THE ELOEAL MAGAZINE 
NEW SERIES.] 
OCTOBER, 1874. 
EXHIBITION. 
THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
At the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held 
at South Kensington on September 2nd, first class 
certificates were awarded to Messrs. Veiteh and Sons, 
for Solanum quitonense, and for Begonia Model ; to 
Mr. Bull, for CEceoclades guineensis ; to Messrs. Hen- 
derson and Sons, for Selaginella lepidophylla (the Resur- 
rection plant), and a new Red Oleander; to Mr. Keynes, 
for Dahlia John McPherson and Countess of Pem- 
broke; and to the Rev. J. B. Norman, for Odonto- 
glossum maxillare. Messrs. Veiteh and Sons also exhi- 
bited their fine orange-flowered Blumenbachia coronata, 
and Mr. Bull, Drosera glanduligera. At the same 
meeting fine collections of Gladioli, Dahlias, and Asters 
were shown, which may be all found referred to in detail 
in the horticultural papers. 
On the 29th August, a meeting of the Floral Com- 
mittee of the Royal Horticultural Society was held at 
Chiswick, for the purpose of examining the Pelargo- 
niums sent for trial. The certificates on the following 
varieties were confirmed, the Committee considering that 
they fully maintained their characters. Golden Tri- 
colours : — Macbeth and Oriental. Silver Margined : — 
Laura, Albion’s Cliff, and Brilliant Superb. Golden 
Leaved : — Crystal Palace Gem and Creed’s Seedling. 
Bronze Zonals : — Marechal MacMahon and Black 
Douglas. Rose Pinks : — Amaranth, Florence Durand, 
Mrs. Haliburton, and Cleopatra ( = Miss Davis). Scar- 
lets, Roses, and intermediate shades, including Zonals 
and Nosegays: — Warrior, Corsair, Grand Duke, H. M. 
Stanley, Milton, Soleil. Indian Yellow, Orange Bouquet: 
— Lucius, Amy Hogg, and Lady Kirkland. 
ROSES AND ROSE-SHOWS. 
The article on exhibiting Roses in the Floral Magazine 
of last month, is so nearly in accordance with my views 
of roses and rose-showing, that I am moved to say some- 
thing further on the subject. My recent display of 
roses at the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Regent’s 
Park was not worked out in opposition to existing rose- 
shows ; it was rather intended as something added to 
them, although it seems to be persistently viewed as a 
satire upon them. It is true there are things in our 
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rose-shows which I think might be bettered ; and they 
have never realized by a long way all that I think them 
capable of. But the principal ground of action with me 
was, that I wished to show to the general public what 
could be done with the rose in garden and house deco- 
ration. I have been present at most of the rose-shows 
in England from their commencement, and have long 
protested, softly or loudly, according to circumstances, 
against the crowding of the flowers into forunal boxes. 
Here is a plant possessing more natural grace than any 
of its confreres, so dealt with at our rose-shows, that the 
whole thing, aesthetically or artistically viewed, is flat, 
tiresome, and awkward. If the managers of our public 
rose-shows cannot remedy this, is there any just cause of 
anger or jealousy in a rose-grower trying to do so? The 
object of exhibitors for prizes at our rose shows is to 
produce large round flowers, arranged compactly and 
formally ; my object was to produce a display of good 
roses arranged loosely and naturally , so that the flowers 
might be seen individually surrounded with buds and 
leaves, as they appear on the tree in the garden. So 
that we start from different points of view and with dif- 
ferent objects to attain, although working in great part 
with the same materials. 
Some who have written on my Show without having 
seen it, have entirely misconceived the nature and effect 
of it. It was as different in character from the Rose 
Shows of France, in which large numbers of Roses are 
carelessly set up without regard to artistic effect as it 
was from the flat, formal, and tiresome Rose Shows of 
England. I took as my ideal the groups of Roses often 
met with in English and foreign picture galleries, rather 
than the bunches of Roses seen in the markets and in the 
streets, or the jolly fat bald flowers met with at our Rose 
Shows. 
Wm. Paul, 
Paul's Nurseries, Waltham Cross, Herts. 
HERBACEOUS CALCEOLARIAS. 
Few plants can boast of such unlimited and gorgeous 
colours as the Calceolaria. A good collection, when 
in flower, is simply magnificent; and when we know 
that from a packet of seed, costing eighteenpence or 
half- a-crown, we can get an endless variety of beautiful 
flowers, similar to those figured in the present number 
of the Floral Magazine, it is not to be wondered at that 
little attempt is made to perpetuate new varieties, how- 
