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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ September, 
Ferdinand de Lesseps, Prince Camille de Rohan, 
Francois Michelon, and Marquise de Castellane were 
the leading flowers. Amongst the Teas and 
Noisettes, Mr. G. W. Piper, of Uckfield, was first for 
12, with a pretty lot of small blooms, including 
such sorts as Madame H. Jamain, Josephine 
Malton, Catherine Mermet, Safrano, Marie Guillot, 
Niphetos, Jean Ducher, Marie Yan Houtte, Com- 
tesse Riza du Pau, and Souvenir de Paul Neyron. 
For 6 blooms of any one sort of Hybrid Perpetual, 
Mr. B. R. Cant was first, with A. K. Williams; and 
in the corresponding class for a Tea or Noisette the 
same exhibitor took the first prize, with Devoniensis. 
In the Amateurs’ classes for 6 single blooms of any 
Hybrid Perpetual, the Countess of Leven and Mel¬ 
ville (Mr. Barry, gr.) was first with Francois 
Michelon. For 6 new Roses of 1878-9, Mr. Turner 
was first, with Duchess of Bedford, Charles Darwin, 
Countess of Rosebery, Paul Jamain, Madlle. 
Eugenie Verdier, and Mrs. Harry Turner. 
Tlie National Rose Society held its show at 
the Crystal Palace on July 2nd. The show 
was fairly well filled and generally good, though 
the date was full early, which was, perhaps, 
the reason why the nurserymen’s flowers were 
not up to the usual degree of merit; as it was, 
they were quite beaten by the amateurs, some 
of whom showed in excellent style. 
In the Nurserymen’s Division, Mr. B. R. Cant, of 
Colchester, took the 1st prize for 72 singles, 48 
trebles, and 24 trebles; his best flowers, in the stand 
of 72, being Duke of Edinburgh, Constantine Tretia- 
koff, Sophie Coquerelle, Madame Car. Kuster, Madlle. 
Marie Cointet, Annie Laxton, Devoniensis, General 
Jacqueminot, Mons. E. Y. Teas, Ed. Morren, Souvenir 
d’EliseVardon, Prince Arthur, Baroness de Rothschild, 
Dupuy Jamain, and Marquise de Castellane. In the 
48 trebles, Catherine Mermet, Mdlle. M. D’Ombrain, 
Madame F. Jamain, Louis van Houtte, Countess of 
Rosebery, Exposition de Brie, Madame P. LaDgier, 
Le Havre, Rubens, and Elio Morel were in good 
condition. 
For 24 Teas or Noisettes, Mr. G. Prince, of Ox¬ 
ford, was 1st, with medium-sized clean blooms of 
the following, amongst other sortsMadame Vil- 
lermoz, Catherine Mermet, Souvenir de Madame 
Pernet, Perle des Jardins, Belle Lyonnaise, Homere, 
Innocente, Pirola, Souvenir d’Elise Vardon, Anna 
Olivier, Rubens, and Souvenir d’un Ami. 
In the Amateurs’ Classes, Mr. R. N. G. Baker, of 
Heavitree, was a long way ahead of the other com¬ 
petitors in the classes for 48 singles, 24 singles, and 
12 trebles, the flowers being of extraordinary size, 
and remarkable for freshness and brilliancy of 
colour. The best blooms in his several stands were 
those of Marquise de Castellane, Duke of Edinburgh, 
Duchesse de Caylus, Mons. E. Y. Teas, Etienne 
Levett, Thomas Mills, Madame H. Jamain, Ferdinand 
de Lesseps, Alfred Colomb, A. K. Williams, Dr. 
Andry, Madame A. Lavallee, Dupuy Jamain, Beauty 
of Waltham, Comte de Raimbaud, Auguste Rigotard, 
Marguerite de Brassac, Marie Baumann, Penelope 
Mayo, La France, Mdlle. Marie Rady, and Hippolyte 
Jamain. For 12 Teas or Noisettes, Mr. C. Davies, 
of Aynhoe, was 1st, with fine fresh blooms of 
Marechal Niel, Mons. Furtado, Catherine Mermet, 
Belle Lyonnaise, Madame Caroline Kuster, Marie 
van Houtte, Souvenir de Paul Neyron, Comtesse 
Nadaillac, Souvenir d’un Ami, Jean Ducher, and 
Niphetos. 
For 12 new Roses, not in commerce previous to 
1878, Mr. Turner and Messrs. Paul and Son were 
awarded equal 1st prizes. The best blooms were 
those of Charles Darwin, Harrison Weir, Jules 
Finger, Wilhelm Koelle, a promising flower of the 
Marie Baumann type; Mrs. Harry Turner, Countess 
of Rosebery, very fine; Barthelemv Levet, a very 
good peach-pink; Duchess of Bedford, Egeria 
(Bennett), pink; Dr. Sewell, very dark; Madame 
Morane, rose-pink; and Madlle. Eugenie Yerdier. 
Mr. Turner was the only exhibitor of any new seed¬ 
ling Roses not yet in commerce or announced, and 
took a 1st prize, with General Roberts, a very good 
dark red, with good bold foliage. The Silver Medals 
offered for best blooms were awarded to A. J. 
Waterlow, Esq., Reigate, for Marie Rady, the best 
h.p. ; to Mr. C. Davis, Aynhoe, for Catherine 
Mermet, the best Tea; and to Mr. G. Prince, for 
Marechal Niel, the best Noisette. 
Tlie show of the Royal Botanic Society on 
July 6th was of limited extent, though the 
flowers were good. The 1st prizes were awarded 
to Mr. B. R. Cant, for 48 singles ; to Mr. Turner, 
for 24 trebles ; and in the Amateurs’ class, to 
Mr. G. W. Moorman, Coombe Bank, for 24 
trebles. 
The show at the Alexandra Palace on 
July 9 th was well filled, and the display was 
altogether of a superior character, the com¬ 
petition being keen, and the quality of the 
flowers much improved by the rain of the 
previous week. There was also a very effective 
display of four competing groups of a thousand 
rose-blossoms, set up with more or less design 
and taste, which formed a novel and imposing fea¬ 
ture, and added much to the interest of the show, 
at the close of which the flowers exhibited in 
these particular groups were sold to the 
visitors. This novel feature made the show, 
as a whole, one of the prettiest we have seen; 
indeed, it needed only a little more refinement 
in the staging to have been a perfect success. 
In the class for 72 singles, Mr. B. R. Cant, of 
Colchester, was 1st, the varieties shown being Prin¬ 
cess Beatrice, Marie Baumann, Madame Alice Dureau, 
Thomas Mills, Niphetos, Dr. Andry, Marquise de 
Castellane, Duke of Edinburgh, Madame Caroline 
Kuster, Comtesse d’Oxford, La Boule d’Or, Le 
Havre, Madame Nachury, Dr. Sewell, Souvenir de 
la Malmaison, Duke of Wellington, John Hopper, 
Fisher Holmes, Marguerite de St. Amande, Prince 
Arthur, Madame Bravy, Magna Charta, Jean Ducher, 
Emily Laxton, Innocente Pirola, Senateur Vaisse, 
Catherine Mermet, Madame Prosper Laugier, 
Comtesse de Nadaillac, Countess of Rosebery, 
Abel Grand, Madlle. Annie Wood, Comtesse 
de Serenye, Madame Clemence Joigneaux, 
Pierre Notting, Oliver Delhomme, Baroness Roths¬ 
child, Horace Vernet, Madame Ferdinand Jamain, 
Madame Etienne Levet, Jules Chretien, Yille de 
Lyon, Francois Louvat, Victor Verdier, Reynolds 
Hole, Pitero, Alfred K. Williams, Souvenir d’Elise 
Yardon, Madame Charles Meurice, Dupuy Jamain, 
Baron de Bonstetten, Madlle Eugenie Verdier, 
Louis van Houtte, La Duchesse de Morny, Madame 
Charles Wood ; Comtesse de Paris, very fine; Abel 
Carriere, Madame Hippolyte Jamain, Ferdinand de 
