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JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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varieties of old Roses, which would have gladdened the heart of 

 the Marquis of Ente, who once gave a prize at Hereford for such 

 old varieties. The stand was exquisitely grouped, and con- 

 tained varieties, now seldom seen, of the old Austrian Briar in 

 three shades, the white and pink Provence, the old red indica, 

 the yellow, orange, and pink Persian, the old Maiden's Blush, 

 several varieties of the old Moss, China, &c. The class locally 

 restricted was neither as well filled or exhibited as doubtless 

 will be on future occasions, as the prize list is liberal. Next 

 year a larger prize to nurserymen in the open class would 

 attract the Rose chiefs of a distance and be of mutual advantage, 

 as the county of Salop is admirably adapted for Rose culture, 

 and as yet little has been enterprised. 



The only remark to be made in concluding this sketch is to 

 congratulate the Committee and Mr. Salwey, the courteous 

 Hon. Sec, in particular, on the success of their very excellent 

 Exhibition, and to suggest that on a future occasion it be held 

 in the grounds of Ludlow Castle, a locality that would lend 

 wonderful enchantment to the scene from its natural picturesque- 

 ness, from its association as formerly a Royal residence, and 

 from its being the favoured spot where Milton wrote his 

 " Comus." — The Hebefokdshere Incumbent. 



THE BUEGHLEY YELLOW ROSE. 



I shall only feel too happy to tell your correspondent 

 " South Lincoln " the best way I know to flower the Burghley 

 Rose. If your correspondent grows fruit trees on the wall of his 

 garden, I would advise him to procure good layers of this Rose 

 and plant them between the trees, but not to forget the larder. 

 When established this Rose grows something like Marechal 

 Niel, from 10 to IS feet in a summer. Grow-up a single stem 

 between the treep, and when it reach'es to the top of the wall 

 train it along it, and when the dark days of winter set in 

 take the Rose away from the wall and tie it to the Pear or 

 Plum spurs. This will effectually preserve it from the frost. 

 When the fruit trees are in flower the Roses will be showing, 

 and the fruit blossoms keep it warm and comfortable. In due 

 time you will see the yellow buds of the Rose peering through 

 the green leaves, which add the necessary shade and all oomes 

 perfeot. Many people wonder at the green eyes which the 

 Marechal shows when exposed to a powerful sun all day and 

 a frost at night, but if they think a wee the reason is simple 

 enough. I may add that no letters of thanks are needed, I 

 have so many from " the Royal " that they have become com- 

 mon. — R. Gilbert. 



[We have inquiries whether the Burghley Yellow will grow 

 and flower if budded on the Briar. Will Mr. Gilbert oblige by 

 informing us if he has adopted that mode of culture ? — Eds.] 



CLIFTON EOSE SHOW. 



A very pretty little Rose Show was held at Clifton on the 

 12th inst., whicn was successful in every way. It was held in 

 the gardens of the Zoological Society, and a prettier place for 

 such a show cannot beimagined. The prizes, particularly for 

 amateurs, were very poor, but that did not prevent a large and 

 goodly muster of rosarians. 



Among the nurserymen were Mr. Keynes of Salisbury, Mr. 

 Cranston of Hereford, Mr. Corp of Oxford, Mr. Durbin of Bath, 

 Mr. Bennett of Stapleford, and Mr. Curtis of Torquay, so that 

 the nurserymen's classes were well filled, and if no other ex- 

 hibitors had been there, still a good exhibition of Roses would 

 have been the result. But when to these are added the names 

 of such amateurs aB Mr. Baker of Heavitree, Mr. Jowitt of 

 Exeter, Mr. Davis of Wilton, Mr. Chard of Clarendon Park, 

 and a host of others, you may imagine that there was no lack of 

 Roses. The nurserymen filled one tent and the amateurs another, 

 and it was very interesting to compare the effects of the stands 

 in the one with the other, and to see in what one section failed 

 and the others suoceeded. 



There was no class for seventy-two distinct varieties, the 

 highest olass for nurserymen beiDg the one for forty-eight 

 trebles, and for this three exhibitors staged. Mr. Keynes won 

 the first prize very easily, but his blooms were not, in my opinion, 

 quite up to his old standard ; but then we are getting late on 

 in the season. Mr. Cranston was second and Mr. Curtis third. 

 Mr. Keynes showed a treble of La Rosiere, a new Rose, which 

 I admired at the Crystal Palace, but here it was only a poor 

 Camille de Rohan or Souvenir de Dr. Jamin. He had several 

 good trebles of Teas, and most of his blooms were clean and 

 even, but a little undersized. He showed also a good treble of 

 that diffioult Rose to open Black Prince. For twenty-four 

 trebles confined to Bristol nurserymen four candidates put in 

 an appearance, and a more miserable lot than the generality of 

 the blooms I never judged. Mr. Durbin's were a long way the 

 best, but he spoilt his box by putting a treble in the back row of 



such a wretched Rose as Abbfi Bramerel, and one or two more 

 flat and coarse blooms also were sad eyesores ; but the other 

 Bristol nurserymen would have been wiser to have kept their 

 blooms at home than to have made such an exhibition as they 

 did. I do not at all approve of these close classes, and wish 

 secretaries and committees would set their faces against them. 

 Often and often have I Been money positively thrown away, the 

 exhibits being quite unworthy of a prize, but the committee 

 feeling compelled to award them prizes. 



For the class for twenty-four distinct Roses (nurserymen) 

 there was great competition, for eight good stands were staged, 

 and we had no light task to decide on the Becond and third prizes. 

 Mr. Corp of Oxford won the first prize with a splendid box. 

 To my thinking this stand was by far the best in the Show. He 

 had marvellous oolour, good form, freshness, and indeed all 

 good qualities which a Rose can possess. His most remarkable 

 blooms were the novelties Margaret Brassac and Mons. E. T. 

 Teas. His CharleB Lefebvre also was the best I have seen this 

 year. Here we saw the Rose as described by "D., Deal," as he 

 saw it at Okeford Fitzpaine ; each petal shaded with velvet, and 

 the form pure centifolia. He had also a grand bloom of Marie 

 Baumann ; indeed, his stand was very like what we have been 

 accustomed to see Mr. Baker show. Hercules was once more 

 first for twenty-four and twelve trebles, and very fine they were, 

 but perhaps a little overpast. The TeaB were exceedingly 

 good, and altogether it was a very successful Show. — Wyld 

 Savage. 



EOSES IN HAMPSHIRE. 

 I have noticed just now very general complaints of the 

 present year (1877) being a late and bad year for the queen of 

 flowers. This I am forced to concede must be generally the 

 case. I went to the Crystal Palace Show, hoping to be very 

 much pleased; I came away disappointed. I venture to record 

 my experience. I am an amateur, living in Hampshire with- 

 in a mile of the Solent, on a soil light and gravelly 1 foot or 

 18 inches deep; subsoil a hungry, open, clean gravel or shingle, 

 one that you would almost think it hopeless to grow Roses in. 

 I have nevertheless attempted it, and succeeded sufficiently 

 well to induce me to continue the enterprise. I have about 

 250 Roses in my garden, principally on the Briar and Manetti 

 stocks, but some few on their own roots. I have none on the 

 Maiden Briar. 



With the soil as described above, as may be expected, the 

 Manetti answers best, care of course having to be taken to 

 eradicate shoots from the stock, which it is very apt to make, 

 and which if allowed to remain growing will in a short time 

 very much weaken if not destroy the scion. The Briar loving 

 a stiff loamy soil has not succeeded so well. The same may 

 be said of self-rooted Roses, which like a rich loam. 



This season has been with me excellent. I never had such 

 a number of good blooms ; without any special cultivation I 

 could have brought a case which I should not have been 

 ashamed of exhibiting against the smaller amateurs at the 

 Crystal Palace. I send a few extracts from my garden memo- 

 randa for this year (1877) : — May 16th, Yellow Banksian in 

 bloom; 19th, Pink China in bloom; 25th, cut Devoniensis and 

 John Hopper; 28th, cut Gloire de Dijon, John Hopper, Devo- 

 niensis, and Lord Clyde; June 3rd, cut Charles Lefebvre; 

 June 9th, splendid show of Climbing Devoniensis, Gloire de 

 Dijon, John Hopper, Charles Lefebvre, Lord Clyde, and Duke of 

 Wellington — several exhibition biooms; June loth, 105 blooms 

 of above in front of house, besides a profusion of buds, blooms 

 to a large extent having been previouslj cut. 



Since the above date I have had a magnificent show of 

 Roses all blooming together, so much so that I have remarked 

 to many of my friends that I have been much better pleased 

 with the show of Roses in my own garden than with that at 

 the Crystal Palace. I do not profess to obtain every new Rose 

 as it comes out. I am satisfied with such as Charles Lefebvre, 

 Climbing Devoniensis, John Hopper, Madame Lacharme, Jules 

 Margottin, Prince Camille de Rohan, Baroness Rothschild, La 

 France, and Roses of that character. I have had perfect 

 pictures of dwarf bushes on the Manetti of "the Baroness," 

 Fisher Holmes, Duke of Edinburgh, General Jacqueminot, and 

 Madame Lacharme, a dozen perfect flowers expanding at once 

 in some instances. I take it that the true aim of a cultivator 

 of flowers should be to select those which are good and to 

 grow them well, so as to please the eye, not to run about col- 

 lecting plants the same or nearly so as those that have come 

 before, distinctions without a difference, multiplying names 

 with scarcely any variation of flower. The culture I have 

 adopted is this : I manure highly with stable manure a year 

 oi two previous to planting, cut back hard annually in March 



