tea-rose show, junk 23. 



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d'Auguste Riviere produced a deep rose-purple variety (R. 55), 

 and Rosa lucida with the Sweet Briar brought out white flowers 

 tinged at the tips with pale rose (0. G3). Lord Penzance also 

 exhibited the fine old Rose Fortune's Yellow from a N.E. wall, 

 and the old double yellow Rosa sulphurea. The trusses of the 

 former were remarkably beautiful and greatly admired. Messrs. 

 Paul & Son, Cheshunt, had a box of Rosa rugosa varieties, 

 and such species as De Meaux, pomifera, Sweet Briar, Janet's 

 Pride (a charming variety), rubrifolia, Domeril, Boccard, White 

 Burgundy, Copper Austrian, and several of the Scotch Roses. 



ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S DINNER. 



The same evening the Society held a dinner in the Whitehall 

 Rooms of the Hotel Metropole, the President (Sir Trevor Law- 

 rence, Bart., M.P.) taking the chair. Among the guests w T ere 

 the Greek Minister, the Earl of Rosse, Lord Justice Fry, Baron 

 Schroder, Sir James Paget, Sir Joseph Lister, Sir Henry Thomp- 

 son, Mr. Sheriff Farmer, Mr. Brymer, M.P., Dr. Farquharson, 

 M.P., General Donnelly, C.B., Mr. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 

 Sir J. T. D. Llewelyn, Mr. Martin R. Smith, Mr. W. T. Thisel- 

 ton Dyer, F.R.S., C.M.G., Professor Michael Foster (Secretary of 

 the Royal Society), Dr. Stewart (President of the Linnean Society), 

 Dr. Hogg, Mr. T. B. Haywood, Mr. Philip Crowley, F.L.S., &c. 

 The toast of the " Ministers of Foreign Countries " was coupled 

 with the name of the Greek Minister. Sir James Paget pro- 

 posed the " Royal Horticultural Society," which Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence acknowledged. Professor Foster proposed " Botanical 

 Science," coupled with the names of Lord Justice Fry and Dr. 

 Stewart. Another toast was the " Treasurer and Benchers of 

 the Inner Temple," and Sir Joseph Lister responded for the 

 visitors. 



