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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
May 29. 
himself and all the rest of them ; hut, like the Pelargo¬ 
niums, Roses will soon, and must be divided into two 
classes for competition. Tea and Noisette in the 
“ Eaucy,” and Hybrid Perpetuals and all Summer Roses 
in the other group. 
The following Tea Roses were in Mr. Francis’ collec¬ 
tion, Souvenir dun Ami , Devoniensis, Adam, and Ne- 
plietos; then Coupe d'Hebe, Baronne Prevost, Paul 
Ricaut, Aubernon, and the rest as in Mr. Lane’s group. 
Mr. Francis had the second gold Knightian medal 
for these. 
The private growers are every whit as forward as the 
nurserymen. A new exhibitor, a next-door neighbour 
to Mr. Fish, had a collection of twelve Roses there very 
nearly as good as those from the giants ot the trade. 
His card is Mr. Busliby, gardener to S. Crawley, Esq., 
Stockwood Park, Luton. He received a first gold 
Knightian medal for them, and richly deserved it; but 
he had one very serious fault, which may easily be 
remedied another time, namely, the fancy-printed names. 
No one could read them a yard off. I can often see 
twelve months “ a-headbut if I had not known the 
Roses, I could not tell the names of any of them beyond 
the first row; and every one who passed, during the 
time I stood before them, asked the name of “that 
splendid new Rose.” It was Auguste Mie! but the 
fancy-printing could not be read; but his best Rose 
was Leon de Combats, which is almost as good as Geant 
des Batailles. Madame Lamoriciere and Baron Hallez 
were equally fine, and the rest were of the more usual 
kinds, as above. 
The second gold Knightian, for a dozen, was won by 
A. Rowland, Esq., whose Macassar and other perfumes 
make the hair stand on end all over the world. Of all 
the Rose growers, Mr. Rowland has made the greatest j 
stride for the last two years; Countesse Mole, Augustin 
Mouchelet, and Blairii, No. 2, were among his best. 
Mr. Terry, gardener to Lady Giles Pullen, of Youngs- | 
bury, Herts, had the next gold medal, a Banksian. 
Countesse de Tolosan, a large, flat,blush Noisette Rose; 
Marquis Boulla, William Jesse, the Malmaison Rose, 
and the yellow Tea Viscountesse de Cazes, were his most 
conspicuous ones. 
Mr. Sage, gardener to R. Robinson, Esq., Hill House, 
Acton, had a collection of twelve fine Roses; the best of 
them were Paul Ricaut, La Reine, Eugenie des Gaches, 
La Pactole, Baronne Prevost, Du Petit Thours, Charles \ 
Duval, Caroline de Sansel, a fine blush ; Elise Sauvage, I 
Amandine, and Acidale. 
NEW ROSES. 
Mr. Paul, of Chesliunt, sent thirty kinds of new 
Roses in No. 10 pots, very nice plants, with two, I 
three, to half-a-dozen flowers on each, besides flower ; 
buds. The following are what I would choose, and the , 
order of the selection. Of Hybrid Perpetuals, Prince 
Leon, like a dark red La Reine; General Castellane, 
crimson; Barone deKermont, rose; Helen (Paul’s), like { 
an old blush Province Rose ; Comte dNanteuil, like a 
blush Posony; Jules Margottin, a good red rose; Leon j 
Plee, a blush; Louise Odier, a large trusser, rose; , 
Madame Hector Jacquin, rose, or like Camellia elegans ; i 
Madame Ducliere, a light blush-rose; Prince Albert 
(Paul), a Bourbon Rose of the highest colour, and j 
seems a strong grower; and Duchess of Norfolk, not so 
double or so dark as it was exhibited last year by Mr. 
Wood, of Maresfield. 
PELARGONIUMS. 
Mr. Turner, of Slough, is now the best grower of them , 
in Englaud. The best in his collection, according to ! 
the distinction of colour and showiness, or as ladies i 
judge them, were Basilisk, the best scarlet there; Go¬ 
vernor General, the second; Magnet and Magnificent, 
the next two; and Petruchio, one of the best of the new 
ones, and all in the same strain. After them, Queen of 
May, Carlos, Exactum, and Sanspareil, were the most 
distinct and beautiful. The Governor General and 
Sanspareil are still at a high figure, and Petruchio can¬ 
not be had under a guinea; but Rosamond, the best 
flowered, and the largest Geranium plant there, exhibited 
by Mr. Turner as a single specimen, can be had for a 
shilling. 
Mr. Dobson, of Isleworth, had the second best collec¬ 
tion, in which there were three or four of the new 
French streaked ones, or else imitations of them; Peer¬ 
less, a flat, scarlet flower, is very good. 
The best gold medal, to private growers, was given to 
Mr. Windsor, gardener to A. Bligli,Esq., of Hampstead, 
for a dozen, of which these were the best, Forget-me-not, 
an orange-scarlet; Virgin Queen, Pearl, Ajax, and Little 
Nell. 
The second gold medal for them, was given to 
Mr. Todman, gardener to Mrs. Buckmaster, and the 
cream of them were Governor, Sparkler, a large half 
white one, Holla, Beatrice, and Aspasia. 
TALL CACTI. 
There was a collection of them from Mr. Green, as 
usual, and one called Greenii, after himself, is the best 
hybrid Cactus in the country; a seedling from crenata, 
and called grandiflora, does not deserve that name, as it 
is not so good or so large as the mother. Is it not 
strange that we have not yet broke into a new strain 
through crenata ? Mr. Green sent a beautiful single 
specimen of Tetratheca ericifolia, of which ladies are so 
fond, owing to the soft tint of rosy-lilac, and the pro¬ 
fusion of bloom. 
FANCY GERANIUMS 
Were numerous ; but the sorts were not so good as we 
shall have next month. They were too dark as a 
whole. Mr. Robertson, gardener to J. Simpson, Esq., 
of Pimlico, had the brightest-coloured ones; but Mr. 
Windsor, of Hampstead, took the first prize for them in 
the Amateur Class; and Mr. Turner, of Slough, the 
best to the first nurserymen ; while Mr. Fraser and Mr. 
Gains followed with second and third prizes. 
Cinerarias were not much different from those 6hown 
in Regent Street on the 8th, and the same growers had 
the prizes as then ; and also for the Pansies. 
Very gay Auriculas were shown again by Mr. Turner ; 
and Mr. Wilmer, of Sunbury, exhibited a collection of 
them. 
Calceolarias have been ruiped by fioristical fancies, 
and we had only one lot from Mr. Gay, gardener to 
J. Goldsmid, Esq., Regent’s Park. The Auricula was 
an old show iiower in 1832, when the Calceolaria first 
appeared, and now they seem on a par at the Horticul¬ 
tural Society. 
Mr. Henderson, of the Pine-Apple Place Nursery, 
sent a collection of plants, mostly new ones, of which a 
a splendid scarlet Verbena, called Mrs. Woodroof, will 
be the most generally useful; and the rarest was a Fern 
in flower (Osmunda), which was introduced from North 
America this spring, or last autumn, by Mr. Low, of 
Clapton. Mr. Low, the younger, a chip of the old block, 
spent the “long vacation” last autumn in North 
America, and picked up many plants, of which we knew 
very little, or had little of in the trade. 
Mr. Garaway, of Bristol, sent a fine-bloomed plant of 
the “inverted Tulip,” under the name of Genetyllis 
tulipifera; and Mr. Veitch sent another of it with the 
true name, Hedaroma; but his spelling was Hederorna. 
Now, who is right ? Mr. Backhouse sent it to Regent 
