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there was hardly a Rose in either exhibition up to its true character. 
It was curious to see how utterly untrue the season had made them— 
to see General Jacqueminot, instead of his brilliant scarlet coat, glorying 
in its freshness and purity, spotted and dashed as if he had have worn 
it through a field of gore on a day of mud and rain—to see her Grace 
of Sutherland, instead of the grand dignified beauty, no better than a 
China mandariness, with pinched features and little feet—or Comtesse 
Cecile de Chabrillant, displaying, not her exquisite lovely tint and 
shape, but looking as if she had forgotten that it was an exhibition 
day. What could they do, however, when they had to brave such 
weather as the last season ? They could no more expect to be neat 
and trim than the young ladies who, venturing on a yachting party, 
come home draggled and dishevelled—wind and rain, and sea-sickness 
and salt water, so sadly marring their appearance, as to lead a match¬ 
making mamma once to say to her bevy of marriageable daughters, 
“depend upon it, my dears, yachting is a mistake.” 
But now to the details. The greater portion of the stands exhibited 
were from the southern part of the kingdom; the midland counties 
having, I believe, suffered most from the frost, were not, contrary to the 
experience of former shows, represented. Mr. Keynes, of Salisbury, 
who only won his spurs last year, held a conspicuous place ; and Mr. 
Cranston, of Hereford, re-occupied the ground won from him last year. 
Amongst amateurs, Mr. Hedge, of Colchester, still stood conspicuous, 
winning several of the first prizes, while our valued contributor, Mr. 
Radclyffe, of Rushton, took a place that his zeal and love of the flower 
justly entitles him to hold, winning a first prize at Kensington with a 
remarkably fine box for the season. 
In the class of new Roses of 1860 and 1861 several boxes were 
shown at both exhibitions. At the Crystal Palace, Mr. Standish, of 
Bagshot, was first, and Messrs. Fraser, of Lea Bridge Road, second. 
Mr. Standish’s box contained Madame Furtado, Abd-el-Kader, John 
Standish, Princesse Clothilde, Gregoire Bourdillon, Marguerite Appert, 
Andre Desportes, Madame Standish, John Watson, Eugene Appert, 
Reine des Violettes, Mademoiselle Bonnaire, Comte de Falloux, Louis 
XIV., Reynolds Hole, and Ophelia. Messrs. Fraser’s were, Madame 
Furtado, Mademoiselle Bonnaire, Prairie de terre noire, Triomphe de 
Lyon, Eugene Appert, General Washington, Barlow, Victor Verdier, 
Louis XIV., Vainqueur de Solferino, Belle de Bourg, La Reine, Par- 
mentier, and Reine des Violettes. At South Kensington, Messrs. 
Fraser and Mr. Cant, of Colchester, ran a tie as first; the flowers 
were, Abd-el-Kader, General Washington, Due de Cazes, Madame 
Furtado, Princesse Mathilde, Madame Pauline Villot, Madame Charles 
Crapelet, Le Senateur Vaisse, Victor Verdier, Eugenie Verdier, and 
Louis XIV. Mr. Cant’s, La Boule d’Or (Tea), Eugene Appert, Victor 
Verdier, Madame Charles Crapelet, Rubens, Gloire de Santhenay, 
Louis XIV., Madame Boll, Victor Emmanuel, Due de Magenta (Tea), 
Buffon, and General Forey. Mr. Standish took second, owing mainly 
to the smallness of his flowers, with Reynolds Hole, Marguerite Appert, 
Eugene Appert, Madame Standish, Triomphe d’Amiens, Andre Des¬ 
portes, Madame Furtado, John Standish, Gregoire Bourdillon, Comte 
