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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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the Slough stand the varieties were Countess of Rosehery, Duchess 
of Bedford, Egeria, Charles Darwin, Mrs. Harry Turner, Madame 
Morane, Harrison Weir, Jules Finger, Wilhelm Koelle, Madame 
Eugdnie Finger, Dr. Sewell, and Barthelemy Levet. The Cheshunt 
stand included Comtesse de Choisseul, Dr. Hogg, Mabel Morrison, 
Madame Julie Dymonier, and Catherine Soupert, in addition to 
several of those named above. The Devon firm showed Leon Re¬ 
nault, Duke of Teck, Madame Etienne Levet, Ferdinand Chaffolte, 
and Souvenir de Madame Robert, very fine ; Messrs. Cranston having 
Mrs. Jowitt, Boieldieu, Eliza Taisson, Edward Pynaert, and A. K. 
Williams noteworthy. For twelve single trusses of any yellow Rose 
Mr. G-. Prince of Oxford was first with a stand of good Marechal 
Niels, one of which was selected to be honoured with the Society’s 
silver medal as the best Noisette in the Exhibition. Mr. C. Davies 
followed with Marie Van Houtte in good condition ; Mr. Walters 
taking third with fair Marbchalj Niels For twelve blooms of any 
white Rose Mr. R. B. Cant was first with Devoniensis, fine ; and 
Messrs. Curtis, Sandford, & Co. second with Duchesse de Yallombrosa, 
both neat and of good size. For twelve pink Roses Messrs. Curtis, 
Sandford, it Co. were first with Francis Michelon, fine ; Mr. R. N. G. 
Baker being second with Etienne Levet, of good substance and colour ; 
Mr. R. B. Cant was third ; and in the next class for twelve crimson 
Roses was first with Alfred K. Williams, bright, full, and excellent; 
Mr. R. N. G. Baker followed with Duke of Edinburgh, very hand¬ 
some ; and Messrs. Curtis, Sandford, & Co. were third with General 
Jacqueminot, of good form and colour. For six single trusses of any 
Rose Mr. Slaughter was placed first with Belle Lyonnaise in admir¬ 
able form ; Mr. Wakeley following with Capitaine Christy. 
New H.P. Pose General Poberts .—Only one exhibitor appeared in 
the class for a seedling Rose not yet in commerce or announced— 
namely, Mr. C. Turner, who was awarded the first prize for a Hybrid 
Perpetual crimson variety named General Roberts. It is a bright- 
coloured handsome Rose of good form, somewhat resembling Charles 
Lefebvre in the build and petal, and possessing a tint suggestive of 
the Due de Wellington. 
Miscellaneous exhibits were not very abundant. Messrs. Cranston 
sent half a dozen boxes of Roses ; Mr. G. Prince of Oxford had five 
boxes of Tea and Moss Roses ; Mr. Walker, Thame, Oxon, four stands 
of Sweet Williams and Roses ; and Messrs. John Laing & Co. con¬ 
tributed a stand of Tuberous Begonia blooms. 
THE BEST BOSE IN THE SHOW. 
A well-known rosarian sends the following :—“ To find the best 
Tea Rose was a very great difficulty from an embarras de richesse. 
To find the best Noisette was equally difficult from a contrary reason. 
It was eventually found in a box of rich-coloured Marechal Niels of 
Mr. G. Prince’s, his bloom being run closely by a remarkably fine 
Caroline Kuster shown by Mr. Hawtry. 
“ But, as might be expected after 6uch a winter and such a spring, 
there was not a first-class Noisette to be found in the Exhibition. It 
will probably be submitted to the Committee whether this is not too 
small a class of Roses to be judged separately. 
“The best Tea took much consideration. Several Souvenir d’Elise 
were extremely fine—in fact, almost to coarseness. Niphetos was 
shown in greater perfection than any other of its class, no less than 
three being submitted for second consideration, Miss H. Taylor’s 
being particularly fine. Three Paul Neyrons also were at one time 
possible candidates ; but at length, in a very beautiful prize Tea box 
of Mr. C. Davies there was found the unmistakeable'queen of the 
Show—a very large most perfectly-shaped Catherine Mermet. 
“ Neither was the best Hybrid Perpetual this year easy to ascertain. 
A. K. Williams at one time seemed likely to be honoured in the splen¬ 
did twelve box from Mr. Cant, there not being another first-rate 
specimen at the Palace. Two Marie Radys appeared as its rival, both 
of a shape and colour very near to perfection, in the boxes of Mr. 
Haywood and Mr. Waterlow, the former’s only fault being a little 
want of size. The Rose eventually accepted as second was a Ma¬ 
dame G. Luizet, a comparatively new Rose with large pointed bud and 
the smoothness and gloss of delicate peach-coloured ivory* Want 
of foliage was fatal to its further pretensions, Mr. Waterlow’s Marie 
Rady being as perfect in this as all else. 
“ it was prophesied by one of our largest exhibitors that the 
Alexandra Palace Show on July 9th will be the great show of this 
season.—A. C.” 
THE BEST REMEDY FOR THE GOOSEBERRY 
CATERPILLAR. 
I have been rather amused at the alarm expressed by some 
of your contributors in case they used white hellebore powder, 
fearing they would poison themselves or their employers. I have 
employed it for more than twenty years. If auyone dusted his 
Gooseberry bushes with hellebore powder as thickly as the hedges 
of a dusty road it could all be readily washed off. I can most 
strongly recommend the following as a safe and sure remedy— 
Put 4 ozs. white hellebore powder and 2 ozs. of quassia chips 
into a two-gallon stone bottle, fill it with boiling water, shake it 
well, and allow it to become cold. Pour some of the contents 
into a basin or bucket, and with an old whitewash brush sprinkle 
it over the bushes, holding up the lower branches with a 6tick ; 
daffi some of the liquid on to the under side of the leaves. I 
have found this most efficacious, not only for Gooseberry trees, 
but also for Currants, Raspberries, and Rose-tree pests.—G. O. S. 
ANDROSACE LANUGINOSA. 
The Primula family contains a large number of beautiful and 
much-appreciated plants, which possess greatly varied claims upon 
the attention, some producing brilliantly coloured flowers, while 
others of more modest pretensions with soft-tinted flowers are yet 
recommended to notice by a charming gracefulness. Among the 
latter may be included the Androsaces ; several of which are grown 
on rockeries in British gardens, chiefly from the European Alps 
and the Pyrenees. Among those that are particularly well known 
may be mentioned A. Chamaejasme (the Bastard Jasmine), A. carnea, 
and A. lactea, the latter being particularly pleasing when grow¬ 
ing in tufts on the rockery, and bearing its pretty star-like white 
flowers in profusion. One, however, that is not too commonly 
Fig. 1 .—Androsace lanuginosa. 
seen is the Himalayan species represented in the woodcut (fig. 1) 
—namely, A. lanuginosa, the Woolly-leaved Androsace. This, 
though also dwarf, is not quite so diminutive as some of the other 
species, but it varies somewhat according to its position—that is 
to say, whether it be grown on the rockery or in a border, as is 
sometimes done with good results. It produces its soft pink 
flowers, which have a yellow centre, in close umbels, and these 
present an agreeable contrast with the white woolly leaves. The 
plant also succeeds under culture in pots, but this is notgenerallv 
advisable except to maintain the stock where there is a danger of 
losing the older plants. 
CANTERBURY ROSE SHOW. 
June 30th. 
If Farningham can boast of the picturesque surroundings of its 
Rose Show, Canterbury may equally boast that it has one of the very 
best rooms in which a Rose Show can possibly be held. Lighted 
almost entirely (except the end windows) from above, giving therefore 
to no one exhibitor above another the advantage of a good light of 
which his neighbour is deprived, and affording ample freedom of 
circulation as the stands are arranged along the sides of the room 
against the wall, it leaves nothing to be desired in this respect; and 
possessing, as the old city does, some most enthusiastic rosarians, it 
is no wonder that it has so soon acquired a name for itself, and stands 
out as a successful instance of what energy can do. 
A glance round the room before the judging commenced made it 
evident, that although many of the stands were of great excellence, 
yet on the whole the Roses were not quite equal to those of last year. 
The Rev. H. B. Biron was there as usual in good form ; and had it 
not been that it was so arranged that the medals of the National 
Roie Society could not come into the classes in which he competed, 
one at least of them would have fallen to his share, as the stand for 
