The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . nt of Jubilee festivities, an eaillor date thanoriginally fixod was found necessary. This fact, and thesevere frosts of May, together with stormy weather through-out the country, was the cause of a somowhat poor show forthe National Rose Society. Still, there were some grandflowors, those from Colchester and Oxford being especiallyclean and bright. Wo do not think the best nse was made of Esq., and the Rev. Foster-Melliars grand Teas, a groat blank Ise > to lie felt. There were several incidents of
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . nt of Jubilee festivities, an eaillor date thanoriginally fixod was found necessary. This fact, and thesevere frosts of May, together with stormy weather through-out the country, was the cause of a somowhat poor show forthe National Rose Society. Still, there were some grandflowors, those from Colchester and Oxford being especiallyclean and bright. Wo do not think the best nse was made of Esq., and the Rev. Foster-Melliars grand Teas, a groat blank Ise > to lie felt. There were several incidents of tho day well worth noting,Mr. F. Cant was disqualified In tho premier class for nursery,men for infringnient of rule 7, he staging a beautiful backrow flower of a sport from Rodocanachi, unnamod,and without giving namo of raiser. It Is a pity we cannotliavo the very earliest opportunity of eeelng such a good newRoso without its being definitely named and shown undersuch, but as this rule was mado at the last meeting, it wasthought wiser to enforce it upon tho first FlG 104.—BALMORAL CASTLE, THE QUEENS HIGHLAND RESIDENCE. beautiful ; it will be found described at length, as exhibitedby F. Sander & Co., p. 390, col. 2, to which wc have nothingto add. H. Green-wood, Esq , of Highfield (gr., Mr. Spurr), exhi-bited a welhgrown plant of Cypripedium kurigatum (Awardof Merit), pretty flowthis specie: Hi i i i \\.-[ . Bhowed a form of Cypripediumin the way ol Goworianura ; and a well-llowered plant ofCattleyaMossJ ?. but the flowers were ton small for tho planttu rece voa I ultural Messrs. John Cowan & Co. had a miscellaneous assortmentof showy-flow ered Orchids, for which he was awarded a \ oteof Thanks. what flowers were available. For example: it wouldobviously have been belter to allow more spaco to thobeautiful garden Roses, instead of crowding these, andleaving so much blank space between other classes. Whiloaware of the difficulties caused by cx
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