The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-12 00:00:00

FINS Aar s ESHIBMON.

In this devartnient we bad great pleasure in in-
specting the stand of Mr. F.. Roe, of Qoeenwtreet,
Salisbury. remark.ble, in an agricultural point of view,
for the boil condensed forms we believe we hew. ever
Peen of fencer.' •ocount books. Tbere is one hook
merely for ennui! income and expenditure. admirably
arranged, the onet of which is only 34. 6.1.; soother,
the same, with weekly labour forme paper-added, for 6..
Mr. Roe exhibited • bandaome collection of tnib....ed
di.• for stamping paper (note. end letters) in gold cud
colours, anything more choice or elegant than which we
have not seen of the kind. Specimens of bookbinding,
all done upon his premise. in Salisbury, were extremely
creditable to local workmanship. . .

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His brother, Mr. F. Roe, upholsterer, Catherine.
strict. bad an exqui.ite displ.y of marqueierie end
inlaid tables of great value and beauty, more opetially
two oentse table. which we very much aslmired. A
table with • stand of richly relieved carved work for the
drawing-room. was an ohjec, of novelty, carving haring
been no generally lavished es the tops and not on the
stood. of times article.s. Amongst objects of greater
u,ility, if Ices ornamental, the Italian spring mattram
struck us am at once simple and ingenious; still more so
the new folding chair library, which cannot tilt over
with the sitter, as the tendency of the weight is to
expand the base, and it pores.. all the comfort of •
lame easy chair, whilst competent to be folded up into'
d.t form no bigger than a tailor's lay board. Freneh
wall paper decorations, •itts real gold figures, ana
.a instead of being repeated, differing from
another, yet not dear (Ifts per leer) struck as as a
vast advance in the elegant decoration of domestic
interiors. French tapestry hangings with bordsr wove,
on, 1:13 per pair, silk and worsted, introduced hy Mr. Roe,
offered another gorgeous sotemion to the luxuriance of
the meat limited cost. As did also • window valance
embroidered in vele. t, and the new velvet-pile fringe, •
vast improvement on the worsted fringe and Week, yet
leas expensive. But the gems of the collection were
certainly the deeming glasos and statuettes of carved
ivory from Berlin ; one very characteristic group of two
cord players, one winning, the other losing, WY
Chinese. _ .

The moat elegant show and perhaps the most extenaire
of all in this department was probably that of gime,
porcelain, awl Porno, exhibited by an Exeter ISrm.
Messrs. Wilton and Soo, of Balisbary, showed a Bre
grate. embellished with Minton's tiles and tnediceeal
iron furniture, quaint and curious, yet elegant and
%awful.

Messrs. Brown and co'. various eases of attiatic and
fancy articles were siceedinely superb.

THZ nown SHOW.

This magnificent pavilion was thrown open on Monday
at ten o'clock under the auspices of Mr. Jonathan
Gray, of Bath, who was hitneelf • principal exhibitor.
Indeed the chief exhibitoro were about nine in number,
yet a more gorgeous display of colour and beauty was
never perhaps exhibited within the like compass in the
floral 'matt,
The broad marts of Turner of Slongh'e pelargoniums
in full bloom satiated the eye with the richest and most
extensive arrangement of colour we oertainly ever
witnessed ' • whilat on the opposite hand watt arrayed •
bandsoinecollection of rates in pots from Sir F. Bath.
oral's, although it was the cut rose blooms of the hon.
hart. that far exceeded in beauty, sue. and perfection
any stage ausortroents teen at any other period of the
year—the roses in pots being perhaps rather plea. Per-
haps the most remarkable plants for growth. Woe, and
distinctive splendour were those of the RP•. S. Pigott's
collection. The most striking and beautiful, however.
were the profusely flowered trained prrantiele of
gorgeous bloom exhibited at the top of the pavilion
by Mr. Jonathan Gray, of Bath, who thowed be-
nd's a very considerable variety of finely grown
lyeopoditttne, also several varieties of seleginella
and the only calceolarias we Mserved. Dickaonia
&Marti., was exhibited in great magnificence by Lady
Ashburton. together with meny t quality rare and elegant
Plants and flowers superbly grown, the most remarkable
objects of her ladythip's collection being the genus
;Aerie. The ferns indeed were well renew...pied
and so also ly coped iums and orchids in all the collections,
and we remarked one very handsome hesth, ard one
only, EricaCsvendishii. Amongst Mr. Torner's collec-
tion towered compicuoosly the gorgeous Wiens aerate*
in glorious bloom, one flower in particular developing
the infioreocenee of this astonishing piece of God's
creation in greater perfection than we have yet seen it
in this country. Almost every collection boasted of
suagnifiront specimens of klocasia Metallic'. In the
Earl of Pembroke's oullection there were some enormous
examples of this singular foliage plant. The Earl
likewise showed • very fine example of Clerwlendroc,
although we think him lardehip's Caladiums fine as
frosted silver in their great peltate leaves were outdone
by those of the Its.. Mr. Pigott's collection.
The Earl was however unapproachable in the
rarer plants Gymnostachlam. Verichaftellii,
and the new awl popular Cypripedinms, par-
ticularly C. Barbatuto Superbam. Mr. Griffin also
brought forward • choice collection of ferns. Nor must
we omit to render dne praise to the pure profane blooms
of Earl Pembroke's Azalea.; or to the strange forms of
his stag-born ferns. Platecerium grande, and P. Alicorne.
Mr. Keynes, the celebrated Salisbury florist, has set up
• delicious bower of bloom. moat prominent amongst
which appear the Whoa Gigantism L. Oran ant, a
great mass of thew flowers and of vines in pots, which
he excel. in growing.
On the ground we observed the Lord Bishop of
Etaliabury, the Earls of Portsmouth and Fldon,
Lord Foli-estone, O. W. Ferrer, Esq. Riches d
filagreed, Eq.. Hon. H. A. F. Luttrell, Herbert
E•q•'
r Mears. John Gray and Jonathan
GMT, K. S. lit-ewe, Esq., Rev. Principal Constable
of Cirencester, T. D. Atilend, Esq., M.P., Messrs. Bush,
Pain, Pitman, Hale, Sillifant, Dave, Homey, G. S.
Poole, and the ocial Superintendent and Secretaries—
Megan. Eicsokmao, H. Mt. John Mule, and J.
Goodwin.