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.Elisha J: llick1' of HUl'st, ''';e.r 'I'wy~ord, nerk.~ 'l'h,!,se wbo
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their grqllt ; lImlnor show ]'ec.entl,y
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III addition to t he Wigan Cup, Mr. Hicks, has won, this
Gold Medal of the N"'io ll al Rose Society, carrying
~ith it the N Ul'S~I?m,an'B Championship for Decorative Roses ."
{.or t he year; all(1 'at the snme g,e(lt Londou Show .the~, "
Edward Mawtey
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nurserymen; tI,e l'e". o Cuy at Sout.hampton for decorative
roses; and the lint pI·i.e, with 9,01u Medah11ld ~l'ophy ,"·at
Portlanu, U .S.A., for the b est new climbing ro Je, in ".competi'
tion· open to the world. :Mr. Hicks won thiJ prize with Lis
'Climbing Lady Hillingdon.
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oyal HorticultUl'al· Society 's ShOw in London, 36. firsts, and
any obher prizes for l'oses ut l,llany of the leading e;Ul ibitions .
uriug th~ . curr~u~1 yten . 'r hi s -is, ~ndeed; a fine record, and

of spnce ai d w'qs eta,ged
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Laurence' s Church. ReadlnGJ of LIeutenant Cecil Frederlo
Robin., 6th S. Staffs Regt., only IOrt -of Mr. and Mrs.
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dauRhter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred couzens, of 47, Friar st.,
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