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THE COT I AGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, July 17, 1860. 
a splendid flat-faced Rose, and Giant des Batailles ; 
William Griffiths and the huge Malmaison Rose ; Eveque 
de Nimes and La Ville de St. Denis, another huge Rose. 
These were all in contrast, every pair. 
The Messrs. Paul put theirs very much in that style; 
and Mr. Laing, of Twickenham, the same. Mr. Cant, of 
Colchester; Mr. Cranston, of Hereford; and Mr. Mitchell, 
of Pilldown Nurseries, Maresfield, Sussex ; and Mr. Hol- 
lamby, of Tunbridge Wells, were fully as up to the mark 
as the Messrs. Paul; and Messrs. Rivers and Lane did 
not contribute. 
The pot Roses were very numerous, but not like the 
usual show-Roses in pots. After the public eye has been 
saturated with such Roses in pots as were at the last May 
Show, and at all such shows of late years, it seems asto¬ 
nishing to see little 32 and 24-pots by the score and dozen, 
and covered with green slime on the surface of the balls, 
and trumpery little Roses in them not worth the price of 
the pots. Were it not that Sir Joseph Paxton wa3 there 
when I arrived, and Mr. Grove the Secretary, and Mr. 
Houghton the Palace Manager, and that the three hailed 
the old Highlander with a “ cead faille dhui,” I should 
have insisted on the police removing the dirty part of the 
pots at any rate; so as that country people could not 
plead against charges of slovenliness by saying they had 
seen nasty, dirty, slimy pots with Roses at the Crystal 
Palace. I hope such a thing will never happen again; 
for our National Association for Roses deserves every 
encouragement in every shape we can think of; and every 
one of us ought to bo proud of his success, and help them 
both with money and with every species and every variety 
of encouragement. Other great shows seem more of 
sight-seeing than any real good they do ; but Rose shows, 
I can vouch for, are a real luxury and a good school for 
thousands and thousands, from the stratum over the plant 
Bath. Fourth, Mr. C. Turner, Slough. C. For 2-1 varieties, three trusses 
oj each variety. —First, Mr. J. Keynes, Salisbury. Second, Mr. It. Laing, 
Nurseries, Twickenham. Third, Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, licits. 
Fourth, Mr. G. Clarke, Nurseries, Streatham Place, Brixton Hill. 
Class 2.—To Amateurs Keeping a Gardener. —D. For 48 varieties, one 
truss of each variety.— First, J. T. Hedge, Esq., Keed Hall, Colchester, 
Essex. Second, Rev. S. R. Hole, Caunton Manor, Notts. Third, C. M. 
■Worthington, E q., Caversham Priory, Reading. Fourth, Mr. S. Evans, 
gardener to C. .1. Newdcgate, Esq., Arbury, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. 
E. For 24 varieties, one truss of each variety .—First, J. T. Hedge, Esq., 
Kecd Hall, Colchester, Essex. Second, Mr. S. Evans, gardener to C. J. I 
Newdegate. Esq., Arbury, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Third, Mr. Hudson, 
gardener to F. Barcbard, Esq., Hasted Place, Uekfield, Sussex. Fourth, 
W. Mercer, Esq., Hunton, Stuplehurst, Kent. E. For 12 varieties, one 
truss of each variety.— First, Rev. T. M. Wetherall. Hasley Vicarage, 
Newnham, Gloucestershire. Second, C. M. Worthington, Esq., Caver- 
sham Priorv, Reading. Third, Rev. S. R. Hole, Caunton Manor, Notts. 
Fourth, Mr. Terry, gardener to C. G. Puller, Esq., M.P., Youngsbury Park, 
Herts. 
Class 3.—To Amateurs not Keeping a Gardener. —G. For 21 varieties, 
one truss of each variety. —First, Mr. T. Mallet, St. Mary’s Gate, Notting¬ 
ham. Second, A Fryer, Esq., Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Third, Mr. T. 
AValker, Merton Street, Oxford. Fourth, T. Laxton, Esq., Stamford. 
II. For 12 varieties, one truss of each variety First,, A. Fryer, Esq., 
Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Second, Mr. H. Morris, Rose Villa, Caunton, 
Notts. Third, Mr. T. Mallet, St. Mary’s Gate, Nottingham. Fourth,'!'. 
Laxton, Esq., Stamford. 
Class!.— OrEN to Ann. For Roses in Pots.— I. For 21 Hoses, ill j 
twelve varieties, in pots not exceeding thirteen inches in diameter.— First, 
Messrs. Paul & Son, Nurseries, Cheshunt, Herts. Second, Mr. E. P. 
Francis, Nurseries, Hertford. J. For 50 Fuses, in twelve varieties, in pots 
not exceeding eight inches in diameter. —First, Mr. E. P. Francis, Nur¬ 
series, Hertford. Second, Mr. C. Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough. 
Class 5.—Open to All. New Roses.— K. For the best collection of 
Hoses not previously exhibited. — First, Messrs. J. At .1. Fraser, Lea 
Bridge Nurseries, Essex. Second, Mr. J. Standish, Royal Nursery, Bagshot. 
(By a truss is meant a Rose, with its buds and leaves, shown as cut from 
the t.ree.1 
The total visitors during the day amounted to 16.312, being 
admissions on payment, 13,443, by season tickets 2,869. 
BEGONIAS AND GLOXINIAS FROM LEAVES. 
exhibitors, and from three or four of the strata below and 
on each side of them. 
Of the new Roses for last year Anna Alexieff and 
Eugene Appert are said to make the best beds ; and the 
following as the best show Roses. Oriflamme de St. 
Louis, Altesse lmperiale, Comtesse Cecile de Chahrilliant, 
Anna de Dieshach (like Camellia elegans), Virginal 
(white), Princess Olympie (blush white). 
The best new Roses of this season are Celine Foster, 
a splendid yellow Noisette, shown by Mr. Standish; and 
one Hybrid Bourbon, like a maiden blush, called Made¬ 
moiselle Bonnair; a Cabbage-Rose-looking Hybrid Pro¬ 
vence called Armide; and a new colour, like old Vesta 
of thirty years back, and the nearest to scarlet, called 
Le Senateur Vaise, in the Messrs. Frasers’ first-prize 
collection; hut recollect, they are only best according to 
my fancy; Louis the Fourteenth, Hybrid Perpetual, in 
the same collection, seems a grand dark Rose. Altesse 
Lmperiale puts you in mind of Crimson Boursault just 
ready to open. Francis Arago in Mr. Standish’s new 
class is all but black ; and Stephanie Beuharnois, also in 
the same lot, is really a splendid thing. 
Mr. Turner, of Slough, exhibited a large basket of the 
Oscar Strawberry, a most noble-looking, dark, angled, j 
and cockscombed fruit, of which, no doubt, he has abun- : 
dance of plants; and Mr. Bragg, of Slough, had cut | 
Pinks, Pansies, and Sweet Williams ; and some one from 
Castle Bromwich, hear Birmingham, had a fine lot of cut 
and trussed-up Verbenas; but as I was just taking his 
name, a huge Cyclop-looking man pushed a Diana against 
my elbow, and my pencil went smack through a self- 
ventilating bonnet on the other side, and I ran off out of 
the Palace for fear of the police. D. Beaton. 
The following were the awards in the various classes :— 
Class 1.—To Growers for Sale.— A. For 100 varieties, three trusses of 
each variety. — First, Mr. J. Mitchell, Pilldown Nurseries, Maresfield. 
Second, Messrs. Paul & Son, Cheshunt, Herts. Third, Mr. E. Hollamby, 
Tunbridge Wells. Fourth, Mr. J. Cran6ton, Hereford. B. For 50 va¬ 
rieties, three trusses of each variety. —First, Mr. B. Cant, Colchester, 
Essex. Second Mr. E. Hollamby, Tunbridge Wells, Third, Mr. E. Tilly, 
“Would you oblige “Jane” with the proper method of 
propagating Begonias and Gloxinias from leaves ? ” 
Who will say that the above is not a pattern specimen of what 
an inquiry should be? It is very pleasant to attend to all the 
wishes of our readers and correspondents, and, as far as our 
knowledge permits, to try and meet their varied circumstances. 
But, when a press of business urges, and there is little time for 
weighing the importance of conflicting claims to be noticed, 
which is the case that will be apt to meet with prompt and im¬ 
mediate attention—one that we can scarcely make out what is 
wanted, after reading and re-reading some five or six pages of 
manuscript, or the one about which there can exist no vestige of 
a mistake, though presented to us in half that number of lines ? 
Talk of finding employment for women! Why, if inquiries on 
gardening are to be taken as any symptom of the “ coming events 
that cast their shadows before,” the difficulty will be to find 
employment for the men. 
Let this peg-topping, and corsetting, to be followed ere long 
with padding and hooping, as accompaniments of goat-beardmg, 
and the everlasting puffing of smoke from tobacco, that fast 
removes what little sense and brain were left to the poor tilings 
that can se® nothing so remarkable and beautiful in creation as 
their own sweet lovely selves, and where are we ultimately to find 
lucidity of judgment, clearness of apprehension, prompt decision, 
and straightforward directness of purpose, so necessary for form¬ 
ing business habits ?—where but among our pure, healthy-toned 
ladies, who dare to think and act upon their thoughts, and thus 
rise superior to all mere morbid conventionalism ? 
Already this clear-sightedness, this going direct to its aim, this 
next to despising all and everything that is sham, is bocoming 
alarming to the dawdling, dangling, dreamy, ever-approaching- 
to, but ever-hesitating, and never-know-what-they-would-be-at 
great young dons of society. When the fourth year, called by a 
burlesque fashion the ladies’ year, comes round, their fears rise to 
fever beat lest they should bo caught and pounced upon ; but 
they may rest in comfort—not one of such ladies would ever treat 
on conditions with them. They may tickle their vanity by 
seeming pleased with them as pretty toys, whilst all the while 
they regard them as useless drones in the great hive of humanity. 
With a natural tact, approaching the inspiration of genius, an in¬ 
telligent woman can soon perceive that such triflors arc thoroughly 
incapable of loving anything or anybody so much as they do 
