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of the past:is: the best: prophecy of ‘the “future,” Ido not think, from 
their present appearance, that I‘shall be sorry that I have named them 
as growing well, wintering well, and about to bloom well. © 
It is fair to say that many of the above Roses’ succeed well’ on the 
Briar here, and that, as regards Gloire de Dijon, of which I have seven 
ona Briar, good doers’ om all heights of stock, that’ to non-amateurs I 
would recommend: it ona Briar in’ preference'to’ Manetti. It ‘is as 
yet the best supply forthe Cloth of Gold, asa large Rose of yellow 
tendency. : 1104 dtinas 1:2 
In conclusion, buy Roses suited'to either stock. °It will take' time’ to 
find out where isthe: best place for them in the °rosary. “A Rose tree 
on either stock is ‘‘ arbor curiosus,”’ or,'as the -publicans would translate 
it, ““arum shrub.” ‘The above advice is not intended to set the whole 
world against Roses on the Briar, but to help Manetti Rose growers to 
a more successful ‘treatment of that’ stock than, I fear, it has received 
at the hands of a great’ many purchasers who have treated it as though 
it were'a Briar Rose, from which, in its habits, likes, and dislikes, it so 
signally differs. I dare say that I shall live to moderate some of my 
opinions, and, when I do so, I hope that I shall have the boldness and 
honesty to admit the change. 
Rushton, June 4. ~W. F. RADCLYFFE. 
P.S. Chabrillan has bloomed a most beautiful Rose, fit for exhibition. 
EXHIBITION SCHEDULES. 
Every day’s experience illustrates the necessity of schedules of prizes 
and rules for the regulation of exhibitions being so framed that the 
most ordinary capacity may understand them ; nor is there the slightest 
reason why rules or regulations should be in the slightest degree 
infringed upon. The laws laid down are equally binding on all, and 
as their publication and distribution always takes place long before the 
show day, very little sympathy need be felt for those who suffer through 
their own inattention or negligence. By the same line of argument, 
no infraction of a society’s set rules should in aught be tolerated or 
overlooked ; whenever that takes place, some one must suffer, and not 
unfrequently the society itself. Rae 
In the schedule of the Crystal Palace show, held on the 26th of May. 
last, might have been seen—“*,* The following rules will be rigidly. 
enforced ;” but, it seems to me, that the judges of fruit on that occasion 
read and interpreted the matter very differently from the plant and. 
flower judges. I give an example: K invites Strawberries, single dish. 
in FIFTIES, and a dish of Strawberries is also prominently notified in. 
large type to consist of 50 fruits. So, in the several classes for plants, 
the numbers were specially set forth. Let me ask the plant judges if 
they would have given the first prize for £25 to Mr. Collyer’s collection. 
if there had been staged 22 or 24 plants instead of the 20 invited 2 
Would Messrs. Paul have stood in the first rank in Roses had 11 or 
12 plants been set up instead of 10, as demanded? The addition of 
