3-028-740 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Show of Spring flowers in the Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, [London], 1870. The show '...was attended by a large number of fashionable visitors, the Duchess of Cambridge amongst them...Much attention was drawn to the roses exhibited by Messrs. Paul and Son, of Cheshunt, and Mr. William Paul, of Waltham-cross. The latter produced some extraordinary specimens of a new rose named after Princess Christian...Messrs. Rollison, of Tooting, won a prize for their collection of plants, including several noteworthy orchids, among which the small sophronita coccinea was conspicuous by its bright colour...The amateurs came out in much force. Mr. James, gardener to Mr. F. W. Watson, of Isle- worth, made a great display of cyclamens and cinerarias. The class of greenhouse plants was excellently represented by the groups for which Mr. Wright, gardener to Mr. C. H. C. Roberts, and Mr. Wheeler, gardener to Sir F. Goldsmid, gained first and second prizes. The hyacinths shown by the same growers were, though remarkably fine, surpassed by the twelve for which Mr. Searle, gardener to Mr. B. Steele, took deservedly the first prize. Mr. Ware, of Tottenham, was the leading exhibitor of forced hardy herbaceous plants; and took a first prize for lilies'. From "Illustrated London News, 1870.