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every reason to expect that in the future this improvement will be still 
more manifest. 
I should have been glad to have lingered here, and in the delightful 
surroundings have enjoyed, notwithstanding its heat, the summer afternoon 
and evening ; but I had to hurry off to reach Salisbury in the evening, 
and very much wondered what sort of Roses could be cut in such weather 
for it. The next day supplied the answer in a wonderful manner, for 
unquestionably the Roses there were the very finest I have seen this season. 
Other hands wilt supply the account of that Show, but let me just say that 
WIRRAL. 
Of the many children of which the National Rose Society may now boast 
there is no more healthy and vigorous one than the Wirral Rose Society, 
which, from small beginnings, has now attained to a size and strength 
hardly equalled by any children of its age. It has long since grown out 
of its long clothes, and now that it is shorted (I do not mean diminished) 
we may well ask what it will be when it gets into knickerbockers and 
trousers. It has been carefully watched over by some very watchful nurses, 
Fig. 10.— Cattleya Sanderiana (flower natural size). (See page 52.) 
it was one of the most successful the National Rose Society has ever held, 
that the place for the Show—the Bishop’s grounds—was most delightful, 
giving the visitors a fine view of the lovely spire and the chapter house, 
and that it was the unanimous feeling of all alike that the arrangements 
had been most carefully and excellently carried out; and that while much 
praise was due to all who had been engaged, such praise was doubly due to 
Mr. W. H. Williams of the firm of Keynes, Williams & Co., who acted as 
Secretary, and by his energy and urbanity did all that could be done to 
make the wheels run smoothly, and in which he was eminently successful. 
—D., Deal, 
and is in all respects a most promising child. I have been privileged to 
assist at all its Shows ; and although it has not had the support of the 
outside world, which one might have expected, yet the zeal of its members 
is in no wise daunted. Last year, being dissatisfied with the support it 
received on this side of the Mersev, it changed its venue to Liverpool, and 
held an exhibition in St. George’s Hall, a magnificent room, but not by any 
means a good one as far as light is concerned for an exhibiaon. I he 
result, too, was a disappointment as far as “ takings ” were concerned ; still 
the Committee determined to persevere, and the Show was again held there 
last Friday (the 11th). The light is to some extent worse than it was, as 
