July 20, 1895. 
THE GARDENING WORLD/ 
739 
STRAWBERRIES, 
JAMES YEITCH & SONS 
teg to intimate that they are now booking orders for all the leading kinds of Strawberries, either in pots 
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SPECIAL LIST, just published, can be had on application. 
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THE NEW EARLY STRAWBERRY FOR 1895. 
STEVENS’ WONDER. 
Now ready for distribution. Everyone should secure this grand early variety. 
IN POTS £5 per 100 ; 15 /- per dozen. STRONG RUNNERS £3 per 103 ; 9 /- per dozen. 
All other leading varieties now ready for delivery, see special list free on application. 
WM. COTBOSH AND SON, Highgate Nurseries, London, N. 
LAINGS’ BEGON IAS 
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FERNS 
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A MAGNIFICENT STOCK IN IMMENSE VARIETY. 
Catalogue (No. 40) Free on Application. 
W. & J. BIRKENHEAD, F.R.H.S., 
Fern Nurseries, Sale, near Manchester. 
For Index to Contents see page 749. 
" Gardening is the purest of human pleasures, and the greatest 
refreshment to the spirit of man."— Bacon. 
Edited by J. FRASER, F.L.S. 
SATURDAY, JULY 10th, 1895- 
NEXT WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Monday, July 22nd.—National Chrysanthemum Society’s 
Outingto Burford Lodge, Doiking. 
Tuesday, July 23rd.—Royal Horticultural Society. Meeting 
of Committees at 12 o’clock. Tibshelf Flower Show. 
Sale of Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
Wednesday, Julyaqth.—Beckenham Summer Show. National 
Carnation and Picotee Society’s Show at the Crystal 
Palace. Chesterfield Rose Show. Opening day of New- 
cast!e-on-Tyne Summer Show. 
Thursday, July 25th.—Trentham Rose Show. Continuation 
of Newcastle Show. 
Friday, July 26th.—Wellingborough Flower Show. Sale of 
Orchids at Messrs. Protheroe & Morris’ Rooms. 
T>oses and Rose shows in 1895. —Once 
L more the Rose season, all too brief in any 
year, but particularly so on this occasion, 
has come and gone. The Rose growers have 
had their annual display on the show 
boards ; hopes have been realised or dis¬ 
appointed in different cases ; and no doubt 
several are perfectly satisfied that they were 
fairly and honestly beaten, taking notes and 
making resolves that they will make 
another determined effort in next year’s 
tournament. The season lias been against 
them, but throughout thelengthandbreadth 
of the land the conditions have been the 
same, so that all growers have been on a 
relatively similar footing, except for the 
differences which latitude makes. One fact 
is pretty plain, namely, that in wet and dry 
seasons alike, the Tea and Noisette section 
of Roses is in its prime a week in advance 
of the hybrid perpetuals. This has been 
well demonstrated at the provincial show 
held by the National Rose Society at 
Gloucester, where those Roses enlisted the 
admiration of all who see them. Tea and 
Noisette Roses succeed in much warmer 
climates than ours usually is, and even in 
countries where hybrid perpetuals fre¬ 
quently fail, so that we might expect them 
to make a good display in Britain during 
warm seasons. We may take it for granted, 
however, that their duration will be more 
restricted; and in the cut state the petals 
certainly begin to tumble about very early 
if the day is dry and breezy and the sun¬ 
shine bright. 
Another peculiarity of a droughty season, 
is that certain Roses come to the front as 
premier and medal blooms, which attract 
but little notice in moister seasons. In the 
nurserymen’s classes at Gloucester, Com- 
tesse de Ludre, comparatively a little 
known variety, was accorded the Silver 
Medal as the best hybrid perpetual. Here 
also Ethel Brownlow took the premier 
position amongst Tea Roses. Comtessede 
Nadaillac, so frequently in the front rank, 
has everywhere been in relatively poor 
form, and exhibited in small quantity only. 
The severity of last winter as well as the 
dry weather may be responsible for this 
falling away. At Windsor the Silver Medal 
for the best hybrid perpetual in the nursery¬ 
men’s classes, was awarded to Marchioness 
of Dufferin, while Marie Baumann won the 
coveted honour in the amateurs’ division. 
Never, perhaps, has Her Majesty been seen 
in much finer form than it has this year, 
for it figuied well at Gloucester, Windsor, 
and the Crystal Palace, taking the Silver 
Medal at the latter place as the best hybrid 
perpetual, both in the nurserymen’s and 
amateurs’ classes. In the former case 
Comtesse de Nadaillac was the best Tea, 
though very moderate at that; and in the 
amateurs’ competition, Marechal Niel was 
accorded the coveted medal. The premier 
blooms at the various shows came from 
growers fairly well distributed, but yet 
mostly from the eastern counties, and East 
Anglia secured the lion’s share of the lead¬ 
ing awards at all the more important shows, 
though, singularly enough, the Yorkshire 
firm of growers, scored heavily in the lead¬ 
ing classes for hybrid perpetuals at 
Gloucester. With this exception the 
southern growers had it mostly their own 
way, in striking contrast to the results of 
the London Pansy and Violet Society’s 
show at the Crystal Palace. 
The numerous and excellent exhibits of 
Her Majesty has given that variety great 
prominence this season ; but other hybrid 
perpetuals that deserved attention, besides 
those already mentioned, were Horace 
Vernet, Gustave Piganeau, Caroline 
Testout, Alfred Colomb, A. K. Williams, 
Suzanne Marie Rodocanachi, Merveille de 
Lyon, Dupuy Jamain, E. Levet, Earl 
Dufferin, Fisher Holmes, Mrs. J. Laing, 
Ulrich Brunner and Mrs R. G. Sharman 
Crawford. The latter is a pink Rose 
nearly of the same colour as Mrs. J. Laing, 
but has more spreading petals, the central 
ones of which are tinted with a lively rosy- 
salmon hue, and attracted a considerable 
amount of attention from the general 
public. In like manner other Tea Roses 
that came prominendy to the front, were 
Madame Cusin, Marie Van Houtte, 
Madame Lambard, The Bride, Innocente 
Pirola, Catherine Mermet, Souvenir d’Elise 
Vardon, Souvenir d’un Ami, La Boule 
d’Or, Ernest Metz, and Caroline Kuster. 
Few of the above were notable for their 
great size ; nor indeed has the season been 
productive of large Roses. Though quality 
was discernible in many cases, the blooms 
were moderate in size, particularly those 
coming from northern counties, and many 
blooms were lacking in staying texture. 
There was a little complaint about the lack 
of colour, but until the great heat of the 7th 
and 8th inst., nothing serious could be laid 
to them on this score. Some of those 
shown at the Drill Hall on the 9th, looked 
rather burnt. The Teas on the contrary, in 
several cases were wonderfully finely 
tinted. 
