemart. Mr. Pochin's stand was so good 

 that, as there was no third prize awarded, the Judges recom- 

 mended the Committee to add the value of the third prize to 

 the second. Many of the Eoses exhibited showed signs of the 

 severity of the spring frosts, which have been very prevalent 

 in Nottinghamshire. 



The competition among amateurs, especially in twelves and 

 sixes, was very close; and the Rev. C. G.Ellison, of Eracebridge, 

 showed an exceedingly good stand of eighteen blooms, very 

 fresh both in colour and foliage. I will not attempt to enume- 

 rate the sorts exhibited, as it is only a repetition of names. 



From Newark I went to judge at the first Rose Show at 

 Manchester, which, considering the season, may be put down 

 as a great success, although there were very few exhibitors from 

 the north. Mr. George Paul {Paul & Son) carried everything 

 before him in the nurserymsn's classes, and I have seldom seen 

 better blooms. Mr. Mitchell also showed some very good 



blooms, one of John Hopper being the best of that sort I 

 have ever seen in any stand. There was a close competition 

 among the amateurs in the thirty-sixes, the Eev. G. Arkwright 

 being placed first, and the Eev. S. E. Hole third. The Eev. 

 S. R. Hole was first for twenty-fours and twelves. 



There were some very nice ball-room bouquets and bridal 

 bouquets of Eoses exhibited, although some showed the com- 

 mon failure of being too large. The first-prize bridal bouquet 

 was exceedingly good, made up with great taste, and not too 

 large, although some might object to the use of pink Moss 

 Rose buds ; but a slight amount of colour helps, in my opinion, 

 to relieve the dead white of ordinary bridal bouquets. 



The collection of new Roses exhibited by Messrs. Paul & Son 

 was especially good ; and a stand of twenty-four blooms of 

 Comtesse d'Oxford shows that it will be a great acquisition. 

 On the whole, the best new Eoses of the last two years I have 

 seen are Mdlle. EugSnie Verdier, Comtesse d'Oxford, Marquise 

 de Mortemart, Marquise de Castellane, Auguste Neumann, very 

 dark ; Nardy Fieres, the best purpUsh-crimson I have yet seen; 

 Ferdinand de Lesseps, Edward Morren, Dupuy-Jamin, a very 

 fine-shaped Rose, large, with smooth petals, something like 

 Alfred Colomb, but with more violet ; Princess Christian ; 

 Madame Liabaud, an improved Virginal ; La Motte Sanguine, 

 fine in colour, but rather irregular in outline ; and Louis Van 

 Houtte, nearly the colour of the old Dae de Gazes, but a finer 

 Rose. Of these I no hesitation in recommenr'ing the first 

 four — Nardy Fibres, Dupuy-Jamin, Madame Liabaud, andLouis 

 Van Houtte. 



Of older Eoses which have been particularly good this year 

 La France stands first, then John Hopper, Baroness Rothschild, 

 Alfred Colomb, Charles Lefebvre, Madame Theiese Levet, 

 Marechal Vaillant, Paul Verdier, Centifolia rosea, Abel Grand, 

 Duke of Edinburgh, fine in colour, but rather irregular, nearly 

 always quartered this year ; and Dr. Andry. Messrs. Paul 

 exhibited some very fine blooms of Marie Baumann at Man- 

 chester, but otherwise I have not seen it so often exhibited as 

 last year.— G. P. Peach. 



HORTICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AT THE 

 NOTTINGHAM EXHIBITION. 



" The true epic of our time is, not arms and tlie man, but tools and 

 the man, an infinitely wider kind of epic." — T. Carhjle. 



The great success which has attended the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society's Show at Nottingham induces me to ask, through 

 your valuable Journal, whether the Council would adopt on 

 the next occasion some better method in the arrangement of 

 goods in that portion of the ground set apart for trade ? It is 

 scarcely in keeping with the high purposes for which the Royal 

 Horticultural Show is held, that the visitor on entering finds 

 himself in the midst of a fancy bazaar, and that the principal 

 approaches to the grand marquee are lined with booths, similar 

 to those we see on fair days in market towns. None but the 

 most persevering of sight-seers would be likely to see anything 

 beyond this in the trade ground. The manufacturers of imple- 

 ments, tools, and apparatus used in horticulture ought to be 

 recognised by the Council, as having a claim to a constant and 

 prominent place at the Show. There is no need to exclude 

 other trades, but it is by no means necessary that dealers and 

 manufacturers of goods having no special interest to the horti- 

 cultural world, should monopolise the best places. Next in 

 point of attraction to the show of plants and fruit, come the 

 implements and apparatus used in the garden. They have 

 contributed some share, however humble, to the great triumphs 

 of the horticulturist. It would but be in agreement with the 

 proper fitness of things, if the principal avenue tp the marquee 

 were set apart for the use of manufacturers and their repre- 

 sentatives ; then let the sellers of agricultural implements and 

 miscellaneous goods take the second and third places. Of 

 course, if it is absolutely necessary to the prosperity of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society that the vendors of toys and the retaUers 

 of beer should have the most prominent positions in the trade 

 ground, by all means let them have it. No one, however, who 

 saw the thousands that poured into the Park en each day of 

 the Show would suppose that it stood in need of any such 

 support. 



A manufacturer does not attend the Show merely to make 

 sales. That branch of trade is now permanently established, 

 and there is always ample stock in the hands of agents to meet 

 the wants of the public. It is the only time during the year, 

 and for that district in several years, that he has the oppor- 



