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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
r July 12 , 18SS, 
Countess of Rosebery, and Pierre Not tin" For twelve Roses there were 
seven competitors, Mr. J. C. Quennell being awarded first prize. For 
six Teas there were four entries, the first prize going to Mr. Harring¬ 
ton, who exhibited a good Innocente Pirola. For three Roses grown 
by cottagers within five miles of Brentwood, the first prize was won by 
Mr. Judd of South Weald, who staged in gingerbeer bottles, as the 
schedule required for this class, three very creditable specimens of La 
France, Gloire de Dijon, and Dr. Andry.— Hobace Vernet. 
CANTERBURY. 
As this Society had made a new move this year, which involved 
the necessity of a fine day, it was with very sad feelings that all who 
were interested in its success regarded the terrible day that seems to have 
prevailed all over the country on the previous day. Torrents of rain from 
morning till night, accompanied with wind, so unceasing that not only 
did one tremble for the next day, but also for the Roses. How could 
they stand 1 Would they not all be dashed and blown to pieces ? and 
would not Teas especially be draggled and untidy ? It only shows the 
extreme care with which Roses are tended by amateurs when I say that 
nothing of the kind occurred, and that the Show held at Canterbury 
was held under fair skies and with a capital collection of flowers. 
But first as to the locale. The Committee had made a bold effort, 
and had ventured to solicit the Cathedral authorities for permission to 
hold it within the precincts, and there, in what is called the Bowling 
Green, an enclosed piece of garden, sheltered from high winds, and 
under the shadow of the venerable towers of the grand old pile, the 
Rose Society’s tent was pitched on the green grass, and filled to over¬ 
flowing with a beautiful collection of flowers. To many ef us it brought 
back the memory of certainly the most picturesque Show that the 
Society has ever held, so far as the surroundings went, when it met 
some years ago in Salisbury, in the Palace Gardens ; although they 
were smaller, yet the whole of the surroundings were of the same 
character, and since the Society moved from the Corn Exchange, which 
was so admirably adapted for it, their surroundings have not been such 
as one could wish, and therefore this move was heartily welcomed. 
Time brings its changes in all things, and in Rose shows amongst 
others. One greatly missed one thoroughly good exhibitor, Mr. W. H. 
Wakeley of Rainham, whose refined and beautiful flowers always added a 
charm to the Canterbury Show. Others, however, come forward, and 
so the game is kept up. We find exhibitors who used to show in the 
smaller classes moving up into higher ones, their place being taken by 
fresh combatants. 
As this is essentially an amateurs’ Society (although there are classes 
for nurserymen also), it is satisfactory to be able to say that the Roses 
exhibited by private growers were a good deal better than those shown 
by growers for sale. I think this is easy to be accounted for after such 
weather as we had the day before. Nurserymen cannot give the attention 
to individual flowers that the amateur does. His garden is not a forest of 
Zulu hats or other such like coverings. The amateur looks round the 
day before and sees what flowers he thinks he will want, and takes 
special care in shading. This it is impossible for the nurserymen to do, 
and hence it was that there was a want of freshness about the stands 
exhibited by nurserymen, while those shown by the amateurs were both 
clean and fresh. The leading classes amongst them were as follows : — 
Class 1, twenty-four varieties, one truss of each. Here four exhibitors 
staged, and one of those unfortunate contretemps which sometimes take 
place even amongst the most experienced exhibitors. The box ex¬ 
hibited by R. L. Knight, Esq., of Bobbing was a long way the best in the 
Show, but unfortunately it was disqualified for having two A. K. Wil¬ 
liams in it. This must have been an inadvertence, for it is so perfectly 
distinct a Rose that its presence is at once observed. Owing to this 
mishap, Mr. R. E. West of Reigate carried off the first honours with a 
very excellent stand of flowers, consisting of Abel Carriere, Marquise de 
Castellane, Duke of Edinburgh, M. E. Y. Tea=, Captain Christy, A. K. 
Williams, Countess of Rosebery, Gdnfiral Jacqueminot, Marie Van 
Houtte, Mrs. Caroline Swailes, Mrs. George Dickson (the best bloom of 
this variety I have seen, it is generally too thin, but this was full and 
very fresh in colour), Dupuy Jamain, Horace Vernet, Duke of Teck, 
Henri Ledcchaux, Xavier Olibo, Catherine Mermet, Mdile. Marie Finger, 
Dr. Andry, Merveille de Lyon, Etienne Levet, and La France. Mr. F. 
Warde of East Farleigh was second, and Mr. H. Foster of Ashford third. 
In class 2, for eighteen, distinct, Mr. H. Foster was first with a fine box, 
containing Madame Gabriel Luizet, Duke of Edinburgh, Jean Larey 
(a flower unknown to me), Prince Camille de Rohan. Marie Van Houtte, 
Rubens, Marie Baumann, Madame Eugene Verdier, Beauty of Waltham, 
Red Dragon, Countess of Rosebery, Baroness Rothschild, Marquise de 
Castellane, A. K. Williams, Dupuy Jamain, Ipswich Gem (a beautiful 
dark Rose, which I do not recollect to have seen, and which I thought 
was a pink Rose, not a dark one), Marguerite Brassac. Mr. F. Warde 
was second with A. K. Williams, La France (very good), Duke of Edin¬ 
burgh, Alfred Colomb, Baroness Rothschild, Prince Arthur (very good), 
Duchesse de Vallambrosa, Marie Baumann, Franqois Michelon, Louis 
Van Houtte, Etienne Levet, Reynolds Hole, Madame Gabriel Luizet, 
Prince Camille de Rohan, Belle Lyonnaise, Xavier Olibo, and Duke of 
Teck. Mr. R. E. West of Reigate was third. In class 3, for twelve Teas or 
Noisettes, the first prize was taken by R. L. Knight, Esq., with Niphetos, 
Comtesse Riza du Parc, Madame Kuppenheim, Alba Rosea, Souvenir de 
Th^rese Levet (a beautiful bloom), Souvenir d’Elise Vardon, Catherine 
Mermet, Madame Cusin, and Anna Ollivier. Mr. H. Shoesmith of Salt- 
wood, alas! no longer gardener to one whose memory will always be held 
in loving reverence by all who knew him, Canon Hodgson, had a box 
which ran this very close, containing fine blooms of Caroline Kuster, 
Souvenir de Thercse Levet, Madame Bravy, Madame Lambard, Marie 
Van Houtte, Marie Guillot, Comtesse de Nadaillac (a lovely bloom, but 
not as high coloured as sometimes), Jules Finger, Madame de Watte- 
ville, Anna Ollivier, and Princess of Wales. Mr. F. Warde was third'. 
In class 4, for eight varieties, three trusses of each. Mr. R. E. West of 
Reigate was first with A. K. Williams, Gabriel Luizet, Et ienne Levet, Prince 
Camille de Rohan, Duke of Edinburgh, Baroness Rothschild, and Marie 
Baumann. In class 5, for twelve varieties, Dr.Ashurst of Farningham was 
first with fine blooms of Duke of Edinburgh, Etienne Levet, Duke of 
Teck, A. K. Williams, Merveille de Lyon, General Jacqueminot, Madame 
Montel, Baroness Rothschild, and Alfred Colomb. In class 6, for nine 
Teas, Miss M. Hawksworth of Erdington was first with good blooms of 
Countess Riza du Parc, Marie Van Houtte, Catherine Mermet, Madame 
Lambard, Madame Cusin, Madame de Watteville, &c. These were the 
principal classes amongst the amateurs. The National Rose Society’s 
silver medals for the best Hybrid Perpetual and the best Tea or 
Noisette amongst the amateur classes were awarded, the first to R. L. 
Knight, Esq., for a splendid bloom of A. K. Williams, and the other to 
Mr. H. Shoesmith for the lovely bloom of Comtesse de Nadaillac already 
mentioned. 
Passing to the nurserymen’s classes, the first prize was taken for 
thirty-six varieties by Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, with moderate- 
flowers, amongst which were, however, good blooms of Ladv Alice, the 
white sport of Lady Mary Fitzwilliam. Madame Joseph DesLo's, a rather 
new Rose of good quality ; A. K. Williams, Marie Baumann, Duke of 
Edinburgh. Duke of Teck, Madame Lacharme, Madame Gabriel Luiz ct 
Alfred Colomb, Prince Camille de Rohan, Niphetos, Xavier Olibo, &c. 
Mr. B. R. Cant of Colchester was second, and Mr. George Mount of 
Canterbury third. Mr. Mount was first in Teas with a beautiful box of 
fresh blooms. 
Last year when I attended the Canterbury Show I ventured to 
prophesy from the appearance of the Roses there that we should have a 
good season. Like a good many prophecies connected with weather, I was 
wrong. Yet do I venture once again. I think that unless the unfo 1- - 
seen occurs we may look forward for a first-rate season, such as we 
have not had for many years. There is no present prospect of blazing 
hot weather, such as we have had in the beginning of July of late years, 
and if only thunderstorms keep off Roses must be good. 
It remains but to say that the Secretaries, the Rev. H. B. Biron and 
Mr. Dean, worked with hearty good will, assisted by the Committee,, 
and I can only hope that the financial results may be good. 
FARNINGHAM. 
This prettily situated little Kentish village, situated on the banks of 
the Darcnth (dear to all lovers of the gentle art), did not appear in its. 
most attractive form when on Thursday last its annual Exhibition of 
Roses was held. Lowering skies, heavy thunder showers, with fitful 
glimpses of sunshine do not form the mist fitting accompaniments of a 
Rose show. Happily as the day wore on the weather improved, and the 
evening was, comparatively speaking, fine. The Exhibition was held 
as usual in the ground facing the Hotel, and very little change was- 
made in the arrangements ; but changes here, as elsewhere, had taken, 
place in the personnel of the Show. The worthy and excellent Chairman. 
Mr. Dalton, was, alas ! no longer with the Society, which will find it 
difficult to fill the place his death has made vacant. Then in the exhi¬ 
bitors changes had also taken place. Here too Mr. W. H. Walcley used 
to show, and his fine Ros.-s were sadly missed. Earl Stanhope, too, did 
not put in an appearance, and generally there was a slight falling off. 
This is to be easily accounted for by the backwardness of the season and 
the unsettled character of the weither, but despite these drawbacks the 
Roses were well represented, and the quality of the flowers good. There 
is one comfort in the character of the weather, Roses do not suffer from 
the heat of the tent, while the highly coloured Roses show pre-eminently 
well. 
Here, as in other of these local societies, the amateur is especially 
(and rightlv so) considered. It is they who form the backbone of such, 
societies, and their enthusiasm helps forward the general cultivation of 
the Rose. There are then but two classes where nurserymen entered, 
and these are open, and, as it will lie seen, an amateur occupied the 
second place. 
The class for thirty-six varieties, Mr. Frank Cant, Colchester, was 
first with a good box, containing Duke of Edinburgh, Madame Cusin, 
Le Havre, Madame Gabriel Luizet, Lord Beaccnsfield, Madame Angele 
Jacquier, Ulrich Brunner, Rubens, Comtesse d’Oxford, Niphetos, Dr. 
Sewell, Souvenir d’un Ami, Magna Charta, Marfichal Niel, G^nfiral 
Jacqueminot, Marie Van Houtte, Sultan of Zanzibar, Devoniensis, 
Duchess of Bedford, Capt. Christy, Mons Noman, Lady Mary Fitzwilliam.. 
Dr. Andry, Queen of Queens, Heinrich Schultheis, Madame Eugene 
Verdier, Marie Baumann, Mrs. John Laing, Madame Alphonse Lavallie, 
Souvenir de la Malmaison, Horace Vernet, The Bride, Alphonse Soupert, 
La France, Franqois Michelon, and Souvenir d’Elise. Mr. R. E. West 
of Reigate was second with an excellent stand of Roses, but wanting in 
variety of colour. Messrs. Geo. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, were third 
with good but smaller blooms. In Class 2, for twelve Teas and Noisettes- 
(open), the first prize was awarded to the Rev. F. A. Burnside, of Much 
Birch, Hereford, for a fine stand of very clear and fresh blooms, con¬ 
sisting of Innocente Pirola, Anna Ollivier, Souvenir d’Elise, Hon. Edith 
Gifford, Madame Lambard, Marshal Niel, Souvenir de Gabrielle Drevet 
(a very pretty new Rose), Marie Van Houtte, Madame Cusin, Rubens^, 
and Madame de Watteville. Mr. F. Cant was second. In Class 3, for 
