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de Vitry, Triomphe de Rennes (very fine), Madame Vigneron, Madame 
Vidot, Leon des Combats, Comtesse de Chabrillant, Lord Raglan, 
Pius IX., Comte de Nanteuil, General Jacqueminot, Madame Livers 
(very fine), Victor Verdier, Anna de Diesbach, Prince Leon, Fran 9 ois 
Premier, La Ville de St. Denis, Jules Margottin, Paul Dupuy, 
Senateur Vaisse (a splendid flower). Due d’Orleans, and Pauline 
Lanzezeur; his 24 at Kensington were Victor Verdier, Madame 
Vidot, Triomphe des Beaux Arts, Gloire de Dijon, Madame Pauline 
Villot, Anna Alexieff, Virginal (very pure white), La Ville de St. 
Denis, Lord Raglan, Duchesse de Cambaceres, Mathurin Regnier, 
Eugene Appert, Souvenir de la Malmaison, General Jacqueminot, 
Madame Miellez, Dr. Bretonneau (too dull to please), Triomphe de 
Paris, Jules Margottin, Eveque de Nimes (no one can do this Power 
as Mr. Keynes does). Prince Leon, Comtesse de Chabrillant, Madame 
Rivers, and Madame Knorr. 
It were useless to transcribe further lists of names, although I have 
them, and the prize lists will give the names of the winners in each 
class. Roses, too, were so out of character that it would be idle to 
pronounce upon them positively. Before leaving this, however, may I 
ask right out something to be done as to the naming of the flowers. 
Many were altogether imongly named. People—amateurs especially— 
lose their tallies, and then put a name which they think correct, but 
which is often just the reverse, and hence others are led astray; and 
then as to spelling, alas! one wonders where the schoolmaster is—one 
may perhaps pardon Prairie de tair noir, but ought “ Yilage Maid ” 
to be passed over—one may pardon the curtailing of the Madame 
before Duchesse de Cambaceres, but is it quite fair to label “ Angle- 
terre” for “Souvenir de la Reine d’Angleterre.” Yet this is done. 
Granting that the French do give most absurd names, they ought to 
remain or else be altered by common consent; the “ Kotscouby ” has 
been, by common consent, subtracted from “ Prince Leon,” but in other 
cases there is no consent on the subject. There is one thing more, too, 
whatever may be the destinies of the future—happily we know not— 
but this, I think, will be found necessary, never to hold a Rose show 
in the conservatory at South Kensington again; by 4 o’clock all had 
fallen, the place being like an oven. Either under canvas or else in 
the corridors would better them; but it is melancholy to see the 
Floral Queen so draggle-tailed after a few hours’ of brief glory. Let 
us hope for a more favourable winter, and I believe that we may then 
look forward to such a Rose show next year as has never yet been 
seen, 
Dealj July 24. D. 
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT STRAWBERRIES. 
Most people, old and young, rich and poor, like Strawberries; they 
are so wholesome and delicious that all ages may eat them, even to 
excess, with impunit 3 \ No other fruit is so universally relished in 
this and other northern countries, where it can be successfully culti- 
