JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
July 14, 1881. ] 
of manurial matter which render soils noxious, but acid and 
other matters seldom fail to accumulate unless the soil is cleansed 
by water and air. Aerated soils are seldom noxious, and nothing 
secures the aeration of soils compared with waterings if the soils 
are properly drained. As the rain fills the pores of the soil the 
air it contains is driven out; as the water drains off the air follows, 
and thus is renewed. The air as well as the rain is generally 
warmer than the soil, and they therefore warm it. When it does 
not pass through but stagnates instead, sourness, coldness, and 
generally unwholesomeness is the result.— Single-handed. 
HORSHAM ROSE SHOW. 
The fact of the heavy thunderstorm rain of July 5th not having 
reached this district was rather a disadvantage to the Horsham ex¬ 
hibitors, watering being comparatively at such a time of very little 
use. Notwithstanding, the Show was a fairly good one. The honours 
of the day belonged distinctly to Mr. A. Slaughter, who, amongst 
other first prizes, obtained that for twelve Teas, the box being also 
the best in the Show, and thus gaining the National Eose Society’s 
silver medal, and also containing a Eose, Madame Lambard, which 
obtained of itself the Society’s bronze medal as being the best Eose 
in the Show. 
Probably very considerable difficulty was experienced in comparing 
Hybrid Perpetuals with Teas ; the best of the former was unmis- 
takeably a large Marie Baumann in Mr. Sharp’s box of six of the same 
kind. Mr. Mawley exhibited an A. K. Williams of considerable 
merit. Mr. Slaughter obtained a second prize for twelve of any kind, 
showing very fine Baronne de Eothschild, Camille de Eohan, and 
Comtesse de Serenye, being only surpassed by an almost faultless box 
shown by Mrs. Henry Padwick, in which were splendid specimens of 
Etienne Levet, Paul Neyron, Prince Camille de Eohan, and Duchesse 
de Yallombrosa. In the open class of twenty-four Mr. Piper was 
first, and Mr. Brown of Eeigate a very good second ; in the open 
twelve class Mr. Mawley of Croydon was first; in the eighteen of 
the Society Mr. Sharp obtained a first; in the open twelve Hybrid 
Perpetual class Mr. Piper’s liberal prizes, for Eoses to be selected 
from his catalogue, were gained by the Eev. A. Cheales and Mr. 
Graveley of Cowfold. The coolness of the day contributed to the 
excellent appearance of the Eoses, and contrasted agreeably with 
the oppressive heats of the earlier part of the week. 
It is to be regretted that this spirited and liberally conducted 
Society does not receive either the local or county support to which 
it is entitled. The attendance during the afternoon was very scanty. 
—A. C. 
DAY’S EARLY SUNRISE PEA. 
Will any readers of the Journal who have grown this Pea be 
good enough to state their experience with it 1 There are a great 
number of people, myself among the number, who cannot afford 
to try all the novelties the first year of their introduction, but 
wait with much anxiety for information which that year affords. 
The second year’s sale of a new vegetable, if it is of proved ex¬ 
cellence, is always great, and if the price is slightly lower it is a 
great advantage to many purchasers and no loss to the vendors. 
I have heard an excellent account of the Pea in question from a 
friend who has seen it growing ; and another friend who has par¬ 
taken of a dish states that it is a very good Pea, but not better 
than William I. nor quite so early ; yet another informant states 
it is finer than William I. in appearance, but not quite so good in 
quality, while there is no difference in the two varieties as to the 
period of use. This evidence is a little conflicting and not quite 
satisfactory, and I feel sure a record of the practice of cultivators 
would be welcome to many.— Clericus. 
EEIGATE ROSE SHOW. 
In the Priory, one of the prettiest places where places of that 
character abound, by the kindness of Lady Hay Somers the Eeigate 
Show was held this year on Tuesday last, the 5th inst., which we are 
told, and which indeed we hardly need to be told, was one of the 
hottest days we have experienced for the last twenty years—as much 
in the extreme of heat as was that awful Tuesday in January in the 
extreme of cold. It may be readily imagined, as the Exhibition was 
held in a tent, that it was very trying for the flowers, and long before 
the Show was over they must have been quite jmssee; but in the 
morning, when the Judges went round, they were very fine—indeed, 
how can it be otherwise when Eeigate possesses such keen lovers of 
the Eose and such successful exhibitors as Mr. Baker, Mr. Haywood, 
Mr. Wollaston, Mr. Sargent, Mr. Waterlow, and Mr. Pawle, who have 
mostly won high honours, and that very often, in our metropolitan 
shows ? 
In the class for twenty-four Mr. A. J. Waterlow was first with an 
excellent box, containing King’s Acre, Capitaine Christy, Marquise 
de Castellane, Devoniensis, Frangois Michelon, Marie Baumann, La 
France, Edouard Morren, Bouquet d’Or, Baron Hausmann, Abel Car- 
riere, Perfection de Lyon, Etienne Levet, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, 
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Penelope Mayo, Dupuy Jamain, Comtesse de Serenye, Marie Cointet, 
Frangois Premier, Duchesse de Caylus, Camille Bernardin, Pierre 
Notting, Marie Eady, and Charles Lefebvre. Mr. Haywood was a 
good second in the class for twelve. Mr. Haywood had a splendid box, 
containing Marie Verdier, Mons. Noman, Louise Pernet, Baroness 
Eothschild, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, Madame Victor Verdier, 
Mons. E. Y. Teas, Duke of Edinburgh, Marie Eady, Madame La- 
charme, and Charles Lefebvre. In the class for trebles Mr. Sargent 
was first with Horace Vernet, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, Emilie 
Hausburg, Camille Bernardin, Duchesse de Vallomhrosa, Madame 
Lacharme, Marie Baumann, and Capitaine Christy. In the class for 
twelve Teas there was a keen contest between the excellent President 
of the Society (Mr. Geo. Baker) and Mr. Waterlow, decided in favour 
of the latter ultimately, but with very little to spare—in racing par¬ 
lance, won by a head only. Mr. Waterlow’s contained Gloire de Dijon, 
Caroline Kuster, Bouquet d’Or, Madame Camille, Catherine Mermet, 
Madame Willermoz, Souvenir de Paul Neyron, Alba Eosea, Marie 
Guillot, Jean Ducher, Niphetos, and Jean Pernet. Mr. Baker’s box 
contained Niphetos, Madame Charles, Celine Noirey, Souvenir d’Elise, 
Alba Eosea, Souvenir d’un Ami, Anna Ollivier, Archimede, Devoni¬ 
ensis, Eubens, and Marie Guillot. In the class for six Teas Mr. E. 
Mawley was first with Caroline Kuster, Innocente Pirola, Jean 
Ducher, Marie Van Houtte, Perle des Jardins, and Souvenir d’un 
Ami. This was an excellent box, and reflected great credit on an 
exhibitor who has so small a number of plants. The much-coveted 
prize of the gold medal of the National Eose Society, which was 
generally admired, was won by Mr. Sargent for the best box of 
twelve blooms of one kind with a splendid stand of Baronne de Eoth¬ 
schild. The silver medals for the best Hybrid Perpetual was won by 
Mr. Haywood for a splendid bloom of Charles Lefebvre ; and for the 
best Tea by Mr. Geo. Baker. The prize for the best six of any one 
kind was taken by Mr. Stone with a good stand of Marie Baumann ; 
and the second by Mr. Cuthill for a nearly equal stand of Gdn^ral 
Jacqueminot. I am aware that this is rather an imperfect record of 
the doings at Eeigate, but with the thermometer at 85° in the shade, 
and the prospect of a journey to Cardiff in the afternoon, I think the 
readers of the Journal will not be very bard upon the writer. 
In one respect there was a great falling-off in the Exhibition—the 
stands of cut Eoses and foliage. When I first visited Eeigate there 
was a tent full of these, and most of them excellent in design and 
execution ; this year, owing to what cause I know not, there were 
only four, the first prize being awarded to a very beautiful stand of 
wild Eoses and foliage exhibited by the same lady whose stand some 
three years ago was so exquisite—Miss Thornton, and with whom 
the Treasurer declares I fell in love on account of it! Her stand this 
year was somewhat like it, and set up with the same good taste. The 
second stand was also very pretty. The hand bouquets of Eoses 
were of no special merit; but then it is a most difficult thing to make 
a bouquet of one flower alone, and especially of the Eose, to look 
elegant. I must not omit to mention that Messrs. James Veitch and 
Sons of Chelsea sent down a most interesting group of plants, which 
occupied one end of the tent, the plants which attracted most atten¬ 
tion being the Nepenthes, Sarracenias, Droseras, and Cephalotuses. 
Eeigate possesses in its President one of the most genial and 
hospitable of men, and one who never fails to show honour to all 
who love his favourite flower; and I am sure all who know, and 
who consequently value him, will wish that he may be spared for 
many years to preside over a Society which fosters the Eose.— 
D., Deal. 
THE ST. OSYTII SEED FARMS IN JULY. 
Within a few miles of the Essex coast, in the direction of 
Clacton-on-Sea, is situated the small and quiet village of St. 
Osyth. This has long been invested with much interest to the 
antiquarian, as the reputed site of a nunnery said to be the most 
ancient institution of the kind in the couuty, and originally 
founded by a daughter of one of the East Anglian Kings. It is 
near this historic village that the travelling horticulturist will 
find an estate of surpassing beauty should he be fortunate enough 
to visit the district during the summer months. The beauty does 
not consist in verdant lawns, winding walks, majestic trees, or 
elaborately designed flower beds. Tbe flowers are indeed there, but 
in lines hundreds of yards long, or in large quadrangular patches 
each nearly an acre in extent. It is in these masses of colour 
that we find a beauty, a splendour—nay, even in some cases a 
gorgeousness, that cannot be rivalled in ordinary gardens. 
Few indeed have the opportunity of seeing annuals and other 
popular flowering plants in such quantities as they are grown in 
Messrs. J. Carter & Co.’s seed farms, and those who are only ac¬ 
customed to the slender lines and diminutive plots of those flowers 
ordinarily seen in gardens could scarcely imagine the magnificent 
effect produced by the huge masses of scarlet, pink, yellow, and 
blue. Of course there is a far more practical signification 
attached to them than their brilliancy or beauty to the visitor, 
for they represent a portion of the stock in trade of a great 
firm, and as such we perceive in the high quality of tbe strains, 
and the care exercised to preserve them pure, the most sub¬ 
stantial testimonials it is possible to obtain. Annuals are chiefly 
