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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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Gray, Sevenoaks, with Etienne Levet. Nine boxes of six blooms, any Tea 
or Noisette, were also staged, the Rev. J. H. Pemberton leading with Anna 
Ollivier, beautiful, followed by Mr. C. S. Cuthell withMarbchal Niel, Miss 
W. Taylor with Catherine Mermet, and Mr. Bethune with Innocente Pirola, 
all good. 
OPEN CLASSES. 
Twelve classes were enumerated under this head, the majority being 
devoted to stands of one variety, but a few were for general collections as in 
tbe first for twelve Teas triplets, in which there were eleven competitors. 
Mr. G. Prince again won leading honours with superb blooms of the varieties 
Comtesse de Nadaillac, Souvenir d’Elise Yardon, Hon. Edith Gifford, Prince 
of Wales, Marechal Niel, Innocente Pirola, Catherine Mermet, JeanDucher, 
Alba Rosea, Perle des Jardins, Francisca Kruger, and Rubens. Mr. B. R. 
Cant followed with a good stand, Madame Cusin being in splendid condition. 
Messrs. Paul & Son were third and Mr. F. Cant fourth. 
An extremely interesting class was that devoted to “ Garden Roses,” as 
distinguished from the ordinary exhibition varieties, and in which a number 
of old favourites were shown. Of the five competitors Mr. Julius Sladden 
secured the chief prize with pretty examples of the undermentioned 
varieties :—Rosa multiflora, Ma Capucine (Tea), Jules Margottin (H.P.), 
Princess Clementina (Provence), Bougere (Tea), Madame Fillion (H.P.), 
Celine Forestier (Noisette), Amabilis (Tea), Olga Marix (H.P.), La Ville 
de Bruxelles (Damask), Fabvier (China), Homere (Tea), Miss Hassard 
(H.P.), Narcisse (Noisette), Madame Plantier (Hybrid China), and Fillem- 
berg (Noisette). Mr. J. Walker’s second-prize stand also contained some 
interesting varieties, Messrs. Bunyard & Co. and Mr. W. Rumsey being the 
other prizetakers with similar collections. The Moss and Provence Roses from 
Messrs. Paul & Son, Cranston, G. Prince and Bunyard were all very pretty, 
the best in the first stand being Baron de Wassenaar, Perpetual White, 
Little Gem, Common Moss, and Lanei. 
Buttonhole Roses had a class devoted to them, and the seven col¬ 
lections entered contained some charming little buds. Mr. J. Mattock won 
the first place with exquisite examples of Anna Ollivier, Madame Lambard, 
Innocente Pirola, W. A. Richardson, David Pradel, Madame Falcot, Marie 
Van Houtte, Souvenir de Paul Neyron, Catherine Mermet, Homere, Ma 
Capucine, and Rubens. Messrs. Cranston, who were second, had neat buds 
of Charles Darwin, Fisher Holmes, and Bouquet d’Or in addition to many 
of the preceding. Messrs. Bunyard & Co. followed, Homere and Madame 
Cusin being two of their best. 
New Roses were only shown by two exhibitors, and the blooms were not 
of remarkable merit in any of the stands. Messrs. Curtis, Sanford & Co. 
were first with Marquise de Romain, Admiral Seymour, Mrs. G. Dickson, 
Mdlle. L’Annier, Madame Raimbaud, Lord Bacon, Directeur Alphand, 
Madame Dellevaux, Mdlle. Julie Gautain, Mary Bennett, Baron de Roth¬ 
schild, and Souvenir de Leon G?.mbetta. Messrs. Paul & Son were second 
with Pride of Reigate, Madame Alice Van Geert, Queen of Queens, Marechal 
P. Wilder, Benoist Comte, Grace Darling, Madame Norman Neruda, Long¬ 
fellow, Madame de Watteville, Eclair, Sunset, and M. Francisque Reve. For 
twelve blooms of any new Rose not in commerce in England previous to 
1883, Mr. B. R. Cant was first with Madame de Watteville, a lovely rose- 
tinted Tea variety previously noted. Messrs. Curtis, Sanford & Co. were 
second with Alphonse Soupert, and Messrs. Cranston third with Merveille 
de Lyon. 
The special variety classes formed a beautiful display, and included some 
extremely fine blooms. For twelve of any yellow RoBe Mr. G. Prince was 
first with Comtesse de Nadaillac, remarkably good. Messrs. Cranston were 
second with the same variety, and Mr. C. Turner third with Madame Mar¬ 
gottin. In the White variety class there were nine Btands of Merveille de 
Lyon, all very handsome, forming, indeed, one of the features of the Show. 
The prizes were won by Messrs. Curtis, F. Cant, and G. Paul. Fifteen 
stands of crimson RoseB were entered, Messrs. Cooling taking the lead with 
A. K. Williams, followed by Paul & Son with Alfred Colomb, and G. Prince 
with Ulrich Brunner, all handsome blooms. Dark velvety crimson Roses 
were not largely shown. Messrs. Curtis were first with Jean Lelievre, and 
Paul & Son Becond with Abel Carriere. 
With twelve blooms of any Rose Mr. H. Bennett, Shepperton, scored a 
success, for amongst fifteen competitors he was placed first with Her 
Majesty, of wonderful substance and very handsome, being followed by 
Messrs. Curtis, Sanford, & Co., with Ulrich Brunner, Mr. B. R. Cant with 
Souvenir d’Elise, and Mr. F. Cant with Mons. Noman, all remarkably 
beautiful examples of their respective varieties. Mr. Bennett’s other success 
in the seedling class is referred to in the introduction to this report. 
Miscellaneous exhibits, beyond the Carnations already mentioned and 
the magnificent collection of Roses from Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, were 
not numerous, but the display of hardy flowers was beautiful and 
extensive. 
The weather was very hot, necessitating the free ventilation of the con¬ 
servatory, and during the day the blooms suffered considerably, some even 
of the medal blooms losing all their charms in a few hours. There was a 
large number of visitors, much satisfaction was expressed with what was 
collectively a handsome exhibition. 
CRYSTAL PALACE. 
Many grand exhibitions of Roses have been held at the Sydenham 
Palace, and rosarians now regard it as one of the chief events of the year, 
but it is doubtful if so extensive a show as that of Saturday last has ever 
been provided there before. It was a great sucoess, and though even¬ 
ness of quality has been more notable on some previous occasions, yet 
there were abundance of blooms that could scarcely be surpassed either in 
substance, form, or colour. This was observable in nearly every stand, and 
the irregularity was attributed in most cases to the extremely dry weather 
that has prevailed for some time past. It seemed as though exhibitors had 
a difficulty in completing their stands, a proportion of very fine Roses were 
staged, and then the requisite number had to be made up of smaller and 
less satisfactory blooms. In the larger classes this was particularly notable, 
and especially so in the open class for seventy-two, which was one of the 
weakest as regards quality of blooms in the whole Exhibition. Some of the 
finest blooms were in the open classes for forty-eight triplets and twenty-four 
singles, and the competition in the latter was extraordinary, no less than 
seventeen boxes of blooms being staged, and occasioned the Judges no slight 
difficulty. In the Tea classes there was a greater regularity of blooms than 
amongst the H.P.’e, and indeed they were extremely good in the majority of 
instances, as fresh and substantial as could be desired, in the H.P.’s there 
was a good proportion of light and dark colours, which was very noticeable 
when viewing the long lines of blooms from each end of the tables, and 
this added much to the beauty of the Show, for while the dark shades were 
very rich and bright, the light tints were clear and pure as they should be. 
In all the leading classes the competition was very keen, and the bloom 
from the several exhibitors were so nearly equal in merit that the Judges 
had to give very careful consideration to them before they could determine 
their relative positions. A total of about 6000 blooms were entered in the' 
classes, and together with about the same number from Messrs. William 
Paul & Son of Waltham Cross constituted an exhibition of unusual mag¬ 
nitude. The competing blooms were arranged in four lines on two series 
of tables reaching from the fountain to the centre transept, the central 
space between the lines of boxes being occupied with Palms, Ferns, &c., 
which served to break the monotony and formality that exhibitions of this 
character inevitably possess. All the arrangements were most satisfactorily 
conducted by Mr. W. G. Head, who deserves much praise for the highly 
successful show he was the means of providing. 
Open Classes. —The most important of these is usually that for seventy- 
two single trusses, as the great Rose-growing firms put forth their utmost 
strength to insure success in what is often termed the champion class. This 
was not the case on Saturday, however, for even the renowned Mr. B. R. 
Cant of Colchester, who won premier honours, was not in his best form, 
and though his blooms were much superior to the others in the same class 
he has frequently exhibited finer and more even examples. He had blooms 
of the following varieties :—Ulrich Brunner, Innocente Pirola, Lord 
Macaulay, Magna Charta, Madame Prosper Laugier, Madame Bravy, Alfred 
Colomb, Niphetos, Boieldieu, Alfonse Soupert, Prince Arthur, La Boule 
d’Or, Duke of Wellington, Annie Laxton, Fisher Holmes, Marguerite de St. 
Amand, A. K. Williams, Yictor Verdier, M. Isaac Perriere, Madame Noman, 
Jean Soupert, Duchesse de Morny, Gdnhral Jacqueminot, Madame H. 
Jamain, Dr, Seville, Comtesse de Nadaillac, Countess of Rosebery, Marquise 
de Castellane, Star of Waltham, Souvenir d’un Ami, Mons. Alfred Dumesnil, 
Hon. Miss E. Gifford, Earl Pembroke, Emily Laxton, Xavier Olibo, Madame 
Nachury, Mrs. Baker, Madame Caroline Kuster, Eugene Fiirst, Baroness 
Rothschild, Horace Vernet, Madame Lacharme, J ules Margottin, Devoniensis, 
Marie Rady, Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, Madame Marie Verdier, Mademoiselle 
Julie Dymonier, Duke of Edinburgh, Marechal Niel, Fran?oiB Michelon, 
Madame Gabriel Luizet, Comtesse de Serenye, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Souvenir 
d’Elise Vardon, Dr. Andry, Duchesse de Vallombrosa, Marie Baumann, Marie 
Yan Houtte, Etienne Levet, Catherine Mermet, Abel Carriere, Mons. Noman, 
Dupuy Jamain, Marchioness of Exeter, Madame Ducher, VioletteBouyer, Le 
Havre, Merveille de Lyon, Sultan of Zanzibar, and Mademoiselle Marie 
Cointet. Messrs. G. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, were second, their blooms being 
rather less even and substantial, but there were some beautiful examples of 
Caroline Kuster, Senateur Vaisse, Beauty of Waltham, Ulrich Brunner, 
Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, Etienne Levet, and Madame Eugene Verdier. Mr. 
Turner, Slough, was third with somewhat rougher blooms. 
Four good collections were staged in the class for forty-eight triplets, 
and in this Messrs. Paul & Son won the chief position with rather full but 
handsome blooms, especially rich in colour. The varieties were Merveille 
de Lyon, Prince Arthur, Abel Carriere, Mons. Noman, Marguerite de St. 
Amand, Alfred Colomb, Marie Baumann, Countess of Oxford, Madame 
Gabriel Luizet, very fine ; Louis Van Houtte, Dr. Andry, Madame 
Lacharme, Capitaine Christy, Marie Rady, Etienne Levet, Marie Cointet, 
Pride of Waltham, Antoine Ducher, Horace Vernet, excellent ; Niphetos, 
Duchesse de Vallombrosa, Camille de Bernardin, A. K. Williams, extremely 
fine ; Francois Levet, Centifolia Rosea, Mrs. G. Paul, beautiful in size and 
colour ; Comte Raimbaud, Baron Rothschild, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, 
Xavier Olibo, Ulrich Brunner, very fine ; Clothilde Rolland, Franqois 
Michelon, Mons. E. Y. Teas, Beauty of Waltham, Violette Bouyer, Madame 
Eugene Verdier, Mons. A. Dumesnil, General Jacqueminot, Marquise de 
Castellane, Star of Waltham, Queen of Queens, Abel Grand, Victor Verdier, 
Duke of Edinburgh, Comte de Paris, Marie Verdier, and Duke of Teck. The 
second place was taken by Mr. B. R. Cant, who was not many points 
behind the first. Especially good were Comtesse de Nadaillac, La France, 
Madame Gabriel Luizet, Dupuy Jamain, Edouard Morren, Franqois Michelon, 
Etienne Levet, and Ulrich Brunner, of wonderful substance. This Rose was 
indeed remarkably well represented throughout the Exhibition. Mr. C. 
Turner was third with smaller blooms. 
The competition was keen in the class for twenty-four triplets, eight 
stands being entered, and they were all very close in merit, some of the best 
Roses shown being in this class. Mr. John House of Peterborough secured 
the premier prize with substantial and bright blooms of the following :— 
Baroness Rothschild, Beauty of Waltham, Duke of Teck, Madame Marie 
Verdier, Francois Michelon, Mons. E. Y. Teas, Dr. Andry, Violette Bouyer, 
Capitaine Christy, Louis Van Houtte, Fisher Holmes, Madame Gabriel 
Luizet, Madame Lacharme, Exposition de Brie, Marquise de Castellane, 
Marguerite de St. Amand, Magna Charta, Camille Bernardin, Horace Vernet, 
Duchesse de Vallombrosa, La France, A. K. Williams, Marie Baumann, 
Merveille de Lyon. Mr. W. Rumsey, Waltham Cross, and Mr. F. Cant, 
Colchester, followed in that order, an extra prize being awarded to Messrs. 
G. Cooling & Son, Bath. 
Of the seventeen exhibitors with twenty-four single trusses Mr. John 
House was again the most successful, gaining the first place with very 
beautiful blooms, forming one of the most even stands in the Show. The 
varieties were A. K. Williams, La France, Ulrich Brunner, Souvenir 
d’Elise Vardon, Horace Vernet, Violette Bouyer, Lord Macaulay, Franqois 
Michelon, Exposition de Brie, Marchioness of Exeter, Duchesse de Valloni- 
brosa, Niphetos, Alfred Colomb, Madame H. Jamain, Louis Van Houtte, 
Marechal Niel, Camille Bernardin, Madame Marie Verdier, Charles Lefebvre, 
Marquise de St. Amand, Beauty of Waltham, and Comtesse de Nadaillac. 
The second prize stand from Mr. F. Cant was a very good one and contained 
some excellent blooms, Madame Gabriel Luizet, Mons. Alfred Dumesnil, 
Etienne Levet, and Merveille de Lyon being uncommonly fine. Mr. G. 
Prince, Oxford, was third with bright but rather irregular blooms. 
The open class for Tea and Noisette Roses was for eighteen varieties, 
