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THE GARDENER. 



[July 



PaxtoD, Mr Storer ; 4. Joseph Godfrey, 

 ]\Ir Barber ; 5. Dr Hardy, Mr Barber ; 

 6. Bertvistle's Sulphur, Mr Barber ; 7. 



Polyphemus, Mr Atkins ; 8. J. D. Hex- 

 tall, Mr Storer; 9. Thomas Abbott, 

 Mr S. Smedly. 



BREEDERS. 



lioses. —1. Juliet, Mr Shardlow ; 2. 

 Industry, Mr Storer ; 3, Industry, Mr 

 Storer ; 4. Industry, C. Shardlow ; 

 5. Emily Birch, Mr Battersby ; 6. 

 Queen ]\Iab, Mr Battersby. 



Byhhemcns. — 1. Adonis, ISIr Storer; 

 2. Excelsior, Mr C. Shardlow ; 3. 

 Excelsior, Mr Burdiekin; 4. Beatrice, 



!Mr Shardlow ; 5. Seedling, Mr Batters- 

 by ; 6. Seedling, W. Coulby. 



Bizarrcs. — 1. Willison's King, ^Ir 

 Hurt ; 2. Storer's Seedling, Mr Burdie- 

 kin ; 3. Ilaynes's Lord Belper, Mr 

 Storer ; 4. Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr Shard- 

 low; 5. Seedling, Mr Storer; 6. Un- 

 known, Mr Winfield. 



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THE ROYAL CALEB OlSTIAlSr HORTICULTURAL 



SOCIETY. 



The summer exhibition of this Society took place in the Music Hall, George 

 Street, Edinburgh, on the 9th of last month. As a display of plants, it was a fair 

 average one as compared with other years. The same may be said of fruit, with 

 the addition that we thought the Grapes finer than usual. Mr Temple, gardener, 

 Balbirnie, had some very well finished Black Hamburgs which we thovight should 

 have been placed first in their class ; but we were told by one of the judges that 

 they applied the very legitimate test of tasting them, and that decided the day in 

 favour of Mr Laing, gardener, Pitcairlie, whose bunches were neither so compact 

 nor well coloui'ed, though larger. In the white class Mr Maconnochie, gardener, 

 Cameron House, Dumbartonshire, showed splendid bunches of Buckland's Sweet- 

 water, which were, however, placed second to Mr Thomson's Golden Champion. 

 In the collection of six sorts of fruit Mr Thomson showed Pines, a Melon^ Peaches, 

 Nectarines, Black Hamburg and Golden Champion Grapes. Mr Anderson, gar- 

 dener to James Lindsay, Esq., Dryden Bank, showed some very large and fine 

 Peaches, which were placed second to others higher coloured but not quite so 

 large. Mr M'Kay, gardener to Charles Tennant, Esq. of The Glen, showed a very 

 handsome smooth Cayenne for so early a season of the year. Good Cherries came 

 from Mr M'j\Iillan, gardener to Lord Blantyre, Erskine House, near Glasgow; 

 some very fine Strawberries from Mr Gordon, gardener, Niddrie House ; Apples 

 from Mr Lees, Tyningham ; and Lady Downes, of last year's growth, from Mr 

 Temple. 



Noticeable amongst plants were some very fine " foliaged plants " from The 

 Glen ; fine Heaths fi'om the same place, and from Dalkeith Park ; Ferns from P. 

 Neil Eraser, Esq., Canonmills Lodge, many of them being remarkably curious 

 sports of Scolopendrium vulgare ; Pelargoniums from Mr Jones, gardener to 

 Captain Bolton. 



The Edinburgh nurserymen had all tables of neat well-grown saleable plants. 

 P. Lawson & Son had a large and fine collection of cut Pihododendron blooms, 

 besides other plants. Dickson & Co. a very tasteful stand of Bronze and Tricolor 

 Geraniums, besides which they filled a long table with other showy plants. Mr 

 Methven filled a large table with a very varied collection of fine plants, as did Mr 

 Mitchell of Hanover Street, who also exhibited some very handsome specimens of 

 the Tree Fern Dicksonia Antarctica. Downie, Laird, & Laing had a very choice 



