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At the time of year the Rose shows are usually held Oxford may 
be said to be empty. The University and many of the principal 
citizens get away to the sea or mountains so soon as the academical 
year closes. This fact renders it at all times a matter of anxiety to 
the executive as to what conditions of weather they may experience 
in holding their annual display with the view of making it a financial 
success. Happily for them the various College gardens are at their 
disposal, and on the 6th of July the thirty-first annual Show took 
place in the gardens of Trinity College, and it had been arranged to 
hold the Show under the leafy vault of the far-famed “ Lime Tree 
Walk,” an avenue of pollarded Limes some 110 yards long, whose 
branches have become interlaced as to form a Gothic-like groined 
roof. These trees are known to be three hundred years old. To the 
north of this avenue stood another avenue of Yews, some few of 
which are still standing. Beneath this shady retreat the tables were 
set and prepared to receive the boxes of Roses ; when, alas ! within 
one hour of commencing the duties of making the awards rain fell 
so heavily that nothing short of stout canvas could resist it, and a 
general “all hands to the pumps” being called, tables, tressles, 
baize, class cards, i£c., had to be transferred to the shelter of a large 
marquee. 
With regard to the Show, it can be maintained that high quality 
prevailed throughout, the whole of the boxes on view being filled 
with flowers of large size, good form, and of deep tone in colour. The 
entries justified the hope of a large exhibition, but the day previous 
telegram after telegram announced the fact that several large exhi¬ 
bitors had been prevented, owing to the storms then prevailing ; con¬ 
sequently but few of the “ open to all England ” prizes were competed 
for. The only large trade grower who put in an appearance was Mr. 
Charles Turner, whose boxes were very bright and well up to the 
exhibition standard. 
There was no competition in Class 1, for forty-eight triplets, but 
in forty-eight and thirty-six single trusses Mr. C. Turner gained the 
chief awards. His forty-eight box contained Dupuy Jamain, Capitaine 
Christy, Prince Camille de Rohan. Victor Verdier, Lord Macaulay, 
Ma lame H. Jamain, Alfred Colomb, Franqois Michelon, Mdlle. Therese 
Levet, A. K. Williams, Marie Van Houtte, Baronne de Rothschild, 
Senateur Vaisse, Franpois Lou vat, La Duchesse de Moray, Catherine 
Mermet, Marguerite Brassac, Marguerite de St. Amand, Camille Ber- 
nardin, Mons. Noman, Mons. E. Y. Teas, Elie Morel, Ville de Lyon, 
Mdlle. E. Verdier, Gdndral Jacqueminot, Paul Neyron, Souvenir d’un 
Ami, Auguste Rigotard, La France, Mons. Gabriel Tournier, Abel 
Grand, Marie Baumann, Madame Laurent, Constantin Tretiakoff, 
Avocat Duvivier, Comtesse d’Oxford, Devoniensis, Mrs. Harry Turner, 
Madame Lambard, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Edouard Morren, Beauty of 
Waltham, Louis Van Houtte, Countess of Rosebery, Abel Carriere, 
Madame Charles Crapelet, Madame Lacharme, and Duke of Edin¬ 
burgh. The varieties in the thirty-six were similar, first prizes being 
awarded in each class. 
fc For twenty-four Mr. John Walker, Thame, stood to the fore with 
fine clean blooms of Mdlle. E. Verdier, Charles Lawson, Duke of 
Edinburgh, Duke of Wellington, Gloire de Dijon, Mabel Morrison, 
Lord Clyde, Charles Lefebvre, Marquise de Castellane, La France, 
Comtesse d’Oxford, Prince Camille de Rohan, Belle Lyonnaise, Duch¬ 
esse de Caylus, Triomphe de Rennes, Lord Macaulay, Madame Charles 
Crapelet, General Jacqueminot, Madame Victor Verdier, John Keynes, 
Mdlle. Bonnaire, Marie Baumann, Jean Liabaud, and Madame Thdrese 
Levet. Mr. George Humphries, Kington Langley, Chippenham, 
proved a good second with fresh and bright examples of the leading 
varieties. 
The class for twelve Hybrid Perpetuals, one variety, produced 
several fine sets of bloom. Dr. Bywater Ward, Warneford Asylum, 
Oxford, was first with grandly formed and pure Madame Lacharme ; 
Miss Watson-Taylor, Manor House, Headington, Oxon, second with 
Marie Baumann ; J. T. Strange, Esq., Aldermaston, Berks, third with 
Baronne de Rothschild. For twelve Teas several boxes were staged, 
and these of superior merit, Rev. E. L. Fellowes, Wimpole Rectory, 
Royston, Cambs, leading with splendid trusses of Anna Ollivier, 
Amazone, Souvenir de Paul Neyron, Madame Camille, Comtesse de 
Nadaillac, Catherine Mermet, Caroline Kuster, Madame Willermoz, 
Jean Ducber, Souvenir de Madame Pei-net, Rubens, and Bouquet d’Or. 
Rev. E. P. Wellings, Stamford-in-Vale, was second with charming 
examples. The Judges pronounced this a splendid class. 
In the second division, “ not growers for sale,” many good boxes 
were staged. The first prize in the class for thirty-six trusses fell to 
Miss Watson-Taylor for very even blooms, including A. K. Williams, 
Annie Wood. Auguste Rigotard, Beauty of Waltham, Capitaine Christy, 
Countess of Rosebery, Devienne Lamy, Dr. Andry, Duchesse de Caylus, 
Duchesse de Vallombrosa, Dupuy Jamain, Elie Morel, Ferdinand de 
Lesseps, Franpois Michelon, Hippolyte Jamain, John Stuart Mill, 
Julius Finger, Madame Victor Verdier, Mdlle. Marie Rady, Mdlle. 
Marie Verdier, Marie Baumann, Marie Louise Pernet, Marquise de 
Castellane, Niphetos, Madame Gabriel Luizet, Mons. E. Y. Teas, 
Mons. Paul Neyron, Pierre Notting, Senateur Vaisse, Sir Garnet 
Wolseley, and Star of Waltham. For twenty-four blooms Rev. E. L. 
Fellowes secured the chief prize with practically the same as in the 
preceding classes. Mr. A. Evans, Marston, Oxon, was second ; and 
Mr. Jos. Freeman. Market Street, Oxford, third. For twelve blooms 
Dr. Bywater Ward was a good first with large well-formed examples; 
W. Wooten-Wooten, Esq., Headington House, Oxton, second; and 
Mr. John Allin, Sandford-on-Thames, third. In the division “ ama- 
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teur members of the Society only ” the classes were all closely con¬ 
tested. For twenty-four the card went to Rev. W. H. Jackson, Stags- 
den Vicarage, Bedford : and Rev. E. P. Wellings, Stanford Vicarage, 
Faringdon. For eighteen, Mr. A. Evans, Marston, first; Mr. J. 
Freeman, Oxfoid, second ; Mr. C. Taylor, Headington, Oxon, third ; 
and Mr. W. Narroway, Headington Quarry, Oxon, fourth. For twelve, 
Mr. A. Evans again first; Mr. Narroway second; and Rev. H. A. 
Pickard, Canterbury Road, Oxford, third. For nine, Mr. C. Colcutt, 
Holywell, Oxford, first; Mr. Thomas Wheeler, Kingston Road, Ox¬ 
ford. second ; and Mr. T. Freeman third. For six, Mr. Walter Harris, 
17, Kingston Road, Oxford, first; Mr. F. Harris, Walton Crescent, 
Oxford, second ; Mr. E. Collins, 5, Grove Street, Oxford, third. For 
twelve triplets, Mr. Joseph Freeman and Rev. E. P. Wellings divided 
the honours ; while for six triplets, Mr. C. Collcutt first, Mr. Thomas 
Wheeler second, and Rev. E. L. Fellowes third. For six trusses, of 
one variety Mr. A. Evans took the card with Baronne de Rothschild, 
Rev. E. L. Fellowes second with Catherine Mermet, Mr. C. Taylor 
third with Marie Baumann, and Rev. W. H. Jackson fourth with 
Capitaine Christy. For one bloom, Mr. C. Collcutt was first with Marie 
Baumann, Mr. A. Evans second with Alfred Colomb, and Mr. F. 
Freeman third with Madame Willermoz. 
At a General Meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society 
held July 11th, 1882, George F. Wilson, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair, 
the following candidates were elected Fellows—viz., Henry John 
Blagrove, William Beriah Brook, Miss Agnes Grainger, Fred T. 
Mappin, M.P., James Pink (Director of the Botanic Gardens, 
Brisbane), and Lieut.-Col. R. F. Webb. 
- We are desired to state that the bloom of Edouard Morren, 
which won the National Rose Society’s medal at the Reigate 
Show, was not in Mr. Haywood’s stand, but in Mr. Waterlow’s 
second-prize box of nine blooms, which box was inadvertently 
credited in our report to Mr. Wilkins. 
- A correspondent writes “ For several weeks ChlorA 
GRANDIPLORA has been one of the most striking plants in the 
ornamental house of the Cambridge Botanic Garden. Those 
who know our British C. perfoliata can imagine what this may 
be, as it is only a fine variety. The bright golden flowers are 
extremely showy among other decorative plants. It submits 
readily to pot culture, and, indeed, seems to be much finer under 
glass. Seeds should be sown early in the autumn, so as to pro¬ 
duce stocky plants before winter. If sown too early it flowers 
weakly the same season.” 
- “Undoubtedly,” observes the same writer, “the finest 
hardy Water Lily is Nymph^ea candidissima. Its flowers 
measure 6 inches across, while those of the common N. alba grow¬ 
ing close to it measure only 3 inches. The petals, too, are much 
broader, and the centre is of deeper yellow colour. It was con¬ 
tributed to the Cambridge Botanic Garden by Mr. Parker.” 
- Respecting the origin of Mar£chal Niel Rose, Dr. 
Penjade writes in the Revue H^rtwole that it was raised by 
M. Pradel, a florist at Montauban in the South of France. M. 
Pradel states that he raised it from seed sown by himself, and 
that having grafted many stocks with it, he planted one of them 
in the garden of a M. Chateau, where it was observed by M. 
Rapin, Director of the Registry at Montauban. M. Rapin took 
it to an exhibition of the Horticultural Society which was being 
held at the time, and on the 3rd of May, 1862, the Jury, presided 
over by M. Helye of Paris, awarded a medal to M. Pradel, jeune, 
for the exhibit. The Rose received the name of Marshal 
Niel in compliment to the Mardchal, who in the month of June 
previously had presided at the opening of the Garden of Horti¬ 
culture and Acclimatisation of Tarn-et-Garonne at Montauban. 
The Rose was sent out by M. Pradel in 1863. 
