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Havre, fine ; Madame Hippolyte Jamain, General Jacqueminot, grand 
in colour and size; Madame Gabriel Luizet, Etienne Levet, fine; 
Madame Larcharme, good ; Constantin Eretiakoff, fresh ; Capitaine 
Christy, good; John Hopper, Cbas. Lefebvre, neat ; Comtesse 
d'Oxford, great size and substance, an exceptionally fine bloom ; Jean 
Liabaud, Mrs. Baker, Duchesse de Yallombrosa, handsome form ; 
Prince Camille de Rohan, Abel Carriere, Niphetos. Jean Sury, Edouard 
Morren, grand ; Beauty of Waltham, very neat and good ; Madame 
Bravy, Horace Yernct, Marguerite de St. Amand, Auguste Rigotard, 
good ; La France, fine ; Lord Macaulay, good ; Marquise de Castellane, 
excellent; Madame Chas. Wood, very handsome, fine colour; Elie 
Morel, Reynolds Hole, Mons. Noman, very large ; Duke of Edinburgh, 
bright; Catherine Mermet, Marie Baumann, large ; Cheshunt Hybrid, 
Jean Soupert, Mdlle. Marie Cointet, John Stuart Mill, handsome; 
Mai-quise de Mortemart, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Madame Nachury, 
Alfred Colomb, Mdlle. Eughnie Yerdier, large and good; Senateur 
Yaisse, fine ; and Belle Fleur dAnjou. Messrs. Cranston well deserved 
the honour they received, for many of the blooms in their collection 
were exceptionally fine, but they were especially fortunate in escaping 
the spring frosts which seriously affected the plants of many other 
nurserymen who are less favoured in regard to position. 
Messrs. Curtis, Sanford & Co., Torquay, were second with a fine 
selection of varieties, mostly the same as those enumerated in the 
preceding collection. Blooms of the following were particularly 
noticeable for their excellent quality : — Senateur Yaisse, Royal 
Standard, Fian^is Michelon, Exposition de Brie, Marie Baumann, 
Mdlle. Marie Rady, and Dr. Andry. Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, 
gained the third prize with neat fresh blooms—Marie Baumann and 
Alfred Colomb being excellent. Messrs. Keynes & Co., Salisbury, 
were fourth, their blooms being rather uneven and somewhat rough, 
but several were of good form and colour. 
Messrs. Cranston it Co. were again victorious in the class for forty- 
eight triplets with a handsome collection that included many admirable 
blooms. Exposition de Brie, Duchesse de Yallombrosa, Alfred Colomb, 
John Stuart Mill were extremely well represented, and General 
Jacqueminot was magnificent. Messrs. Curtis, Sanford it Co. followed 
with an even collection, very bright and fresh ; Messrs. Paul & Son 
and Messrs. Keynes it Co., the only other exhibitors in the class, 
receiving the two remaining prizes. 
Six stands of thirty-six varieties were exhibited. Mr. James 
Walters, Mount Radford Nursery, Exeter, was first with a fresh and 
bright collection, followed by Mr. 0. Turner, Slough, Mr. F. Cant, 
Mile End Nursery, Colchester, and Mr. W. Farren, How House, Cam¬ 
bridge, all with blooms very close in merit. Out of five collections, 
twenty-four triplets, the .chief honours were accorded to Messrs. 
Cranston & Co., who staged handsome examples of Horace Yernet, 
Madame Lacharme, Exposition de Brie, Etienne Levet, La France, and 
Mons. Noman. Mr. G. W. Piper, Uckfield, Sussex, was a good second ; 
Mons. E. Y. Teas, La Rosiere, La France, and Marie Baumann being 
particularly fine. Messrs. Keynes it Co., and Paul it Son, were third 
and fourth respectively. The competition was especially keen in the 
class for twenty-four single trusses, nine admirable collections being 
exhibited. Mr. J. Walters secured the piemier award with fine speci¬ 
mens of Abel Carriere, La France, Alfred K. Williams, Marquise de 
Castellane, Marie Baumann, Ferdinand de Lesseps, and Dupuy 
Jamain among others. Mr. C. Turner followed with neat blooms 
well selected. Mr. W. Farren and Mr. W. Rumsey, Joyning’s Nursery, 
Waltham Cross, being third and fourth with fair examples. 
Nine competitors entered for twelve Teas or Noisettes, the first 
prize being secured by Mr. G. Prince, Oxford, with handsome blooms 
of Anna Ollivier, Marie Yan Houtte, very beautiful; Rubens, Alba 
Rosea, Jean Ducher, Marechal Niel, Souvenir d’un Ami, Souvenir de 
Paul Neyron, Souvenir de Madame Pernet, and Souvenir d’Elise 
Yardon. Messrs. James Mitchell & Sons, Uckfield, were second with 
a neat collection, Messrs. Paul & Son being third. There were only 
three entries in the class for six Teas, three trusses of each ; the six- 
guinea silver cup offered by Thomas Hollingworth, Esq., as first prize 
being secured by Messrs. James Mitchell & Son with very neat 
specimens of Souvenir d’Elise Yardon, Souvenir d’un Ami, Catherine 
Mermet, Josephine Malton, Niphetos, and Paul Neyron. Messrs. 
Cranston & Co. followed very closely, Marie Yan Houtte and Madame 
Willermoz being especially noteworthy. Messrs. Paul & Son were 
third with fair blooms. 
Among the miscellaneous exhibits were excellent collections of 
Roses from Messrs. Yeitch & Son, Chelsea ; Bunyard it Co., Maid¬ 
stone ; Laing it Co., Forest Hill ; and Mr. George Prince, Oxford, the 
latter staging several beautiful boxes of Moss Roses vigorously grown 
on the seedling Briar. Mr. H. Cannell also contributed cut blooms of 
Zonal Pelargoniums and Verbenas, which were very greatly admired. 
After the judging had concluded a large gathering of the members 
and their friends assembled in the south dining-room for a dcjeiiner 
a la fourchette, the Rev. Canon Hole, President of the Society, in 
the chair. Many of the most distinguished rosarians were present, 
and Messrs. Ellwanger it Barry, the celebrated nurserymen of Roches¬ 
ter, New York, were amongst the guests. The President, in one 
of his genial speeches, spoke of the success of the Society and of 
the valuable services which he as admiral of the ship received from 
the Secretaries, Treasurer, and Committee, and said that thus served 
he might go down into his cabin and be quite at ease as to its 
safety. He then proposed the only toast given, “ The visitors,” which 
was appropriately replied to by Mr. Ellwanger, who thanked his 
brother rosarians for the kind and hospitable reception they had 
received, and hoped he might see some of those present at “ the other 
side of the water, when they would be only too glad to show them 
the same hospitality.” 
We append the following critique of the Show by a well-known 
resarian, which will be welcome to many readers :— 
The great field day of rosarians has come and gone—the day that 
is looked forward to with as great anxiety and interest by lovers of 
Roses as the Oxford and Cambridge boatrace is by University men, or 
the Derby by sportsmen. Perhaps more than the usual interest was 
felt in the Show this year on account of the great duel between two 
of the leading amateur exhibitors having to be fought for the final 
round. The interest, therefore, as to who should finally wdn the 
handsome silver claret jug which Mr. Cranston so generously pre¬ 
sented was most keen. There was not, so far as I am aware of, any 
betting on the event, but if there had been I presume it would have 
been even. Mr. Jowitt has perhaps if anything a stronger Rose soil, 
but Mr. Baker has the advantage of a milder more genial climate, and 
certainly a more sheltered position. Whether, then, the cup was to 
be carried off finally to The Old Weir near Hereford, or was to deco¬ 
rate the sideboard of that most generous host Mr. Baker, this was 
an issue that attracted more attention than all the rest of the Show 
together. The Judges, who had the most important and by no means 
to be envied task, were the men most qualified to fill this post. Most 
carefully did they perform them task. Every Rose was discussed 
separately, the number of points to be given to it w T as decided by the 
majority and put down on a piece of paper, and when the amounts 
came to be added up it was found that Mr. Jowitt was the victor in 
a well-contested fight by a majority of twenty-three, the points being 
—Mr. Jowitt 182, Mr. Baker 159, but to Mr. Baker’s number a few 
points were, I think, added for general brilliancy of colour. 
As a great friend of both gentlemen I shall be very careful what I 
say upon the issue. As it seems to me, who am entirely unprejudiced 
and only anxious to give your readers a free and unbiassed opinion, 
Mr. Baker’s blooms were much superior to Mr. Jowitt’s in colour, 
while the latter surpassed him in size and evenness. In form both 
were equally good. Mr. Jowitt had finer Teas, while Mr. Baker’s 
dark Roses were in some instances much superior. Perhaps the very 
weakest Rose in Mr. Jowitt’s box was Charles Lefebvre, while in Mr. 
Baker’s this was one of the finest. A. K. Williams in this stand was 
awarded the prize as the premier bloom (H.P.) in the Show, while 
Mr. Jowitt’s magnificent bloom of Souvenir d’Elise was in this cup 
stand adjudged the same prize as a Tea. The best blooms I noticed 
in Mr. Baker’s stands were, besides the two above named, Thomas 
Mills, E. Y. Teas, Duke of Edinburgh, Jeait Sury, Alfred Colomb, 
Marie Yan Houtte, and Magna Charta ; while in Mr. Jowitt’s stand, 
besides the Tea I have before named, there were splendid examples 
of Marie Baumann, Eugenie Yerdier, La France, Marie Yan Houtte, 
Marechal Niel, Sultan of Zanzibar, Etienne Levet, Baronne de Roth¬ 
schild, and Mons. Noman. 
These stands were in my opinion undoubtedly the best in the Show, 
The contest is now over, and I daresay not only are the principal 
persons concerned glad, but I have no doubt they would prefer that 
it should net be repeated. It becomes almost too personal a fight 
when it is confined only to two men, however great they may be. 
And now to speak of the Show generally. This—I cannot help 
stating it—was not up to the average. I do not think I ever, except 
last year when the Show was held so early that hardly anyone could 
come to it, saw so few nurserymen contend for the great prizes. Mr. 
Cant was only represented by a box of Marechal Niel, which were 
not only very good, but were rendered most interesting by the state¬ 
ment that they were cut from the original plant sent over in 1864, 
now growing against a south wall at Colchester. Mr. George Paul 
certainly showed, but was as little like his usual form as a street 
German band is like the Crystal Palace Saturday orchestra. Mr. Cran¬ 
ston, who secured the first prize for seventy-two, was very fair, but I 
have seen him show infinitely finer. He astonished everyone, how¬ 
ever, with his blooms of the old favourite General Jacqueminot. 
There was very great doubt whether one of these blooms would not 
be selected as the premier bloom, but the Judges, as I said, gave it to 
A. K. Williams. Mr. Turner exhibited in the smaller classes very 
well; and Mr. Mitchell in the large classes and Teas ; but none of 
them were up to their old form. 
This was not the case with the leading amateurs. Both Mr. Baker 
and Mr. Jowitt showed very finely. Perhaps the best Roses, at all 
events in the smaller classes if not in the whole Show, were those 
with which Mr. Ridout won the first prizes for twelve, nine, and six 
varieties. These were really grand. Mr. James Walters of Mount 
Radford Nurseries, near Hereford, whose nursery and Roses I have 
often described in the Journal, showed remarkably well in the class 
for twenty-four. He was first in every class for which he competed— 
first for twelve blooms of Marquise de Castellane and Reynolds Hole, 
and also first for twelve light Roses. One of the finest boxes I have 
ever seen staged consisted of twelve blooms of Baronne de Rothschild 
with which Mr. Baker secured the first prize for twelve blooms of 
any variety; these were superb. Mr. Prince of Oxford showed a 
beautiful box of Teas, securing first honours. His Alba Rosea, 
Jean Ducher, and Souvenir de Paul Neyron were very fine ; his 
Marechal Niel was a fresh young bloom but rather small, but 
io had the great recommendation of not disturbing the evenness of 
