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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ July 24 1884. 
bas been the first to inaugurate a Rose show in Derbyshire, and on Thursday 
last the Exhibition was held in the pretty grounds of “The Lees,” in the 
midst of some of the finest scenery in Derbyshire. The schedule was an 
attractive one, about £50 being offered in prizes, the inducements being 
sufficient to bring some good growers long distances. Owing, however, to 
the contemporaneous shows at the Mansion House, Louth, Helensburgh, and 
Carlisle, competition in the open nurserymen’s classes was limited ; a weak 
point in the Show was also the paucity and poor condition of the Teas and 
Noisettes, but these were compensated for by the beauty of the blooms, 
mostly H.P.’s, and the number of stands put up in the amateurs’ classes, that 
of the Rev. J. H. Pemberton of Havering-atte-Bower, Essex (a Darlington 
winner the previous day), who carried off the silver medal of the N.R.S. and 
the first prize for twenty-four single trusses, being certainly the best box in 
the Shaw, although he was run close by a strong rear. 
In the open class for forty-eight single blooms Mr. H. Erettingham of 
Beeston, Nottingham, although the only competitor, had some attractive 
and portly blooms, and was consequently placed first. For twenty-four 
single trusses Messrs. G. Cooling & Son, Bath, took a similar position, and 
the only prize for twelve Teas in the dealers’ class. The Rev. J. H. Pem¬ 
berton, who showed so well in the open amateurs’ class for twenty-four 
blooms, had not really a bad flower in his box, the following being excep- 
tionall}’’ fine—viz,, Duchesse de Morny, Countess of Rosebery, Fran 5 ois 
Michelon, Marie Verdier, Egeria, Marie A. Rigotard, Madame Charles Wood, 
Horace ’Vernet, Beauty of Waltham, Annie Wood, and Exposition de Brie. 
Mr. W. J. Grant, Ledbury, a good second, had A. K. Williams, Constantin 
Tretiakoff, Etienne Levet, Jean Soupert, and Franqois Michelon in fine form. 
Mr. A. Tate, Wootton, Liverpool, was third, but the Judges had much diffi¬ 
culty in discriminating between his stand and those of three other exhibitors, 
to two of whom (Mr. G. P. Budd of Bath and Mr. W. Boyes of Milford) 
extras were ultimately awarded. Here were good flowers of Mabel Morrison, 
Capitaine Christy, Mrs. Laxton, Earl of Beaconsfield, Charles Darwin, and 
Charles Lefebvre. The only good Tea Rose in the Show a clean bold flower 
of Souvenir d’Elise. For twelve single blooms, open to amateurs, T. Tatham, 
Esq., Wilmslow Pai'k, was first; Mr. J. Hudson, Bonsall, second ; and A. 
Arkwright, Esq., Wirksworth, third. For six Teas Mr. Grant was first, Mr. 
Tate second, and Mr. W. Boyes, Milford, third. 
In the local class for amateurs residing within six miles of Wirksworth 
Mr. G. J. Rowland, Matlock, was placed first, securing the bronze medal of 
the N.R.S. with very nice flowers, and Mr. J. Jaques, Wirksworth, second. 
•For a centrepiece of Roses and Rose foliage there was a good competition by 
ladies, and some tastefully arranged devices were set up, Mrs. G. Bolas of 
Hopton securing the first prize, given by Lord E. Cavendish, M.P.; second 
Mrs. C. Wright, Wirksworth ; and third Miss Bing, Biggin. 
The display of baskets of Roses, although attractive and ample in their 
material, were generally inelegant and wanting in taste and lightness. The 
competidon in buttonholes of Roses, for which good prizes were offered, was 
an unsatisfactory one, but a repetition of these classes should bring about 
an improved state of things on a future occasion. There was a marked want 
of pink and light Roses in the Exhibition, the dark shelly-petalled flowers 
greatly predominating. Exhibitors and all engaged will feel much indebted 
for the courtesy, liberality, and kindness extended to them by Mr. Wright 
the President, and for the attention and painstaking efforts of Mr. G. Allen 
the Hon. Secretary, and it is evident that a recuiTence of Wirksworth Rose 
Show will by many be pleasurably anticipated. The display on Thursday 
was considerably enhanced by contributions not for competition from Mr. 
Smith of Darley Dale Nurseries ; Messrs. R. Smith & Co., Worcester ; the 
Rev. T. O’Grady of Hognaston Yicarage, and Mrs. Hurt of Alderwasley 
Hall; and amongst the contributors of prizes is the name of the Cranston 
Nursery and Seed Company (Limited), Hereford. 
DARLINGTON.— July IGth. 
It is a long way from Leek to Darlington, not so much as to distance 
(which we hardly measure in railway travelling, for when you ask, “How far 
is snch and such a place ? ” you are answered generally, “ About an hour or 
so,” as the case may be), but as to the time it takes. You have to cross the 
country, travel by various lines, wait at stations, so that it was fully seven 
hours and a half before I reached my destination to take my usual position 
of managing the judging arrangements at Darlington and taking part 
therein. 
No greater contrast can possibly exist in Rose societies than in those 
of the two places mentioned. At Leek all is small, confined to local 
amateurs, and the highest class not exceeding twenty-four blooms. At 
Darlington all is large, nearly all the principal nurserymen and amateurs, 
except those who live in the far south where the Roses are over, were 
represented. The classes were large and numerous, and although the 
sterotyped seventy-two was absent from the nurserymen’s class, yet sixty 
formed nearly as large and quite as effective a class ; while those who live 
in the north, for whom the southern shows are too early, found, as is fitting 
for the National Society, a place here which they worthily fulfilled. We 
never see Messrs. Mack, or Hawkins, and others at them, while here they 
were, on their native heath, able to maintain a good place. 
I have before alluded to the excellent arrangements made by my friend 
Mr. Whitwell for the Show. He is Secretary, Treasurer, and Committee, 
■“ three single gentlemen rolled into one.” He collected all the funds, and is, 
in fact, the representative of that best of all governments—a beneficent 
despot. He is large-hearted, has no fads, and possesses an amount of 
energy enough for half a dozen. He has a most efficient Secretary in Mr. 
Dyers, and a capital staff of workers, so that it is impossible for anything 
to go wrong that can in any way be preventible, and the praise for the 
arrangements was unanimous and given in no stinted measure. The 
Exhibition was held in the grounds of the Misses Pease at Southend Park, 
■close to the town. These ladies most generously, at personal inconvenience, 
^ave them up on that day for the purpose. The day, which in the morning 
looked very threatening, held up, and was very enjoyable, a fact which the 
people of Darlington seemed to appreciate, for with no other attractions 
than the Rose and a good military band nearly £170 was taken at the gates. 
The character of the Exhibition was excellent. I have attended all the 
principal shows with the exception of that held at the Crystal Palace, and 
so am enabled to judge pretty well. The blooms were not as good as at 
Salisbury, where I think the Roses have been in better form than anywhere 
else this season, but in both classes of amateurs and nurserymen there were 
some exceptionally fine blooms, a bloom of Marie Baumann in Messrs. 
Macks’ box standing forth pre-eminently as probably the very best example 
of that grand Rose I have ever seen, and that in a year when that flower 
has not been in as good form as usual. 
In the class for sixty Mr. B. R. Cant was first -with the following flowers : 
—Souvenir de Mons. Boil, Baroness Rothschild, Dr. Andry, Catherine 
Mermet, Queen Victoria, Pierre Netting, Alfred Colomb, Marie Van Houtte, 
Fisher Holmes, Baron Gonella, Duchesse de Caylus, Madame Marie Verdier, 
Marguerite de St. Amand, La France, Charles Lefebvre, Merveille de Lyon, 
John Stuart Mill, Emilie Hausburg, Baron Bonstettin, Comtesse de 
Nadaillac. a magnificent bloom ; Le Havre, Paul Neyron, Prince Camille de 
Rohan, Madame Charles Crapelet, Camille Bernardin, A. K. "VVilliams, 
Jean Soupert, Marie Rady, Beauty of "VValtham, Abel Grand, Comte de Paris, 
Duke of Edinburgh, Thomas Mills, Exposition de Brie, Lad)’ Sheffield, Duke 
of Connaught, Maiechal Niel, Auguste Rigotard, Abel Carriere, Innocente 
Pirola, Duke of Wellington, Fran 9 ois Louvat, La Boule d’Or, Ulrich Brunner, 
Madame Eugenie Verdier, Comtesse de Serenye, Dr. Sewell, Frangois 
Michelon, Marie Baumann, and Prince Arthur. Messrs. Paul & Son were 
second with a nearly equal stand, and the Cranston Company third. In the 
class for twenty-four trebles Messrs. Paul & Son were first with Madame 
Prosper Lingier, Merveille de Lyon, Senateur Vaisse, Marquise de Castellane, 
Marie Verdier, Louis Van Houtte, Pride of Waltham, Maurice Bernardin, 
Marie Baumann, Countess of Rosebery, Madame Eugdnie Verdie.'', A. K. 
Williams, Etienne Levet, Abel Carriere, Marfichal Niel, Edouard Andry, 
Baroness Rothschild, Marie Rady, Alfred Colomb, Ulrich Brunner, John 
Stuart Mill, Centifolia Rosea, and Camille Bernardin. Mr. B. R. Cant was 
second, and the Cranston Company third. In the class for thirty-six single 
trusses the Cranston Company was first with Madame Charles Wood, 
Madame Isaac Pereire, Louis Van Houtte, La France, Earl of Pembroke, 
Helen Paul, Le Havre, Comtesse de Nadaillac, Pierre Netting, Comtesse de 
Serenye, Baroness Rothschild, Victor Verdier, Eugene Delane, Baroness 
Rothschild, Rosieriste Jacobs, Comtesse d’Oxford, Henri Schultheis, A. K. 
Williams, Madame Margottin, Charles Lefebvre, Lselia, Ulrich Brunner, 
Merveille de Lyon, Reynolds Hole, Princess Beatrice, Prince Arthur, Princess 
Mary of Cambridge, Marie Verdier, Marie Baumann, Xavier Olibo, Thfirese 
Levet, and Senateur Vaisse. 
In the class for thirty-six singles. Division B, Messrs. Harkness & Co. 
were first with an admirable stand of well-coloured and well-formed Roses 
of the following varieties :—Alfred Colomb, Magna Charta, John Bright, 
Due de Rohan, Madame Marie Verdier, Auguste Rigotard, Comtesse de 
Nadaillac, Etienne Levet, Maurice Bernardin, Marie Finger, Fisher Holmes, 
Beauty of Waltham, Baroness Rothschild, Le Havre, Antoine Ducher, 
Victor Verdier, A. K. Williams, Innocente Pirola, Duke of Edinburgh, 
Paul Neyron, Charles Lefebvre, John Hopper, E. Y. Teas, Dupuy Jamain, 
La France, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Madame Therese Levet, Pierre Netting. 
Messrs. Mack & Son were second with an excellent stand, in which the 
bloom of Marie Baumann already alluded to stood out conspicuously. In 
the class for twenty-four Teas, not less than twelve varieties, Mr. B. R. 
Cant was first with Catherine Mermet, Souvenir d’un Ami, Madame 
Willermoz, Niphetos, Marechal Niel, Comtesse de Nadaillac, Etoile de Lyon, 
Souvenir d’Elise, Madame Angela Jacquier, and Souvenir- de Mons. Pernet. 
Messrs. Paul & Son were second. 
I now turn to the amateurs, whose exhibits were, generally speaking, 
good, although Mr. Whitwell was not in his usual form, the season having 
been unfavourable to him ; withal his stand of thirty-six was an excellent 
one. It contained Alfred Colomb, Marguerite de St. Amand, Dr. Andrd, 
Marquise de Castellane, Pierre Netting, Etienne Levet, Duke of Edinburgh, 
Madame Charles Wood, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, Duke of Wellington, 
Auguste Rigotard, Madame Lacharme, Duchess of Bedford, Queen of 
Waltham, Mrs. Harry Turner, La France, Mrs. Baker, Abel Grand, Maurice 
Bernardin, Baroness Rothschild, A. K. Williams, Dupuy Jamain, E, Y. 
Teas, Merveille de Lyon, Abel Carriere, Princess Mary of Cambridge, 
Thomas Mills, Frangois Michelon, Marie Rady, Helen Paul, Lord Macaulay, 
Madame Eugenie Verdier, and Duchess de Caylus. The Rev. J. H. Pem¬ 
berton was a good second. 
In the class for eighteen trebles Mr. E. R. Whitwell was again first 
with Alfred Colomb, Lord Macaulay, Paul Neyron, Abel Carriere, La France, 
Marie Baumann, Princess Mary of Cambridge, Duchess of Bedford, Emilie 
Hausberg, Camille de Rohan, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, Duke of Welling¬ 
ton, Annie Laxton, Queen of Waltham, Baroness Rothschild, Pierre Netting, 
and Camille Bernardin. The Rev. J. H. Pemberton was a good second. 
In the class for twenty-four singles the Rev. Lionel Garrett of Cheselton 
Rectory, Cheshire, was first with an excellent stand containing Thomas 
Mills, Charles Lefebvre, Ferdinand de Lesseps, La France, Loiris Van Houtte, 
Senateur Vaisse, Frangois Michelon, A. K. Williams, Baroness Rothschild 
Abel Carriere, Marie Rady, Abel Grand, Duke of Wellington, E. Y. Teas,’ 
Marie Verdier, Duke of Edinburgh, Le Havre, Duchesse de Caylus, Madame 
Noman, Mrs. Baker, Penelope Mayo, Madame Charles Crapelet, and V. 
Verdier. Mr. T. B. Hall came in second with an excellent stand of fine blooms. 
In the class for twelve varieties Mr. T. B. Hall exhibited a remarkably 
fine box of flowers of great substance and richness of colour, consisting of 
Capitaine Christy, Duke of Wellington, Marie Verdier, Marie Finger, Beauty 
of Waltham, Fisher Holmes, La France, Duchess of Bedford, Alfred Colomb, 
Etienne Levet, Baroness Rothschild, Sir Garnet Wolseley. The Rev. Lionel 
Garrett was second with a fine box. 
The local classes were not as well filled as might have been expected, 
but some good stands were shown in the class for twelves. Mr. J. Finlay 
was first with Mrs. Laxton, Mrs. Baker, Capitaine Christy, Alfred Colomb, 
Marie Baumann, Charles Darwin, E. Y. Teas, Baroness Rothschild, Ex¬ 
position de Brie, Sultan of Zanzibar, A. K. Williams, and Madame Berard. 
Mr. Mitchell was second. In the class for nine varieties Mr. McLachlan 
was first with Black Prince, Constantine Tretiakoff, Marie Verdier, The Shah, 
E. Y. Teas, General Jacqueminot, Boule d’Or, and Emilie Hausburg. Mr. J. 
Carnegie was second. 
In the class for twelve Teas Mr. T. B. Hall had first prize with a good 
stand of clean blooms, consisting of Jean Ducher, Souvenir d’Elise, 
Niphetos, Souvenir d’un Ami, Marie Van Houtte, Madame Angele Jacquier, 
Catherine Mermet, Anna Ollivier, Rubens, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, 
Louise de Savoie. In the class for six Mr. E. R. Whitwell was first with 
