536 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EXHIBITION ROSES. 

 By George Paul, J.P., V.M.H. 



By a curious irony of fate, owing to the lateness of the season, I have not 

 been able, at this Conference, to show a solitary flower of any so-called 

 Exhibition Roses. Taking the great London shows, this has happened to 



Fio. 154.— Mr. George Paul, J.P., V.M.H. (The Garden.) 



me only twice in the forty-two years during which I have exhibited in the 

 chief class. 



The Exhibition Rose is a modern product, although its introduction is 

 not quite within the recollection of any living horticulturist. Its history 

 covers the lives of three generations of Rose nurserymen, of whom I am 

 in my own case the third, as Messrs. Rivers, Lane, and Wood, with my 

 grandfather, Adam Paul, were among the first exhibitors of Roses. 



