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was then, but it did not equal this one of Mr. Keynes; there was a 
size, freshness, and refinement about them that was very telling. They 
were also admirably arranged as to colour, thus: Madame Rivers, 
Pauline Lanzezeur, Souvenir de Leveson Gower and Juno, Madame 
Knorr, General Jacqueminot, Comtesse de Chabriilon, L’Enfant de 
Mont Carmel, Prince Leon, Gloire de Vitry, Stephanie Beauharnais, 
Géant des Batailles, Wm. Griffith, Souvenir de la Malmaison, L’ Kveque 
de Nimes, and La Ville de St. Denis. And what could exceed the 
blooms of Eveque de Nimes, La Ville de St. Denis, Wm. Griffith, 
Prince Leon, Madame Knorr, Pauline Lanzezeur, Charles Lawson, 
Madame Vidot, General Jacqueminot, and Lord Raglan? they all 
were grand in the extreme. ‘The same may be said, with a very slight 
degree of difference, of Mr. Cant’s 50; and perhaps, considering the 
large number, one would be inclined to give the greater credit to him.* 
‘The collections of 100 blooms were fine; it was clear, however, that 
the season had not been favourable to the west country growers; the 
more favoured districts of Hertford and Sussex escaped a good deal of 
the severity which Herefordshire experienced, and hence Mr, Cranston 
was behindhand; Mr. Mitchell, of Piltdown nurseries, near Brighton, 
taking first, and Mr. Paul, of Cheshunt, second. There are so many 
established Roses which one looks to see in every exhibition, and in 
every stand, that it will be needless perhaps to say that in most of them 
were to be found General Jacqueminot, Madame Vidot, Prince Leon, 
Mathurin Regnier, Gloire de Dijon, Géant des Batailles, Souvenir de 
la Malmaison, Lord Raglan, &. &e. I shall therefore go at once to 
the newer Roses; and first and foremost, those exhibited last year— 
Kuarene Apprrt holds still the place I assigned to him last year—it 
is, in truth, a noble Rose, and unless I am very much mistaken will 
improve in shape as it is more grown; it is such a magnificent grower 
and so thick in the petal that it holds its colour for many days after it 
is cut, thus, as I said last year, in every point beating the Géant; the 
blooms exhibited by Mr. Standish were not a fair criterion of the flower 
—his is nota Rose soil, and hence it was not in character ; but there was 
one in Mr. Hole’s box very fine. CoUNTESS CECILE DE CHABRILLANT 
T still think so much like William Griffith that no one but a very 
practised Rose grower would be able to disqualify a stand for having 
two of either in it; in the bud it is somewhat darker, but when 
expanded, they are as like as two Peas. ORIFLAMME DE St. Louis 
(exhib&ed in Mr. Hole’s box), is fine in colour, very much like in shape 
Jacqueminot, and mof more double, which it was said to be. ANNA 
DE DiEsBACH is large and flimsy, though bright, but will not, I think, 
be generally grown, being too coarse and loose for the general Rose taste ; 
the same may be said of ANNA ALEXIEFF, it may be very fragrant, 
but so is an old Cabbage Rose ; I do not think that French raisers have 
aright to bring forward a flower only for perfume. Duke or CAmM- 
BRIDGE, a fine flower, very much in the Prince Leon style, but to all 
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* Since this was written, I have seen Mr. Cant’s Rosary, and greatly wonder 
that he should, from comparatively speaking, so small a collection, have exhibited 
such a stand of 150 blooms. 
