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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[July, 
and illison’s King. 3rd, Mr. Alfred Spurr, with 
Catherine, Lord E. Cavendish, and Orleans. 4th, 
Mr. T. Spurr, with John Brook, Duchess of Suther¬ 
land, and Apollo. 5tli, Mr. E. Lister, with Queen 
of England. Lord E. Cavendish, and Vanhamburg. 
6th, Mr. J. Steele, with Catherine, Pilot, and 
Duchess of Sutherland. 7th, Mr. It. J. Sharpley, 
with John Brook, Isabella, and Hardwick’s Seedling. 
8t.h, Mr. W. Mellor, with Paxton, Industry, and 
Duchess of Sutherland. 9th, Mr. G. Gill, with 
Paxton, Mrs. Longbottom, and Ethel. 10th, Mr. 
Ben Lumb, with Mabel, IVillison’s King, and Maid 
of Orleans, 11th, Mr. G. Lumb, with Mabel, 
Hardwick’s Seedling, and Hardwick’s Seedling. 
Single blooms : Bizarres. —1st, Mr. It. J. Sharpley, 
with Charles Darwin. 2nd, Mr. J. Hardwick, with 
John Brook. 3rd, Mr. G. Gill, with William Lea. 
4th, Mr. E. Lister, with Willison’s King. 5th, Mr. 
P. J. Sharpley, with Hardwick’s Seedling. 6th, 
Mr. J. Netherwood, with Lord E. Cavendish. 7th, 
Mr. J. Hardwick, with Dr. Hardy. 8th, Mr. J. 
Netherwood, with Lord E. Cavendish. Boses , 1st, 
Mr. T. Spurr, with Mabel. 2nd, Mr. J. Hardwick, 
with Annie McGregor. 3rd, Mr. P. J. Sharpley, 
with Mabel. 4th, Mr. G. Gill, with Mrs. Long- 
bottom. 5th, Mr. Alfred Spurr, with Catherine. 
6th, Mr. G. Gill, with Annie McGregor. 7th, Mr. 
J. Steele, with Catherine. 8th, Mr. G. Lumb, with 
Industry. Bybloemens, 1st, Mr. T. Spurr, with Van¬ 
hamburg. 2nd, Mr. G. Gill, with Maid of Orleans. 
3rd, Mr. T. Spurr, with Vanhamburg. 4th, Mr. G. 
Gill, with Ethel. 5th, Mr. E. Lister, with Duchess 
of Sutherland. 6th, Mr. J. Netherwood, with M. H. 
Fawcett. 7th, Mr. J. Steele, with a Seedling. 8th, 
Mr. G. Lumb, with Miss Nightingale. 
The Premier Prizes for the best feathered, 
flamed, and breeder flowers in the show were 
taken by Mr. G. Gill for the feathered flower, 
with Criterion ; by Mr. R. J. Sharpley for the 
flamed flower with Sir Joseph Paxton ; and 
by Mr. R. J. Sharpley for the best breeder 
with Isabel.—T. M. 
SAMUEL BARLOW.* 
§ HE name of Samuel Barlow is one held 
in great esteem and reverence by Lan- 
<||3 cashire florists. He is their trusted 
leader and representative. If any 
floricultural enterprise is undertaken the aid 
of Samuel Barlow is invoked, and it is never 
asked for in vain in a worthy cause. Stake- 
hill House, Castleton, near Manchester, the 
residence of Mr. Barlow, is situated about 
eight miles from Manchester on the Rochdale 
road, and immediately contiguous to Oldham, 
and is a kind of pilgrimage place for florists, 
and there is always something to be seen 
calculated to excite wonder and impart delight, 
btakehill may be taken as the centre of an 
* Amociated with the reports of the lioyal National and 
other lulrp Shows, we are happy to he able, thanks to the 
editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle, to give the accompanying 
portrait and memoir of our excellent friend, S. Barlow, Esq., 
the acknowledged leader of the Tulip fancy, and a most suc¬ 
cessful Tulip grower. 
active floricultural circle ; it is near to Mid¬ 
dleton, that home of florists, with its environ¬ 
ment of floral shrines. Hundreds of men 
living quiet, unobtrusive lives have grown 
florists’ flowers with great success, obtained 
honours, raised meritorious varieties, and 
gone down to their graves honoured and 
lamented, their actions blossoming sweetly in 
their dust, their good deeds remembered and 
imitated by their successors. 
Mr. Barlow, whose portrait will be found 
on page 101, was born in 1825, and received 
the rudiments of that education, for the com¬ 
pletion of which he is so much indebted to 
his own perseverance and natural love of 
study, at the village school of Woodhouses— 
the original of BenBrierley’s “ Model Village,” 
and near to Daisy Nook. At an early age 
he commenced to work in the bleach works 
of Messrs. Otho Hulme and Sons, Medlock 
Vale, his father being at that time manager. 
Working all day, and spending his evenings 
at the night class at Woodhouses, the boy 
was assiduously preparing himself for the 
busy and useful career which was in store for 
him. To the character of his father much of 
that which most honourably characterises the 
son, as well as his ardent love of plants, and 
especially of florists’ flowers, is unquestion¬ 
ably due. The father was one of that band 
of earnest and enthusiastic working-men 
botanists who have done so much to create 
a love of beauty and sweetness in the too 
frequently unlovely life of the Lancashire 
manufacturing districts. The elder Mr. Barlow 
was the friend of Hobson, Crowther, Mellor, 
Buxton, Horsfield, and a host of other botanists, 
whose names and labours are still held in 
honourable remembrance. 
The floricultural tastes received in here¬ 
ditary succession from his father found expres¬ 
sion in early life. About 1832, when Mr. 
Barlow was seven years of age, his father gave 
him and his brother a shilling’s worth of seeds 
of mixed annuals, and allotted them a bed to 
sow them on. These were the first plants he 
was able to really call his own, and we have 
heard him say he will never forget the interest 
and delight he had in that bed—the hours he 
spent over it, and the joy he experienced 
when he discovered something new and before 
unknown to him. He remembers with un- 
