July 9,1898. 
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SATURDAY , JULY 9 th, 1898. 
NEXT WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS. 
Tuesday, July 12th.—Royal Horticultural Society ; meeting of 
commlttes at 12 noon. 
Woking Show (2 days). 
Wolverhampton Floral Fete (3 days). 
Wednesday, July 13th.—Ipswich Ro-e Show. 
Durham and Newcastle Horticultural Society’s Show (3 
days’. 
Thursday, July 14th.—National Rose Society’s Show at 
Halifax. 
TikDSEs at the Crystal Palace.— The great 
v* annual exhibition of Roses at the 
Crystal Palace is once more a thing of the 
past; and visitors seemed more than usually 
pleased with the results, probably because 
they greatly exceeded expectations, after 
such a late and unfavourable season. Some 
of the visitors complained that their Roses 
were so badly cut up with the cold winds 
of May, that they thought the plants were 
dead. Since then, however, they have 
made favourable progress, but are late. 
Many growers consider that the season is 
two or three weeks later than usual, and 
seeing that the Palace show was held on 
the first Saturday of July as usual, it is not 
surprising that there were some misgivings 
about the success of the show. Most 
growers would have liked another week to 
open their flowers. The southern growers 
have practically had it all their own way on 
this occasion; and Colchester has fully 
maintained its previous reputation in respect 
of the mixed collections of Roses and the 
hybrid perpetuals. Oxford has taken the 
lion’s share of the honours for Tea Roses, 
than which we have seldom, if ever, seen 
anything uniformly better in this class. 
There was some falling away in the number 
of entries in our opinion, judging from the 
general display ; but the big prizes were 
just about as well contested as ever. All 
the classes were, however, well represented, 
there being no falling away in that respect. 
The dry atmosphere of the Palace and the 
oppressive heat for a short period in the 
forenoon caused the Roses to wilt a little, 
compared with their freshness at the close 
of the day last year; but there was no 
collapse such as we have seen in droughty 
seasons like 1887, 1893 and 1895. The 
blooms elicited well-dessrved admiration 
even to the last. 
Of Roses that distinguished themselves 
on this occasion, we consider that Comtesse 
de Nadaillac, White Lady and Mrs. W. J. 
Grant stand at the top of the list. The 
first named furnished the best Teas both in 
the nurserymen’s and the amateurs’ sec¬ 
tions. It also constituted the first prize 
stand of 12 blooms of any Tea or Noisette, 
and came from Oxford in two out of the 
three cases here mentioned. Mrs. W. J. 
Grant was the premier hybrid Tea in the 
nurserymen’s classes, and secured the lead¬ 
ing award as the best stand of any light 
pink or rose-coloured variety. White Lady 
was a sport from Lady Mary Fitzwilliam 
in 1889, and was not only the best hybrid 
Tea in the amateurs’ section, but the best 
of that class in the show. Hybrid Tea 
Roses are now regarded by the National 
Rose Society as a distinct section, and it 
seems they are destined to increase in num¬ 
bers, importance and in the estimation of 
growers largely on account of their perpetual 
flowering character and beautiful forms 
Mrs. John Laing and Gustave Piganeau 
took the lead in the two principal sections 
as the premier hybrid perpetuals in the 
show and were characterised by fine form 
and colour, rather than by absolute size. 
Ulrich Brunner well sustained its reputa¬ 
tion as an exhibition Rose, but did not gain 
the honour of being a premier bloom in the 
show. Large light Roses like Her Majesty 
and Captain Christy were conspicuous by 
their absence, so that we may conclude a 
stormy, late season is not in their favour. 
The Colchester Roses in the “ Trophy 
Class ” gave entire satisfaction, several of 
the exhibits forming a very close competi¬ 
tion, though there was little doubt as to the 
order of the winning stands. Here and 
there was a little evidence of stress of 
weather or the effects of insect depreda¬ 
tions, probably a combination of both ; for 
both of these adverse conditions seem to 
have been prevalent throughout the length 
and breadth of the land this year. There 
can be no doubt that many have got an 
impression of the difficulties attending the 
cultivation of Roses, though we do not 
apprehend that such checks will be any¬ 
thing more than accidental or temporary. 
The Rose is the universally popular sum¬ 
mer flower, and most people with a garden 
give more or less particular attention to its 
cultivation. There was some evidence of 
this in the number of amateurs bent on note 
taking, and who were evidently familiar 
with a good many of the varieties, but had 
ocular demonstration that they were by no 
means masters of the art of cultivating them 
to that perfection of which they are capable. 
The garden Roses were undoubtedly a 
feature of the show and no doubt converted 
many to an opinion of their surpassing 
beauty either in the garden or in the cut state. 
The annual shows at the Crystal Palace 
have been the means of increasing the 
popularity of this class, by demonstrating 
their superiority for effectiveness and 
general display. They far surpass the 
hybrid perpetuals for decorative effect at 
some distance away. Profusion of bloom, 
and the greater liberty of growth which the 
plants are allowed to enjoy is doubtless re¬ 
sponsible for the widely prevalent and 
growing predilection for this race or mixture 
of races of the Rose. Hitherto the bulk of 
them have been blamed for their short 
season of flowering ; but this can be ex¬ 
tended by a more liberal use of the China 
or Monthly Roses, the Fairy Roses and 
others which owe their orgin to Rosa indica. 
Nor can we forget that Tea Roses really 
originated from the same source. Many of 
the so called Polyantha Roses owe as much 
to Rosa indica as R. multiflora. The true 
Polyantha or cluster Roses ought really to 
belong to the latter ; but no doubt h bridisa- 
tion and cross-fertilisation have played their 
part in mingling the blood of the two, 
originally distinct races. We want now to 
