32 JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
on page 468 of your last volume, I wish to say that the article 
was written some considerable time before it was published, and 
that now the appearance of my beds is as gay as then it was 
gloomy. My Delphiniums, Potentillas, English Iris, Summer Phlox, 
White Rockets, Sweet Williams, Antirrhinums, and Roses leave 
but little to be desired.— Wyld Savage. 
FARNINGHAM HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
On Wednesday the 30th ult. this Society held its annual Exhibition 
of plants and Roses, the weather proving much more favourable than 
on the same occasion last year. One of the chief objects of this 
Society is to encourage the culture of Roses, and in consequence a 
large proportion of the classes was devoted to these flowers, the 
result being a very fair display. Provision was also made for the 
exhibition of stove and greenhouse plants, but the entries were not 
very numerous, and with the exception of a few groups, and the col¬ 
lections contributed by several nurserymen, miscellaneous plants were 
not very strongly represented. Eruit and vegetables were well 
shown by a few exhibitors, the produce staged being fairly creditable 
examples of culture. 
The chief class for Roses was the open one for forty-eight varieties, 
and in that the prizetakers were Mr. B. R. Cant, Colchester, and 
Messrs. Bunyard & Sons, Maidstone, who were placed first and second 
respectively with collections of neat blooms, the premier flowers 
chiefly excelling the others in freshness and substance. Mr. Cant 
also staged the best twelve Teas and Noisettes, all blooms of good 
form ; Mardchal Niel and Devoniensis were especially notable. 
Messrs. Bunyard & Sons again followed very closely, Perle des Jardins 
being one of their finest blooms. In the amateurs’ class for twenty- 
four varieties the winner of the first prize and the silver medal of the 
National Rose Society was S. Hall, Esq., South Darent, who exhibited 
a very neat collection of blooms, Dr. Andry, Sultan of Zanzibar, and 
Star of Waltham being particularly fine. Dr. Ashurst followed with 
blooms of average merit. Neat collections of twelve and six varieties 
were staged by Dr. Tucker of Earningham and E. Burnside, Esq., 
Eamingham, who respectively secured the premier prizes in each class, 
being followed by Mr. A. Mason, Farningham, and Dr. Ashurst. In 
another class for twelve, confined to subscribers living within a radius 
of six miles of Earningham, the Rev. J. M. Fuller, Bexley, Kent, 
gained the chief award with fresh blooms of good colour ; W. Tristram, 
Esq., St. Margaret’s, and J. Honychurch, Esq., Springwood, Dartford 
(gardener, Mr. A. Purvis), following with good examples of well- 
selected varieties. Several other classes were devoted to Roses, the 
principal exhibitors being E. Warde, Esq., West Farleigh, Maidstone ; 
Mr. J. Wakeley, and Mr. W. H. Wakeley, Rainham, Kent; Wm. 
Spottiswoode, Esq., Sevenoaks (gardener, Mr. J. Bolton) ; and E. F. 
Burnaby Atkins, Esq., Halstead Place. 
Stove and greenhouse plants were exhibited by Mr. Bolton and 
H. B. Mildmay, Esq., Shoreham (gardener, Mr. J. Bart), who received 
the two prizes of healthy specimens. Eruit was also well shown by 
Mr. Bart and Mr. Bolton, who carried off most of the prizes. Among 
the miscellaneous collection a handsome group of Coleuses from Mr. 
H. Cannell, Swanley, was greatly admired; Mr. Cattell, Westerham, 
also contributing a group of plants. 
The Exhibition was held in an open piece of ground near the Lion 
Hotel, and was well attended during the afternoon, the arrangements 
giving great satisfaction. 
DOUBLE PYRETHRUMS. 
I in common with many other readers of “our Journal” was 
much interested in the article on the culture of double Pyrethrums 
by Mr. Wright. It may be seen by the remarks of Mr. Wolley 
Dod a fortnight ago, that the plants are uncertain and whim¬ 
sical ; and I have known several failures even with careful cul¬ 
tivators, of which I believe slugs are not the entire cause. I 
have seen roots get knotted or cankered. Do these plants object 
to lime, or lime and soot 1 I have fancied so. Will Mr. Wright 
say when the cuttings should be made, and whether only flower 
shoots can be used for cuttings?—S. S. 
I am greatly obliged to Mr. Wolley Dod for his important 
note on page 489 of the last volume. The attacks of slugs under 
ground I had never observed, for the reason, I presume, that 
previous to surface-dressing the beds in autumn I removed a little 
soil from the plants and filled in the space with small cinders. 
This was not done to preserve them from slugs, but to enable the 
winter moisture—heavy rains and snow—to pass away freely and 
prevent any decay of the crowns. I omitted to state this practice, 
which also, no doubt preserved the plants from slugs. I have 
adopted the same practice with Delphiniums and Hollyhocks 
with the best results. Without some such aid all the plants 
named canker in some soils. It is quite true that all soils suitable 
for Pyrethrums will not grow Carnations, but I shall be surprised 
to learn that soils which will grow Carnations well will not also 
grow Pyrethrums. 
Cuttings are struck precisely the same as Phloxes. The growths 
when 3 or 4 inches long are thinned-out and made into cuttings, 
which are inserted in sand in gentle heat. These growths can 
generally be well spared, and those remaining produce finer 
flowers. Each cutting if it is not stopped produces one flower 
the same season, and also forms growth at the base for another 
year’s blooms ; it is advisable, however, to sacrifice a small flower 
and make a strong plant. The cuttings must not remain in heat 
a day after they commence rooting.—J. Wjright. 
CANTERBURY ROSE SHOW. 
Of all the exhibitions of the Rose which it is my happiness to 
attend in the course of the brief but busy season in which they take 
place there is none that has a deeper interest for me than that which 
is held in this old cathedral city, associated as it is with my boyish 
days, where, ere the cares and anxieties of the battle of life came 
upon me, so many happy days have been spent with dear relatives— 
now, alas 1 gone. I cannot but feel an interest in it, although it did 
seem strange that as I walked through the streets there were none 
of those whom I formerly knew to welcome one ; for as showing the 
manner in which families get scattered in these days on the face of 
the earth, for the first time for upwards of three hundred years there 
is not one of my name left in the old city, which has been its English 
home for that period. Well, let that pass ; we come to the present. 
I have watched the growth of this new Society. I was enabled 
briefly to chronicle its first Exhibition ; and now what can I say but 
that all interested in the Society must feel gratified at the rapidity 
with which it has risen in public favour, and the success which has 
attended this, its second Show. A Society which can attract to it, 
not only the growers in its own neighbourhood, but such men as 
Cant of Colchester, Mitchell of Piltdown, and Prince of Oxford, must 
occupy no second-rate position, and in truth one rarely sees a better- 
filled room or more creditable flowers than were shown on this 
occasion. 
The nurserymen’s class was well represented, and the boxes of Tea 
Roses especially were so excellent and so nearly equal as to give con¬ 
siderable trouble to the Judges. The first prize was ultimately 
awarded to Mr. Prince of Oxford, who had a grand box, containing 
amongst others splendid blooms of Anna Ollivier, Madame Bravy, and 
Souvenir d’Elise ; but I think the amateurs may well be proud of the 
position they occupied, the quality of their flowers being very excel¬ 
lent. Mr. W. Mount took the first prize for eighteen with a very 
even and well-flowered collection, notably amongst them a grand and 
large bloom of Mons. E. Y. Teas, Marechal Niel, Penelope Mayo 
(very good), Marie Rady, Madame Victor Verdier, and Alfred Colomb. 
The Rev. H. B. Biron’s box of twelve was one of the most perfect 
stands I have ever seen, and when I call to mind the few Roses that 
he has to cut from and the losses he has had I cannot but say it does 
him infinite credit. They were Marie Rady (grand), Marie Baumann 
(a splendid bloom), La France, Reynolds Hole, Marquise de Castellane, 
Royal Standard as good as I have ever seen it, Mdlle. Eugenie Ver¬ 
dier, Le Havre (a truly grand bloom, obtaining the bronze medal of 
the National Rose Society for the best Rose in the Show), Naomi, a 
flower which no one seemed to know. It is a large dark flower with 
shell-like petals, something in the way of Reynolds Hole, but more 
regular in form : Duke of Edinburgh, Etienne Levet, and Annie Wood. 
This box not only obtained the first prize for the best box of twelve, 
but also the silver medal of the National Rose Society for the best 
box of any number in the Show, while Mr. Biron obtained the silver 
cup given by the city Members for the exhibitor -who had obtained 
the highest number of marks. Mr. George Mount of Harbledon 
obtained the first prize for six varieties, for Alfred Colomb, Jules 
Margottin, Lord Raglan, Duke of Edinburgh, Souvenir de la Mal- 
maison, and Charles Lefebvre, all very good blooms. Mr. J. Wakeley 
of Rainham obtained the first prize in Teas and Noisettes for excellent 
blooms of Madame Margottin, Comtesse de Nadaillac, Perle de Lyon, 
Souvenir d’un Ami, La Boule d’Or, Jean Ducher, Celine Forestier, 
Celine Berthold, Mardchal Niel, Perle des Jardins, and Madame 
Falcot. Mr. William Mount was first in six Teas with very fine 
blooms of Hippolyte Jamain, Souvenir d’Elise, Bouquet d’Or, Com¬ 
tesse de Nadaillac (very lovely), Reve d'Or, and Souvenir d’un Ami. 
Mr. Wakeley was first for six trebles, showing good blooms of Madame 
Lacharme, Duke of Edinburgh, Nardy Fibres, Duke of Wellington, 
Marquise de Castellane, and Duke of Connaught. For the best six of 
one variety Mr. Biron was first with La France in capital condition. 
There was a very sharp competition for the prizes offered by Mr. 
B. R. Cant of Colchester, the first being taken by Mr. Wakeley. 
The table decorations were not quite up to the mark, having the 
too common fault of being too full. There is doubtless a great temp¬ 
tation when good flowers are to be had to crowd them in, but it can 
never be too strongly impressed on all those who have to arrange 
table decorations or flowers in any way, that lightness and elegance 
are more to be desired than quantity of material or gorgeousness of 
colouring. 
The room which, as I have before said, is admirably adapted for 
the purpose, being lofty and lighted from the roof, was quite filled 
with Roses. The arrangements were excellent, and I am sure all 
lovers of the Rose who rejoice to see a taste for it spreading widely 
are much indebted to the able Secretaries, the Rev. H. B. Biron and 
Mr. W. Mount, for the zeal and courtesy with which they brought 
