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REMARKS. 



ROYAL BERKS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY; 



Under the Illustrious Patronage of the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and 

 the Duchess of Kent. At the annual general Meeting of this Society, held 

 at the Town Hall, Wallingford, on Tuesday last: Edward Wells, Esq., 

 Mayor, in the chair. The routine business of the day having been finished, 

 the following distribution of prizes, &c." for the last year took place. 



* £. s. d- 



Prizes awarded to Members ...... 73 8 6 



COTTAGERS. 

 Prizes awarded for productions ...... 14 6 6 



PREMIUMS FOR SUPERIOR GARDENS, Viz:— 



* The Duchess of Kent's Premium, to John Ford of St. Mary's, 



Wallington. ........ 



* W. S. Blackstone, Esq's Premium, to Robert Francis of 



St. Peter, Wallingford 



* Extra Premium, by the Society, to Robert Francis of St. 



Leonard, Wallingford . 



* Miss Blackstone's Premium, to William ' Bartlett of St. 



Leonard, Wallingford ....... 



* John Marshall, Esq's. Premium, to John Hester of St. 



Peter's, Wallingford 



E. H. Payne, Esq's. Piemium, to George Durbridge of Dor- 

 chester 



Minor Premiums by the Society amounting to 



Premiums by Do.,j|br superior management of Bees 



Total £120 13 



Those marked thus ( * ) are renting allotments of W, S. Blackstone, 

 Esq., M.P. 



On Clianthus poniceus. — " In the South of England this splendid Plant 

 bears the winters with impunity, and in Devonshire and the Isle of Wight 

 fully authorises the generic name given to it by the learned Solander, (Flower 

 of Glory.) It was discovered by Sir Joseph Banks, in New Zealand, in the 

 northern interior, in 1769, and again by the Missionaries in 1831. Mr. Cur- 

 tis, who has raised numerous plants of it in his extensive nursery grounds at 

 Cayen Wood, has been furnished with the following particulars respecting its 

 introduction, &c, to this country, by Mr. Vaux, of Ryde, Isle of Wight, 

 where the plant grows luxuriantly, and blossoms freely in the open air 

 without the slighest protection. Mr. Richard Davis, Missionary Catechist, 

 at New Zealand, sent the seed of Clianthus punireus to the Rev. John 

 Noble. Colman, Terrace, Ryde, who sowed it as soon as it was received, in 

 the autumn of 1831. In the following spring Mr. Colman had several fine 

 plants. In the autumn of 1832 some of the plants had indications of blos- 

 soms forming; and in the spring, or rather summer, of 1838, they flowered 

 most beautifully, and produced seed vessels, one of which was forwarded 

 to the London Horticultural Society, and engraved in the transactions of 

 that valuable body. The propagation is extremely simple, cuttings strike 

 readily under a hand glass in aiiy soil, indeed when any bud of the growing 

 plant touches the ground it will take root like a Miuiulus, or like Verbena 

 V'lindres, the cuttings appear to succeed rqually well, whether stripped of) 



