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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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petition in these classes was good throughout. Cottagers staged 
garden produce of great excellence, and the contributions of wild 
flowers and grasses by school children were very meritorious. The 
Show was excellently managed by Mr. Rolt, the able Secretary, and 
the members of the Committee, and was altogether both enjoyable 
and successful. 
CROTON SINITZINIANUS. 
Among the new Crotons with narrow leaves this appears likely 
to obtain a high position, for when in good condition it is scarcely 
surpassed in elegance of habit. To render it most effective, 
however, the yellow and dark green tints in the leaves require to 
be well and clearly developed, or there is a slight approach to 
dulness in the appearance of the plant. The introducers, Messrs. 
Veitch & Son, Chelsea, have favoured us with the accompanying 
woodcut, which faithfully represents the characters of the plant 
as it has been shown at various metropolitan exhibitions, when 
certificates have been awarded for it. The firm also gives the 
following particulars concerning it:—“An elegant variety, kindly 
sent to us by Sir William Macarthur, of Camden Park, near 
Sydney, New South Wales. The plant is of very light and 
pleasing aspect. The leaves are narrowly lanceolate, gracefully 
arching and variable, some with interruptions, others with the 
blade spirally twisted two or three times round the midrib at the 
middle ; others again crisped and undulated. In colour they are 
deep olive green variegated with straw yellow, which is constant. 
It is one of the best of Crotons for table decoration. We have 
much pleasure in dedicating this elegant plant to Monsieur Peter 
Sinitzin, an accomplished Russian amateur.” 
CARDIFF ROSE SHOW. 
One of the latest adhesions to the cause of the Rose has been the 
flourishing town of Cardiff, and thus her majesty has been able to 
assert her sovereignty in the principality. A Society has been started 
under the most favourable auspices ; and although most of those who 
exhibited had never seen a Rose show before and knew nothing of 
the quality of flowers required to win success, yet as a first attempt 
it may be regarded as a success, and an indication has been given of 
future progress. The Exhibition was held in the Drill Hall, a grand 
building for the purpose, with the light from above and abundance 
of room for moving about. The flowers were arranged on two long 
tables running the entire length of the room ; in fact rather too much 
space had been allowed, but this and other matters will no doubt be 
rectified at the next Exhibition of the Society. The principal exhi¬ 
bitors were amongst nurserymen the Cranston Company from Here¬ 
ford ; and amongst amateurs Mr. Pettigrew, gardener to the Marquis 
of Bute, Cardiff Castle, and Mr. Crossley, gardener to Lord Windsor 
at St. Fagan’s. There were many other exhibitors, but the stands 
exhibited by them far surpassed any others. 
The Cranston Company, as might have been expected, being near 
home exhibited some very fine flowers, notwithstanding that their 
own Show at Hereford was held on the same day, their immense 
stock enabling them to compete at both successfully. In the stand for 
thirty-six blooms, in which they gained the first prize, were excellent 
flowers of Madame Charles Wood, Fisher Holmes, Eugbnie Yerdier, 
Perle des Jardins, Comtesse d’Oxford, Exposition de Brie, Madame 
Yidot, a Rose rarely seen on the exhibition table; Horace Vernet, 
Niphetos, Hippolyte Jamain, Marie Guillot, a very beautiful Tea; 
Annie Laxton, Auguste Neumann, Lord Macaulay, Edouard Morren, 
Mons. Boncenne, and Souvenir d’Elise. Mr. J. Tresider of the Ely 
Road Nursery was second. In the class of twenty-four trebles the 
