December 19, 1872. ] 



JOURNAL. OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



485 



WEEKLY CALENDAR. 



Day 

 of 



Month. 



19 

 20 

 21 



Day 

 of 



Week. 



DECEMBER 19—25, 1S72. 



Meeting of Linnean Society, 3 P.il. 



Th 



F 



S I Shortest Day. 



Sun 4 Sunday in Advent. 



M 



Tu 



W Christmas Day. 



Average Tempera- 

 ture near London. 



Rain in 

 43 years. 



Dav. 

 45.1 

 44.1 

 44.1 

 45.0 

 44.1 

 44.0 

 43.4 



Night. 



32.5 

 33.6 

 34.0 

 32.5 

 31.7 

 31.3 

 29.4 



Mean. 

 39.5 

 3S.9 

 39.0 

 33.7 

 37.9 

 37.6 

 36.4 



Days. 

 16 

 16 

 17 

 21 

 21 

 17 



Sun 



RiseB. 



al. h. 



5 af8 



5 8 



6 8 

 8 



7 8 

 7 8 

 7 8 



Sun 

 Sets. 



m. h. 



51 af3 



52 3 



52 3 



53 3 



53 3 



54 8 



55 3 



Moon 

 Rises. 



m. h. 



14 8 



24 9 



34 10 



44 11 

 morn. 



54 



8 2 



Moon 

 Sets. 



m. h. 



24 11 



44 11 

 after. 



12 



26 



40 



55 



Age. 



Clock 



after 



Day 

 of 



Sun. iYear. 



Days. 

 19 

 20 

 21 

 22 

 ( 

 24 



m. s 

 2 26 



56 

 26 



before 

 34 



354 

 355 

 356 

 357 

 358 

 359 

 360 



From observations taken near London during forty-three years, the average day temperature of the week is 44.3° ; audits night temperature 

 s. Tk.<n™i»«t.ii«it™»!K'.nii the 35th. 1R27: nnd the lowest cold 4 : , on the 24th, I860. The greatest fall of rain was 1.1a men. 



32.1°. The greatest heat was 5S°, on the 25th, 1827 ; and the lowest cold 4°, on the 



ELECTION OF BOSES.— No. 1. 



W M^MhK ^^ ^^ me k as arrived for the declaration of 

 ^wSlPo *ke poll, and I proceed to lay before your 

 ' readers the results. In the first place, a 

 word of apology is due from myself. Had 

 I considered that the Strawberry election 

 would have been completed so soon I should 

 have left the matter in the able hands of 

 Mr. Peach, but having undertaken it, I have j 

 £f«} tried to make it as complete as possible, j 



For all omissions and apparent lack of i 

 courtesy in not acknowledging letters, &c, I must also j 

 apologise ; my little spare time has been thoroughly occu- 

 pied. I trust that all who have helped rne will accept 

 my grateful acknowledgments now for then - assistance. 

 Some who assisted Mr. Peach last year were disposed to 

 consider this election as antagonistic to his ; this was far 

 from my thoughts, and I was able to disabuse their 

 minds. To Mr. Peach himself my thanks are eminently 

 due, for he kindly placed at my disposal Ms last year's 

 lists as a guide. Of those who replied to him, Mr. C. J. 

 Perry, of Castle Bromwich, is the only absentee ; the 

 Eev. P. M. Smythe has passed away to a better country. 

 Possibly I ought to apologise for the number of returns 

 from Warminster. The fact is, most of us have a " soft 

 place " in the matter of Roses, and we have for years 

 kept a little amateur Rose Society going, and hold an 

 annual exhibition. I may speak for those who have 

 replied from this county, they know something about 

 Roses— know what a good Bose should be, and can grow 

 them, in spite of a rather bleak district and a not-too- 

 kindly soil, and I think their opinions valuable. 



I propose analysing the best fifty Boses first. Believing 

 that it would greatly add to the interest of this elec- 

 tion, I have kept it distinct as between nurserymen and 

 amateurs. 



Column a denotes the number of times a Bose has 

 been placed in the first twelve by amateurs ; column B 

 the number of times in the next thirty-eight by amateurs ; 

 column c the total number of amateur votes for any Bose. 

 The same letters with an asterisk attached* show the 

 voting for the same Bose by nurserymen. The remain- 

 ing column denotes the combined votes of both parties. 



The number in the first column before the name of the 

 Bose denotes its position. When two or more Boses 

 have the same number of votes, I have decided then- 

 position by the number of votes each has obtained in the 

 first twelve, Where the votes are still equal the Roses 

 are bracketed together, having one figure only before 

 the bracket. With this explanation they tell their own 

 tale. 



Name of Rose. 



A 



Charles Lefehvre 26 



Marechal Niel 24 



Alfred Colomb ! 22 



Madame Rothschild ! 23 



John Hopper I 16 



La Franco ; 22 



No. 612.— Vol. XXLL, New Semes. 



B 



C 



A* 



E* 



C* 



1 



27 



14 



1 



15 



2 



26 



13 



2 



15 



4 



26 



13 



2 



15 



3 



26 



12 



3 



15 

 14 

 15 I 



11 



27 



4 



10 



3 



25 



12 



o 



42 

 41 

 41 

 41 

 41 

 40 



7 

 S 

 9 

 10 

 11 

 12 



14 



15 



16 



17 



18 



19 



20 



21 



fc2 



28 



24 



25 



26 



27 



2S 



29 



30 



31 



31a 



32 



33 



S4{ 



35 



36 



87 -I 



39 

 40- 

 41 

 42- 



Name of Rose. 



46 



47 { 



48 

 49 

 50 



59 



Marie Baumann 



Comtesse d'Oxford 



Marquise de Castellaue 



Senateur Vaisse 



Pierre Notting 



Duke of Edinburgh 



Louis Van Houtte 



Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier 



Madam e Victor Verdier 



Gloire de Dijon 



Mdlle. Marie Rady 



Marguerite de St. Am and 



Devoniensis 



Edward Morren 



Xavier Olibo 



Dr. Andry 



Victor Verdier 



Exposition de Brie 



Comtesse de Chabrillant 



Dupuy- Jamain 



Abel Grand 



Emilie Hausburg 



Souvenir d'un Ami 



Prince Camille de Rohan 



Ferdinand de Lesseps 



Madame Clemence Joigneaux. 



Souvenir de la Malraaison . . . 



Monsieur Noman 



Jules Margottin 



Paul Neron 



Fisher Holmes 



Princess Mary of Cambridge . 



Maurice Bernardin 



Camille Bernardin 



Beauty of Waltham 



Mrs. Charles Wood 



Duchesse de Caylus 



Centifolia rosea 



Lord Macaulay 



General Jacqueminot 



Madame Vidot 



Due de Rohan 



Horace Vemet 



Elie Morel 



Felix Genera 



Mdlle. Annie Wood 



Due de Wellington 



Antoine Ducher 



Marquise de Mortemart .... 



Celine Forestier 



Souvenir d'Elise 



Mdlle. Therese Levet 



Marechal Vaillant 



Madame Willermoz 



Louise Peyronny 



Hippolyte Flandrin 



Triomphe de Rennes 



Anna de Diesbach 



Duchesse de Morny 



Niphetos 



Mdlle. M. Dombrain 



Mdlle. Bonnaire 



Madame Charles Crapelet . . 



Madame Rivers 



Gloire de Vitry 



Leopold I 



Francois Lacharme 



Catherine Mermefc 



La Ville de St. Denis 



Reine du Midi 



Sophie Coquerel 



Belle Lyonnaise 



Madame Caillat 



Clemence Raoux 



Madame Boutin 



Alba Rosea 



Baronne Haussman 



Boule de Niege 



Duchesse d'Orleaus 



Madame Fillion 



Madame Alice Dureau 



Perfection de Lyon 



25 12 



24 



26 



26 



26 



7 

 9 

 9 

 10 

 5 

 10 

 12 

 4 



1 j 12 

 10 

 8 

 12 

 10 



1" 



39 



87 

 35 

 85 

 34 

 34 

 34 

 33 

 33 

 33 

 31 

 30 

 27 



24 

 24 

 24 

 23 

 23. 

 22 

 22 

 22 

 21 

 21 

 21 

 20 

 19 

 19 

 19 

 18 

 18 

 17 



6 17 

 17 

 16 

 16 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 14 

 14 

 13 

 IS 

 13 

 13 

 12 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 

 10 



9 

 5 

 8 

 5 

 4 

 6 

 6 



! 



7 

 5 

 2 

 7 

 3 

 1 

 2 

 6 

 5 

 4 

 4 



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