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Roses planted thus would create a new effect in landscape scenery. The 
greatest want of our decorative art in the present day is breadth ; the second, 
which grows out of the first, is naturalness. We can grow Roses well, but the 
effective grouping, and the true place of Roses in landscape art, have yet, I 
believe, to be learnt, or at least practised. 
But Rose fences are useful, as well as ornamental. What gardener does not 
regret having to cut so many roses from where they are most needed for effect ? 
The love of flowers in our dwelling-houses has outrun our enlargement of the area, 
or means of culture. The demand is nearly always on the heels of our supply, not 
seldom it treads upon its toes. Dinner-table decorations, bouquets, the floral furnish¬ 
ings of drawing-rooms,churches, ball-rooms, &c., all drawfrom the garden,and tend 
to drain it dry. Under such demands, roses and other flowers disappear like snow 
in summer, leaving scarcely a petal behind. But no demand would be likely to strip 
a whole hedge of roses, or clear such tangled masses of beauty. And variety and 
quality could both be provided, as suggested by Mr. Tillery, by simply working per- 
petuals on to the strongest shoots of the common varieties. From such sources 
we could cut and come again, without any fear of greatly marring the effect or 
exhausting the supply. And then what a rich harvest of rose-leaves could be 
gathered for distillation into liquid sweetness, or for preservation in pickled jars • 
full of divinely fragrant pot-pourri!—D. T. Fish, F.R.H.S. 
THE ROYAL NATIONAL TULIP SHOW. 
f HIS Show was held at Cambridge, on the 25th of May. There was no 
lack of interest manifested by the growers, for they appeared in strong 
f force. All the classes were well filled, and the flowers generally were of 
very fine quality. Notwithstanding the counter attraction of the Exhibition 
of the Cambridge Horticultural Society, the tent, solely appropriated to the 
Tulips, was crowded by the general company ; in fact, the visitors seemed to find 
quite a new enjoyment in inspecting the gorgeous Tulips, which, though a little 
undersized, owing to the cold wet winter and trying spring, had a great deal of 
refinement about them. The premier prize for twelve Tulips, four of each 
division, was taken by Mr. S. Barlow, Manchester, with a very fine and pure lot 
of flowers, consisting of :— Bizarres: Garibaldi and Royal Sovereign, feathered ; 
Sir J. Paxton and Polyphemus, flamed. Byhloemens: Martin’s 101 and Talisman, 
feathered; Duchess of Sutherland and Bacchus, flamed. Roses: Mrs. Lea and 
Charmer, feathered; Aglaia and Rose Celestial, flamed. Very near to this stand 
came that of Mr. Richard Headly, whose flowers were large, and generally finely 
marked, but a trifle past their best, the colours having begun to run. Mr. Headly 
had:— Bizarres: Demosthenes and Richard Headly, feathered; Prince of Wales 
and Dr. Hardy, flamed. Byhloemens: W. E. Gladstone and Mrs. Pickerell, 
feathered: John Kemble and John Thorniley, flamed. Roses: Sarah Headly 
and Queen of Roses, feathered; Semiramis and Circe, flamed. 
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