JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER . 
840 
[ April 26,1883. 
Horner’s Sapphire, and several seedlings. Mr. C. Turner, Royal 
Nursery, Slough, was a very close second with fresh bright-looking 
plants, the flowers good, and the varieties numerous. (J. J. Perry, 
Mrs. Sturrock, Aurora, Eliza, Glory, Vulcan, Clipper, Smiling Beauty, 
Prince of Greens, and some others were remarkable for the great size 
of their trusses, some having ten or twelve blooms. J. T. D. Llewelyn, 
Esq., Penllergare, Swansea, was third with smaller plants. 
Single, Specimens. — Green-edged. —Rev. F. D. Horner was first and 
fourth with seedlings, Mr. E. Pohlman second with Leigh’s Col. 
Taylor and sixth with Lytton’s Imperator; Mr. R. K. Penson third 
with Leigh’s Col. Taylor, seventh with the same variety, and eighth 
with Simonite’s Talisman. Forty plants were staged. Grey-edged .— 
Mr. E. Pohlman was first, fourth, and seventh with Headly’s George 
Lightbody; Mr. J. Douglas was second and eighth with the same 
variety, the Rev. Horner third with the same, Mr. W. Brockbank 
fifth with Kay’s Alexander Meiklejohn. Fifty plants were staged. 
White-edged. —Mr. J. Douglas first and sixth with Conservative, 
fourth with Silvia, fifth with Dr. Kidd (all his own raising), and 
eighth with Reid’s Acme ; Mr. W. Brockbank was second with Reid’s 
Acme, and the Rev. F. D. Horner third with Walker’s John Simonite. 
Fifty-nine plants were staged. Selfs. —The Rev. F. D. Horner was 
first, second, third, and fourth with Horner’s Heroine, sixth with 
Spalding’s Blackbird, and eighth with Ringdove ; Mr. E. Pohlman 
was fifth with the last-named variety, and Mr. Brockbank seventh 
with Mellor’s Cymbeline. These were very numerous, over one 
hundred plants being exhibited. 
Seedlings. — Green-edged. —First Mr. Barlow with Greenfinch , a 
very refined flower, the green, black, and paste being equally divided. 
Second Rev. F. D. Horner •with Monarch , a large flower, with the 
body colour very dark, rich deep green, full size. Grey-edqed. —First 
Rev. F. D. Horner with Ajax , a good variety, with rather too much 
ground colour ; black, good grey edge. Second Mr. J. Douglas with 
Miss Lodge, a pretty variety with a silvery edge ; good form. There 
was no award in the White-edged class. Selfs. —First Mr. Barlow 
with Adonis, reddish-purple, very flat and smooth, fine tube ; and 
second with Carbuncle, reddish-maroon, petals well formed, good 
white and gold tube. No certificates were granted when our reporter 
left the Exhibition. 
Seedling Polyanthuses. — First Mr. Brockbank with Black 
Diamond, a splendid flower of full size, fine gold edge ; and second 
with Nonpareil, a well-formed flower, the centre and edge reddish- 
maroon—a beautiful variety. 
ALPINE AURICULAS. 
Twelve Varieties. —Mr. C. Turner won the chief prize with a hand¬ 
some collection, comprising E. S. Dodwell, Raphael, Vesuvius, 
Diadem, Sensation, Mariner, Phoenix, Tennyson, Artist, Superb, Mrs. 
Thomson, and National. J. T. D. Llewelyn, Esq., and Mr. J. Douglas 
were second and third respectively. One collection from Reading 
was disqualified because some of the flowers were pin-eyed. 
Six Varieties. —Mr. C. Turner was again first with fine specimens 
of Troubadour, F. A. Dickson, John Dickson, Sensation, Mariner, and 
John Bull. Mr. E. Pohlman, Halifax, was second ; Mr. Llewelyn 
third ; and Mr. Douglas fourth. 
Single Specimens. — Gold Centre. —Mr. C. Turner was first with Dr. 
Hogg, second with Unique, third with Vesta, fourth with Roysterer, 
fifth with E. R. Cutler, and sixth with John Brown. White or Cream 
Centre. —Mr. C. Turner was first with Olivette, second with Bayard, 
third with Mabel, fourth with J. T. D. Llewelyn, fifth with Talisman, 
and sixth with Milton. 
Only three collections of twelve Fancy Auriculas were staged by 
Mr. J. Douglas and Mr. W. Bolton, who secured the first and second 
prizes in that order for fairly good plants. Mr. R. Dean was third, 
also with fair plants. 
POLYANTHUSES. 
Six Gold-laced Varieties. —The competition was good in the classes 
for these plants, Mr. S. Barlow taking the first prize with neat speci¬ 
mens of Barlow’s Sunrise, Cox’s Prince Regent, Hufton’s Lord Lin¬ 
coln, Sander’s Cheshire Favourite, Crownshaw’s Exile, and Buck’s 
George the Fourth. W. Brockbank, Esq., was a close second, having 
Elliott’s Sir Sidney Smith, Sander’s Cheshire Favourite, and Buck’s 
George the Fourth in fine form. Mr. J. T. D. Llewelyn and Mr. 
Douglas were third and fourth respectively. 
Three Varieties. —Mr. Barlow was again first with George the 
Fourth, Cheshire Favourite, and Exile ; Messrs. Brockbank, Douglas, 
and Llewelyn following in that order. 
Single Specimens. —Mr. Brockbank was first with Cheshire Favourite, 
third with George the Fourth, and sixth with Lancashire Hero ; Mr. 
Llewelyn being second with Exile, and Mr. Barlow fourth with John 
Bright. 
Twelve Fancy Polyanthuses. —Mr. Dean was awarded the first prize 
for very attractive plants, Sovereign, Viceroy, Grenadier, Cloth of 
Gold, and The Bride being the best of the varieties. Mr. W. Hooper, 
Vine Nursery, Bath, and Mr. J. Douglas, were second and third, each 
showing good plants. 
Primulas. —Twelve plants, not less than six distinct species. Mr. 
J. T. D. Llewelyn secured the first and second prizes in this class 
with good collections, in the first being fine plants of P. Sieboldi, 
P. verticillata, P. rosea, P. auricula, P. japonica, P. cortusoides, 
P. Pallasii, P. cashmeriana, and P. involucrata. In the second 
collection were P. calycina, P. farinosa, P. commutata, P. obconica 
P. longiflora, P. denticulata, P. dolomites, and P. decora. An 
extra prize was awarded to Mr. Dean for a collection of well-grown 
plants, chiefly varieties of P. cortusoides. 
THE “ UNIVERSAL ” GARDEN ROLLER. 
A GOOD garden roller is at all times a useful implement in every 
garden establishment, and the various uses to which it is applied 
in rolling turf, gravel, and pulverising heavy soils when dry for 
the preparation of seed beds, render it necessary that the weight 
of the roller should be capable of being varied at pleasure, accord¬ 
ing to the use to which it is to be applied. The rollers we have 
been used to hitherto have been simply a more or less thick open 
cylinder of cast iron, the weight of which could not be conve¬ 
niently increased or diminished at pleasure without some clumsy 
contrivance for loading it with ill-adapted materials. In the 
roller which has been introduced by Messrs. Barford & Perkins of 
Peterborough under the above name we have a great improvement 
Fig. 80.—The “ Universal ” Garden Ro'ler. 
on the old system. It consists of a closed cylinder capable of being 
filled with sand or water, so that its weight may be regulated for 
any special use to which it is to be applied. If a light weight is 
desired the roller can be used empty ; if a greater weight, then 
the cylinder is filled, according to the increased weight which is 
is required, with either water or sand, and these can be removed 
at pleasure when they are no longer required. The mode of filling 
is through a funnel, which is supplied with the roller, and which is 
introduced into a hole in the cylinder by removing an ironscrew 
plug of about 2 inches in diameter. By this hole the roller is also 
emptied. We can with confidence recommend this roller, having 
experienced the practical working of it. It is represented in the 
annexed engraving, with the funnel for filling the cylinder and 
the key for unscrewing the plug. 
MY SUBURBAN GARDEN. 
A COLUMN FOR AMATEURS. 
If the weather in the north has been worse than in the south 
during the month of March I pity the dwellers, at least those who 
are alive, in that bitter clime. The frost and ice winds killed 
almost all my outdoor flowers, and nearly killed me ; it filled the 
hospitals and made life miserable. A month or more ago I was 
to tell of my “ mountain of gold.” It was but for a few days only 
most beautiful, and ought to have been a mass of brilliancy for 
