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with hardly an exception perfectly fresh. The varieties represented 
were as follows :—Back row : Etienne Levet, Eclair, Merveille de 
Lyon, very chaste ; Prince Camille de Bohan, Madame Isaac P^reire, 
Duke of Edinburgh. Pride of Waltham, Le Havre, tarnished ; Madame 
■Gabriel Luizet, Fisher Holmes, Niphetos, Comtesse d’Oxford, La 
France, very fine ; Duchesse de Moray, Innocente Pirola, beautiful ex¬ 
amples ; Ulrich Brunner, Her Majesty, Senateur Yaisse, Souvenir 
'd’un Ami, Chas. Lefebvre, Mrs. John Laing, Louis Van Houtte, Madame 
ston’s), Hereford. Very bright and clean were Mr. Frank Cant’s third 
prize flowers, viewing them generally, and Messrs. Paul & Son, Ches- 
hunt, who were fourth, also merit a word of praise. 
Class 3, forty-eight, distinct, single varieties, produced one of the best 
displays in the Exhibition, nine being in competition. The Cotswold Roses 
came to the front unmist^keably, Messrs. J. Jefferies & Sons of Ciren¬ 
cester staging a splendid stand. The flowers were most even in all 
points, being of fair size, fresh, and well coloured. The varieties are 
Watteville, and Marie Baumann. Front row : Earl Dufferin, Madame 
Lambard, Camille Bernardin, Baronne de Rothschild, Victor Hugo, 
The Bride, Alfred Colomb, Madame C. Joigneaux, Sir Rowland Hill, 
■Comtesse de Nadaillac, Prince Arthur, Heinrich Schultheis, Duke of 
Wellington, Catherine Mermet, A. K. Williams, yery fine ; Madame 
Cusin, Dupuy Jamain, Marie Verdier, Maurice Bernardin, Marie Finger, 
Beauty of Waltham, Souvenir d’Elise, a beautiful bloom but a little 
•tarnished ; General Jacqueminot, and Franqois Michelon. Fine examples 
of Marie Baumann, Mrs. John Laing, Alfred Colomb, Lady Sheffield, 
Ulrich Brunner, and Comtesse d’Oxford were conspicuously good in the 
tsecond prize collection of the English Fruit and Rose Company (Cran- 
enumerated :—Back row: Merveille de Lyon, flown; Mods. Gabriel 
Tournier, Mrs. John Laing, a perfect bloom ; Duke of Teck, Lady Mary 
Fitzwilliam, Madame Isaac P^reire, Violette Bouyer, Ulrich Brunner, 
small, but very graceful and rich ; Magna Charta, Viscountess Folke¬ 
stone, Beauty of Waltham, Madame Montet, Horace Vernet, La France, 
Gbnbral Jacqueminot, and Francois Michelon. Middle row : Victor 
Verdier, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, Duke of Edinburgh, very fine ; 
Marechal Niel, Alfred Colomb, Innocente Pirola, Prince Arthur, very 
good ; Heinrich Schultheis, Marie Baumann, Madame Gabriel Luizet, 
John Stuart Mill, Niphetos, Glory of Cheshunt, Pride of Waltham, and 
Dingee Conard. Front row :—Prince Camille de Rohan, Chas. Lamb, 
