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THE COTIav?® OARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, September 25, 18G0. 
a pure white suffused on the outside lemon, 
three bright crimson feathers in front, an oran g e 
throat—a striking, bold flower, but of courJ e n ^ . 80 
much genuine substance as John Standish, vT 110 18 a 
pillar in the temple of Flora. ,. 1 
The next two best seedlings are of the John Stand.. 1 
cross, and are named Samuel Weymouth and Garibaldi, 
crimson and vermilion, and feathered flowers. I have 
made a selection of sorts from all the Gladioli there, 
which I shall give with some remarks on the family in a 
separate article. 
Roses in thirty-six sorts were from the Messrs. Paul, 
Keynes, and Francis, and the prizes stood as their names 
here. The Roses were remarkably good for this season. 
The following were the principals or best in each prize. 
Messrs. Paul had General Jacqueminot, Leon des Com¬ 
bats, Comtesse de Chabrillant (very full), Prince Leon, 
Duchess of Sutherland, La Reine, Alexandrine Baeh- 
metoff (very full and of a brighter red than in June and 
July), La Ville de St. Denis, Gloire de Dijon (very fine), 
Louise Perrony (ditto), Lord Raglan, Mad. Vidot, Tri- 
omphe deRenne3 (yellowish Noisette), Pio Nono, Aimee 
Vi’bert, Duchess of Norfolk, Mad. Villermoz, Madame 
Masson, Madame Bruni (a fine deep blush or peach- 
coloured Rose), Comte de Nanteuil, President (a fine Tea 
Rose salmon and buff), Jules Margottin, W. Jesse, and 
Baronne Prevost. Mr. Keynes began with Eveque de 
Nimes (as full as ever), Lord Raglan, Gustave Coraux 
(a fine dark Rose), Triomphe des Beaux Arts (ditto), 
Auguste Mie, La Reine, Acidalie, Jules Margottin, Alex¬ 
andrine Bachmetoff, General Jacqueminot, Pauline 
Lauzezeur (a fine crimson), Gloire de Dijon, Duchesse 
d’Orleans (very large lilacy Rose), Souvenir de la Reine de 
l’Angleterre (ditto), and Malmalson Rose (ditto). Mr. 
Francis began with Aimee Yibert, Pierre de St. Cyr, Jules 
Margottin, Mathurin Regnier, Standard of Sebastopol (a 
dark Rose), Oriflamme de St. Louis (quite as good as in 
July, one of the best of recent Roses), Gloire de Dijon, 
Gustave Coraux, Louis Perrony, Geant des Batailles, 
Prince Leon, Mad. Vidot, Devoniensis, Saffrano, Souvenir 
d’un Ami, and General Jacqueminot. 
In the class of twenty-four Roses in single blooms 
Mr. Keynes was first, Mr. Laing, Twickenham, second, 
and Messrs. Paul next. The kinds did not differ much 
from the above in this and the classes for amateurs, and 
the names of the winners are in the prize list. 
Phloxes. —Mr. Turner first, and Mr. Standish second. 
The best deep purple in Mr. Turner’s were l’Enfante Pro¬ 
digue (a splendid sort), Victor Hugo (ditto), Mr. Punch 
(fine rosy purple, with deeper eye), Madame de St. 
Innocent (very fine, and lighter by one shade than 
Punch), Mareschal G. St. Cyr (a lilacy tinge on a light 
purple ground). Best pure white Blanche, next shade 
Enchantress and Orion. 
Mr. Standish had his name, and that of Madame—two 
good Phloxes. His darkest purple were Louis Guerard, 
Apollon, and Dr. Boisduval. Next shade, Mons. de 
Boulot, Souvenir d’un Ami, and Mr. Punch. Lilacs and 
blushes were Mademoiselle Marie, Lady Mary, Madame 
Masson,—Hollyhocks. 
Verbenas were half or one-third bedding sorts, and 
two-thirds for pots, or goodness knows what, but real 
florists’ flowers, none of which is ever intended for flower 
gardening. They were in bunches of five trusses, each 
according to the schedule ; but there were not so many, 
the season being so much against them, and they must 
also have been grown under glass. They looked capitally, 
but, except the colour, nothing more can be learned from 
cut Verbenas, except by florists, for whom I am exempt 
by virtue of my calling. I took the names in Mr. Turner’s 
and Mr. Smith’s ; but Mr. Perry, of the Cedars, Castle 
Bromwich, took the first prize for them. Mr. Smith had 
more of my kinds, beginning with Leviathan, General 
Simpson, Formosum, Albion (a deep scarlet), Vesta, Etna ’ 
(fine), Palermo, Claudia (a new colour, a lilacy-purple 
, and shaded light eye), Mrs. Pennington (fiery scarlet and 
1 crimson), Mrs. Cotton Sheppard (a fine rose with a large 
» white eye—a splendid bedder in the Experimental, the 
i best there this season), Snowflake, Professor (a fine rose), 
Agar or Ajax (crimson), Ocean Pearl (mulberry-purple 
with white eye), Cato (a streaked thing), Conqueror (ruby 
colour), Red Rover (scarlet), Madame Perdier (a striped 
or carnation scarlet), Jupiter (a fine scarlet bedder P), 
Striata' P erf,ec |; a > Star > and Mrs. McLean. 
Mr. Tu7 uer ’ 8 Garibaldi and Mrs. Moore are two fine 
pleasing sorts of the same caste a soft purplish blue with 
white eye. The)’ w °Md make a glorious new bed if they 
will stand sun and rk.' n- King of Verbenas (light purple 
and white eye), II Trova. f °k e (next dark shade after Geant 
des Batailles), Snowflake, Ma’^n'dcus, Geant des Batailles, 
Apollo (dirty red), Mrs. SpenceC ( re d), Beatrice (mottled, 
lilac, and purple, the best of the i? QC J singularities in 
colour),Zampa (the best mulberry-purple, Jooks beautifully 
rich),{Mrs. McLean, Victor Emmanuel (a fiercC; Aery, dark 
crimson with a dark eye), Attraction (well named, being a 
lighter edition of Zampa), Sultan (the darkest of i?ll), 
Le Gondolier (a deep rose self), Venus (light), Bellopi 
(rosy), Julie (all but Lady Middleton or lavender shade 
of lilac), Dr. Sankey (a shot-silk purple and white eye), 
Lizzie, and Celestial. 
As to Dahlias there is no end to them, and as far as 
sight goes there is no improvement in them for the last 
ten years; but judged as florists do, they are ten times 
better now than they were then. The best one there, a 
new seedling, is named in compliment to Mr. Keynes, of 
Salisbury ; and if any mortal had named such a foxy- 
brown, dirty, dingy thing after me, I should be after 
knocking his head off ere long. So you see there are 
two ways of looking at Dahlias ; and if I took my way, 
and said which were best, the other side would get up a 
Garibaldi against me, and get the sceptre out of my 
hand, and between two stools, &c. But they allow me a 
certain length of tether in the fancy class ; and as I never 
speak well of a bad colour, you may book the following 
which were in Mr. Dodds’ first-prize collection of twelves. 
Some of these are most extraordinarily beautiful, if we 
could but do them like him. Highland Mary (yellow 
picotee), Cleopatra (ditto), Souter Johnny (lilac ditto), 
Mary Sanders (light lilacy ditto), Garibaldi (fine purple 
picotee), Leopard (a light rose picotee), Flirt (a buff 
picotee), and a remarkable unnamed seedling, a French- 
white edged with deep lilac, in the way of Queen Mab. 
The following also took my fancy:—Queen Mab (white 
inside the petals, and a deep scarlet edge all round each 
—a remarkable flower), Emperor de Maroc (a fine dark 
purple slightly tipped with white), Elegans (the most 
elegant and most ladylike of all the flowers I ever saw, 
light-lilacy ground streaked and spotted all over), 
Elizabeth (rosy blush), Countess of Bective (another 
lovely thing, carnation fashion, of deep rosy lilac and 
white), Pluto (dark purple-tipped), Florie de Kain. 
The following were the best Dahlia seedlings in the 
colour way :—Mr. Turner’s lot. The best flower, and the 
best ever produced for the flower garden, is named Madge 
Wildfire; it is a new colour — a bright orange-scarlet, 
like some bright Verbena. Princess of Prussia (a middle 
sized yellow), Duke of Wellington (a large dark flower), 
Elegans (the lady-like flower), Mrs. Lindsay (a nice lilac). 
Mr. Dodds’ seedlings were Marquis of Bowmont (very 
large, light lilac), Mrs. Dodds (fine yellow), and Mr. 
W. Fawcett (light lilac, deeply edged). 
Mr. Keynes’ seedlings—that is, the best from each 
grower—Andrew Dodds (all but black), Masterpiece (a 
nice shaded rose-purple), and Alice (a picotee on a rich 
lilac ground). 
German and French Asters were even better than 
last year, after all the rain and cold weather, and what is 
most singular, the prizes went very near the same as the 
last two years. Mr. Betteridge, of Milton Hall, near 
Steventon, Berks, took the first prize in German Asters ■> 
