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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ July 10, 1884. 
I alv?ays find after a few fruits are set they are pretty sure. It is a good 
plan also to pick out the centre flowers.—S. C. 
SPECIAL SOCIETIES-EXHIBITING. 
Mr. Dodwell having called a meeting of the Committee of the 
National Carnation and Picotee Society to demand the sanction of the 
Committee for their approval of what he has done and what he intends 
to do in the matter of his threatened legal action against Dr. Hogg, the 
Committee met on Tuesday last at South Kensington and unanimously 
declined to support him in any such proceeding. Mr. Dodwell, having 
been asked for an explanation of the alleged instructions of the Execu¬ 
tive Committee to Messrs. Mallam of Oxford, stated that Messrs. Mallam 
had misconstrued his instructions, and that he had acted only in the name 
of “ the executive ” and not of the Executive Committee. 
In our opinion this Society is entirely without the organisation which 
enables any society to be properly administered. There is no code of 
rules either for its management or the regulation of its exhibitions, and 
we would commend this matter to the earnest attention of the members. 
EOSE SHOWS. 
CRYSTAL PALACE, July 5th. 
DMIRABLE in every 
respect was the Exhibition 
at Sydenham on Saturday 
and the Directors of the 
Company must have felt fully 
satisfied with the result of their 
liberality. A huge marquee, 
3G0 feet long and 40 feet wide; 
was erected upon the terrace at 
the south side of the Palace, and 
in this some thousands of blooms were 
staged, equally as good as any that 
have been exhibited this year, the Teas 
being superbly represented. With few 
exceptions the thirty-four classes were well 
filled, and in some the competition was so close and 
keen that Judges experienced great difficulty in making 
the awards. The Hybrid Perpetual varieties were 
throughout of excellent colour, though there were few 
really even stands, most of the leading collections including^ 
amongst blooms of unusual excellence, small and weak samples 
which, as might be imagined, did not improve in the course of the exces¬ 
sively hot afternoon. There was, however, a great preponderance of good 
blooms, and this want of regularity did not apply to the Tea classes, in 
which were several stands of considerable merit. 
Upon the central table the larger open amateurs’ classes were arranged, 
being separated by a median line of Palms, Ferns, and miscellaneous fine- 
foliage plants, the two side tables being devoted to the smaller classes in each 
section of the schedule. Particularly striking at the entrance were Messrs. 
Laing’s magnificent group of Tuberous Begonias, which was undoubtedly the 
finest of its kind ever exhibited, and was most deservedly admired. Mr. C. 
Turner’s corner groups of Pelargoniums also imparted some welcome diversity 
to the display, the whole arrangement of which was carefully and creditably 
superintended by Mr. W. G. Head. 
OPEtJ CLASSES. 
The most important of these was that for seventy-two single trusses, four 
collections being entered, and the premier prize was, after a close scrutiny, 
adjudged to Mr. B. R. Cant, Colchester, for a handsome lot, including many 
unusually fine blooms, though some were rather weak. The varieties were 
as follows :—Maiie Rady, Anna Ollivier, Le Havre, Elie Morel, Ferdinand 
Chaffolt, Niphetos, Xavier Olibo, La Boule d’Or, Senateur Vaisse, Souvenir 
d’Elise, Horace Ve)net, Antoine Ducher, Fran 9 ois Michelon, Alfred Colomb, 
Marie Van Houtte, Exposition de Brie, Ulrich Brunner, Innocente Pirola, 
Madame Charles Wood. Souvenir d’un Ami, Dupuy Jamain, Dr. Andry, 
Madame Isaac Perriere, Fisher Holmes, Boieldieu, Madame Ducher, Madame 
Gabriel Luizet, Etienne Levet, Mardchal Niel, Eugene Fiirst, Merveille de Lyon, 
Reynolds Hole, Mdlle. Mane Cointet, Duke of Edinburgh, Madame Marie 
Verdier, Chas. Lefebvre, Marguerite de St. Amand, Alfred K. Williams, Beauty 
of Waltham, Duchesse de Morny, Lord Macaulay, Madame Angele Jacquier, 
Auguste Buchner, Duke of Connaught, Madame Caroline Kuster, Ville de 
Lyon, Dr. Sewell, Comtesse de Paris, Madame Prosper Langier, Countess of 
Rosebery, Duchesse de Vallombrosa, Madam. Hippolyte Jamain, Prince 
Arthur, Mens. E. Y. Teas, Annie Laxtou, Auguste Rigotard, Baronne de 
Rothschild, Marie Baumann (handsome), Devoniensis, Duke of Wellington 
Moird, Marquise de Castellane, Souvenir de Paul Neyron, Duchesse de Caylus, 
Comtesse de Naidaillac, Lady Sheffield, Catherine Mermet (grand), John 
-Hopper, Madame Welch, Duke of Teck, Madame Lacharme, Abel Carriere. 
Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, were awarded second honours for smaller, but 
bright and fresh, blooms, amongst which Catherine Mermet, Ulrich Brunner, 
Duchesse de Morny, Souvenir d’Elise Yarden, Comte Raimbaud, La France, 
Duke of Connaught, and Madame Maria Le Grange W’ere very notable. 
Messrs. Cranston & Co., Hereford, secrrring the third place. 
For forty-eight varieties, three trusses of each, there was the same 
number of competitors, Mr. B. R. Cant again taking the lead vvith blooms 
of fine substance and colour, the varieties being Prince de Portia, Madame 
Lacharme, La France, Dupuy Jamain, Duke of Teck, Devoniensis, Marquise 
de Castellane, Annie Laxton, Exposition de Brie, Souvenir d’un Ami, 
Marguerite de St. Amand, A. K. Williams, Madame Charles Wood, Niphetos, 
John Hopper, Marie Rady, Antoine Ducher, Mons.E. Y. Teas,Prince Arthur, 
Mdlle. Marie Cointet, Madame Caroline Kuster, Boieldi»u, Senateur Vaisse, 
Mdlle. Bonnaire, Frangois Michelon, Catherine Mermet, Comtesse de 
Serenyi, Duke of Edinburgh, Alfred Colomb, Souvenir d’Elise, Ville de 
Lyon, Xavier Olibo, Madame Eugenie Verdier, Penelope Mayo, Mardchal 
Niel, Reynolds Hole, Horace Vernet, Boule d’Or, Souvenir de laMalmaison, 
Le Havre, Fisher Holmes, Marie Van Houtte, Innocente Pirola, Etienne 
Levet, Marie Baumann, Merveille de Lyon, Countess of Rosebery, and Dr. 
Andry. Messrs. Paul it Son were a close second, showing fine blooms of 
Horace Vernet, Mad -ime Maria Le Grange, Reynolds Hole, A. K. Williams, 
Capitaine Christy, Charles Lefebvre, Duchesse de Morny, and Beauty of 
Waltham. Messrs. Cranston & Co. secured the third place, a trio of blooms 
of Senateur Vaisse, Duchesse de Morny, and Rosieriste Jacobs being very 
notable in their stands. 
The competition -was keen in the class for Hventy-four triplets. Hybrid 
Perpetirals, nine collections being entered. A little confusion, however, 
occurred, as exhibitors in Classes 1 and 2 were prohibited from showing in 
3 and 4 and some others, and as Mr. B. R. Cant w’as placed first in this before 
this rule w^as discovered the awards had to be altered, Messrs. J. JeSries 
and Sou being awarded the premier prize, followed by Mr. F. Cant, Colchester, 
and Messrs. G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, several other stands being 
excluded owing to their including Tea varieties, amongst them being a 
stand from Mr. J. House of Peterborough. 
Twelve stands of twenty-four single trusses were entered, all being of 
very good quality. Mr. F. Cant took the lead with fresh even blooms of 
Madame Gabriel Luizet, Madame Charles Wood, Jean Ducher, Duke of Teck, 
Madame Lacharme, A. K. Williams, Madame C, Kuster, Horace Vernet 
(large), Madame H. Jamain, Duke of Wellington, Souvenir de Paul Neyron, 
Constantine TretiakofE, Mardchal Niel, R“ynolds Hole, Catherine Mermet, 
Comtesse d’Oxford, Souvenir d’Elise, Abel Carriere, Duke of Edinburgh, 
Marie Baumann, La Boule d’Or, Dr, Andry (fine), Mons. Noman (good), and 
Black Prince. Messrs. J. Burrell & Co., Cambridge, followed, showing hand¬ 
some blooms of Nardy Freres, Souvenir d’Elise Vardon, Due de Wellington, 
and Princess of Wales (grand); Messrs. G. Cooling & Son, Bath, gaining the 
third place with smaller examples, but Duke of Wellington, Charles Lefebvre, 
Marie Baumann, and Xavier Olibo were substantial and of good colour. 
The Tea Roses in Class 5 for eighteen varieties, three trusses of each, 
were uncommonly fine, and following up his former success Mr. B. R. Cant 
was again the premier exhibitor with fresh and fine blooms of Adam, Madame 
Welch, Marie Van Houtte, Catherine Mermet, Marechal Niel, Anna Ollivier, 
Devoniensis, Comtesse de Naidaillac, Souvenir dePaul Neyron, Moire, Madame 
Bravy, Boule d’Or, Souvenir d’un Ami, Jean Ducher, President, Madame 
Caroline Kuster, Madame Angele Jacquier, and Madame H. Jamain. Mr. F. 
Cant was second with a very slightly inferior collection—Souvenir d’un Ami, 
La Boule d’Or, Marie Van Houtte, and Madame Willermoz being especially 
noteworthy. Messrs. Paul & Son were third with a stand only a few points 
behind the others. 
A highly interesting feature of the Exhibition was formed by the classes 
for Roses in their respective colours, and the competition being keen a good 
display was produced. For a collection of yellow Roses Mr. B. R. Cant w'as 
first with beautiful blooms of Etoile de Lyon, Mardchal Niel, Madame 
Hippolyte Jamain, Madame Margottin, Jean Ducher, Madame Welch, 
Marie Van Houtte, and La Boule d’Or. Messrs. J. Burrell & Co. following, 
and their best blooms were Perle des Jardins, Madame Van Houtte, Jean 
Ducher, and Gloire de Dijon; and Messrs. Paul it Son were third, having 
Boule d’Or and Comtesse de Naidaillac very handsome. There were five 
competitors. 
In the class for a collection of white Roses there were six entries, Mr. 
B. R. Cant again taking the lead with beautiful clean examples of Merveille 
de Lyon, really magnificent blooms, which attracted much aduiiration; 
Rubens, Madame Bravy, Niphetos, Innocente Pirola, and Devoniensis (fine). 
Messrs. Burrell ife Co., Cambridge, were second, their best blooms being 
Niphetos, Anna Ollivier, Rubens, Devoniensis, Innocente Pirola, Madame 
H. Jamain, and Marie Guillot. Equal third prizes were awarded to Messrs. 
Cranston & Co., who had Mons. Noman and Violette Bouyer very fine ; 
and to Messrs. Paul i& Son, who showed Merveille de Lyon, Violette Bouyer, 
and Madame Lacharme clean, fresh, and substantial. 
The best of the seven stands of pink Roses were staged by Messrs. Paul 
and Son, who show'ed good blooms of H. Schultheis, Marie Finger, La France, 
Abel Grand, Marguerite de St. Amand, Lady M. Fitzwilliam, Capitaine 
Christy, Madame Gabriel Luizet, Capitaine Christy, Mdlle. Thercse Levet, 
Madame Melanie Vigneron, Madame Hippolyte, Pride of Waltham, Boieldieu, 
Catherine Mermet, Comtesse de Serenyi, and Countess of Pembroke. The 
second place was accorded to Mr. J. Mattock, New Headington, Oxford, 
his best blooms being Marquise de Castellane, Marie Cointet, and Mons. 
Noman ; while the third prize was secured by Messrs. Cranston & Co. for 
Mad. Marie Cointet, Marguerite de St. Amand, La France, Marquise de 
Castellane, and others. 
Though the crimson Roses were not quite so good as the others fine fair 
stands were entered, Mr. B. R. Cant w'innivg the first place with blooms o^f 
fine colour and substance, representing Hoi ace Vernet. Xavier Olibo, A. K. 
Williams, Beauty of Waltham, Charles Lefebvre, and Duke of Wellington. 
Messrs. Paul it Son and Messrs. Cranston & Co. were second and third. 
Only one collection of velvety crimson Roses was entered, for which Mr. 
B. R. Cant was awarded the first prize, large richly coloured blooms of Abel 
Carriere, Prince Camille de Rohan, Prince Arthur, Reynolds Hole, Horace 
Vernet, Madame Charles Maurice, Sultan of Zanzibar, and Duke of 
Wellington. 
In the single variety classes some very handsome blooms were staged, 
and were quite as interesting a feature as the preceding. Eight boxes of 
any 'Pea Rose were staged, Mr. B. R. Cant securing first honours for Souvenir 
d’Elise, grand blooms of great size and fine form. The Rev. Page Roberts 
and Mr. G. W. Piper were second and third with the same variety, but less 
substantial. There were two boxes in the Camille de Rohan class, but only 
a second prize was awarded— i.e., to Messrs. Paul & Son for Abel Carriere 
