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Cerasus Caproniana variegata (The Hautbois Cherry with 
striped leaves). S. of Europe. 
C. padus argentea (The silver-leaved Bird Cherry). Britain. 
Fagus purpurea (The Purple Beech). Germany. 
F. sylvatica atro-rubens (The dark-red-leaved Beech). Britain. 
F. sylvatica cuprea (The copper-coloured Beech). Britain. 
F. sylvatica foliis argenteis (The silver-leaved Beech). Britain. 
F. sylvatica foliis aureis (The golden-leaved Beech). Britain. 
Fraxinus excelsior argentea (The silver-barked Ash). 
F. excelsior atro-virens aurea (The golden-barkod dark-green- 
leaved Ash). 
F. excelsior lutea (The yellow-margined Ash). 
F. heterophylla variegata (The variegated various-leaved 
Ash). 
F. virens variegata (The green variegated-leaved Ash). 
Juniperus Vvrginiana argentea (The silver-striped Red Vir¬ 
ginian Juniper). 
J. Virginiana aurea (The gold-striped Red Virginian Juniper). 
Populus laisamfera variegata (The variegated Balsam 
Poplar). 
Fyrus aucuparia foliis variegatis (The striped-leaved Mountain 
Ash). Britain. 
P. communis (The variegated-leaved common Pear). Britain. 
P. nivalis (The snowy-leaved Pear). Austria. 
Quercus cerris variegatis (The variegated-leaved Turkey Oak). 
S. of Europe. 
Q. coccinea (The scarlet-leaved Oak). N. America. 
Q. ilex variegata (The striped-leaved Holly Oak). Eranco. 
Q. pedunculata foliis variegatis (The striped-leaved long- 
stalked common Oak). Britain. 
Q. pedunculata purpurea (The purple-leaved common Oak). 
Britain. 
Q. sessiliflora pubescens (The silver-haired stalkless Oak). 
Britain. 
Tilia Europcea platyphylla aurea (The golden-leaved broad¬ 
leaved European Lime). Britain. 
T. Europcea variegata (The striped-leaved European Lime). 
Ulmus Americana foliis variegatis (The variegated American 
Elm). 
U. campestris foliis aureis (The golden-striped-leaved English 
field Elm. 
TJ. campestris foliis argenteis (The silver-striped-lcaved English 
field Elm). 
U. glabra variegata (The variegated smooth Elm). Britain. 
TJ. montanapurpurea (The purple-leaved Scotch Elm). 
TJ. suberosafoliis variegatis (The variegated Cork-barked Elm). 
Britain. T. Appleby. 
GRAND NATIONAL ROSE SHOW AT THE 
CRYSTAL PALACE —June 12th. 
Fobtune has favoured the hrave from the days of the 
Romans to this Crystal Palace Rose Show, when Roses 
in the new style and the newest style of Rose were 
brought together; and the best Perpetual Rose in the 
first-prize stand for new Roses is the nearest in looks to 
our old Cabbage Rose since the advent of that beautiful 
sweet lady of foreign name and lineage, the Baronesse 
Prevost, as we say here, and the “ Baronne Prevo,” as 
they say in France. It is a good sign to begin at the 
bottom step of the ladder, wherever you aspire to, and to 
get up, step by step, to the top, from good to better, and 
from better to best. From St. James’s Hall to the 
Hanover Square Rooms, and thence to the height of 
Sydenham, is how the National Association in the favour 
of Roses reached the top round. And they did reach it, 
without any mistake or misgiving. The Show was grand, 
the arrangements were complete throughout, the day w T as 
fine, and the company were most numerous and highly 
gratified ; and of all the shows I ever attended, I never 
saw so many note-books and reading of names. I kept 
to it as close as Spergula keeps to the surface, from 
10 a.m. to a quarter to 3 p.ji. ; and what with the pressure 
in front against the barrier-ropes, and the pushing on 
both sides and the other side, with steel hoops in mauve, 
light lilacs, and azuro blue, I was marked just like a 
Highland steer going to a Falkirk tryst in the days of 
the Georges. You never saw anything like it—at least, 
I did not. If the flowers had been arranged on a single 
run of platform, they would have dipped into the crystal 
fountain at one end, and into the bronze fountains at the 
other; but the platform was double, with pot Roses, and 
furnishing plants down the centre, occupying the north 
end from the great transept. 
The prize list will show the results of the competition, 
but not the extent of it, or anything like it. 
The most striking sign of the Show and of the times 
was, that a man who never was suspected of knowing more 
than a Cabbage Rose from a Provence Rose, should take 
the first prize in the class he entered in, and showed 
better Roses than were ever seen in that class, or almost 
in any other; and I shall give a sketch of how he placed 
them for effect lower down; and Mr. John Keynes, of 
Salisbury, is this young Norval, who thus won his spurs 
at the first clash of arms. 
The neatest-placed Roses for the drawing-rooms were 
those from J. T. Hedge, Esq., Reed Hall, Colchester, 
and he had a deservedly first prize in that class. He 
packed his boxes first with common moss, as others do 
and did, and the top he turfed all over with another very 
dwarf moss, cut into turves of a few inches each way 
and his Roses, of course, looked better in the eyes ot 
many ladies than any others, on account of this high 
finish, just as our flower-beds will look so much the 
better when they show in the midst of Spergula turf. 
The different kinds of moss in which the rest of the 
Roses were shown, looked just as ragged and jagged 
compared to this as our mossy banks and slopes of cut 
Grass do by the side of Spergulas. 
A box of Cloth of Gold Rose, from Mr. Cant, was the 
finest sample of that kind ever seen in England; Isabella 
Grey was not there at all, nor were other yellow ones 
very prominent; General Jacqueminot w r as the best- 
coloured Rose there; Eugene Appert is darker and of 
more velvety substance, but that does not improvo the 
clean clearness of a distinct colour; Cardinal Patrizzi 
is the next darkest; then Lord Raglan; Emperor 
Napoleon is darker and of the blood of Eugene Appert, 
but not a good-shaped Rose ; Triomphe des Beaux Arts 
is a very beautiful dark Rose ; Anna de Diesbach, a 
splendid Rose, was universally asked about; Anna Alexieff 
again, a fine crimson Rose, the same; Altesse Imperiale, 
a splendid dark velvety crimson ditto; Exfque de Nines, 
the same ; Comtesse de Cecile de Chabrilliant, very largo 
satin Rose; Leon des Combats, very large purple crimson; 
Oriflamme de St. Louis is a magnificent thing, rich as 
its mother General Jacqueminot; Louis Ghaix, another 
most beautiful crimson; Victor Trouillard, a fine, glossy, 
purplish crimson. The most common in all the stands 
were, Geant des Batailles, General Jacqueminot, Lord 
Raglan, General Simpson, Madame Vidot, Airs. Rivers, 
Comte de Manteuil, Boule de Nanteuil, Shalcespear, La 
Reine, Madam Hasson, Jules Margottin, Paul Ricaut, 
Paul Perras, Caroline de Sansal, Auguste MiS, William 
Griffith, Gloire de Dijon (Tea), Triomphe de Paris, 
Madame Sector Jacquin, Charles Lawson, Baccdius, Devo- 
niensis, Alexandrine Batchmetoff, and Pio JSono. The 
yellowest were, Cloth of Gold, Viscomte de Cases, Mrs, 
Siddons, Solfaterre, Gloire de Dijon, I ellow China, 
Auguste Yaeher, a fine, coppery Tea Rose; but l ea, 
Roses were not numerous. The great battle was with 
the Hybrid Perpetuals, a few Bourbons, and Gallicas. 
I have the names of the kinds in two-thirds of the 
collections, large and small; and the bare names would 
fill ten pages of The Cottage Gaedenee, and be of little 
use after all. But Mr. Keynes’s arrangement of them in 
two rows, and being for the first time, here they go in 
pairs, three blooms of each:— Madam Rivers, light, and 
Pauline Lansezeur, deep rose ; Souvenir de Leveson Gower 
and Juno; Madame Enorr and General Jacqueminot ,- 
Comtesse dc Chabrilliant and Enfant de 71/ onl Carmel; 
Prince Leon and Gloire dc Vitry; Stephanie Beuharnois, 
