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numbers the awards shall Tie made. In cases of difference of opinion the 

 majority decides. When their joint award is finally declared, the names of 

 persons to whom the letters and numbers refer, are, for the first time, announ- 

 ced to the judges, and as speedily after as practicable, to the exhibitors 

 themselves. 



SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



These will be divided into two classes ; for the first class, nurserymen will 

 compete with nurserymen ; and private individuals, with private individuals; 

 and separate prizes will be awarded accordingly ; for the second class no 

 distinction will be made between the nurserymen and private individuals. 



Class I.— Azaleas, hardy, in collection, cut flowers ; ditto, greenhouse, in 

 varieties, number not to exceed twelve plants ; Carnations, not exceeding 30 

 blooms ; Pinks, ditto ; Piccotees, ditto ; Cacti, melon-shaped, whether in 

 flower or not. No exhibitor is to show the same plant at more than one meet- 

 ing during the season, otherwise the award to be void. Heartsease, in stands 

 of 30 varieties ; Exotic Orchideae in collections of six species ; ditto for the 

 best single specimens; Pelargoniums, in collections of twelve varieties; 

 Rhododendrons, cut flowers, not less than twenty varieties ; ditto in pots 

 not fewer than twelve plants, in twelve varieties; Roses, Chinese and Noi-_ 

 sette, in collections of twenty varieties ; Roses, Garden, in collections o 

 fifty varieties ; ditto, in Miscellaneous collections; Stove, or Greenhouse 

 Plants, in collections of not more than sixty, nor less than twenty plants; 

 Stove or Greenhouse plants, in collections of six single ornamental specimens 

 of different genera. 



Class II. — Alstromerias, Anemones, Amaryllidaceae in collections of six 

 specimens; Balsams, in sets of six ; Herbaceous Calceolarias, in collections 

 of six pots ; Shrubby Calceolarias, in collections of six pots ; Cucumbers, in 

 braces, at the May meeting only ; no medal will be placed at the disposal of 

 the Judges for June or July ; Cacti, the tall kinds in flower ; Ericea?, Cape 

 kinds, in collections ; Figs, in dishes ; Grapes ; Melons, single specimens ; 

 Pine Apples ; Peaches, in dishes of six specimens ; Nectarines, ditto ; Suc- 

 culent plants, not before enumerated, in collections of six specimens; single 

 specimens of new or ornamental plants.— The medals for these will be given 

 entirely at the discretion of the Judges ; Dahlias; Miscellaneous subjects, 

 not comprehended under any of the foregoing heads. — Gardener's Gazette. 



On the Lady Bird, &c. — A lady whose garden was enclosed by a hedge 

 of rose trees, and which rose trees were covered by swarms of minute in- 

 sects, saw a hen lead her flock of chickens into the garden ; her immediate 

 intention was to have them driven out, but she soon perceived their eyes 

 fixed upon the rose-tree, and watched them till they had satisfied their ap- 

 petites and perfectly cleared some of the trees. 



Il is a fact well known that throughout the order of creation every tribe 

 of animated beings is preyed upon by another, and thus, it is supposed, each 

 tribe is kept within the true bounds of space originally prescribed for its 

 existence. The cause of this wonderful dispensation is probably hidden 

 from the power of the human faculty to find out — but the fact remains in- 

 dubitable ; and we see our trees and shrubs apparently preserved from the 

 destructive voyages of these innumerable small flies, known under the 

 denomination of Aphides, by the great variety of species of different orders 

 and to which, in their larva or grub stfle, they serve as food. Amongst 

 these devourers of the Aphis fly, the beautiful little beetle known com- 

 monly under the name of Lady-bird, is pre-eminently serviceable, and in 

 that amusing work " Kirkby's Introduction to Entomology," it is related that 

 in the year 1807, the shores at Brighton and of all the watering places upon 

 the south coast, were literally covered with them, after having, in the state 

 of grubs devoured thousands and ten thousands of the Aphis which had in- 

 fested the neighbouring hop-grounds. And the hop-growers are said now 

 to be so sensible of their services, as to place boys to prevent the birds de- 

 stroying them. Florist's) M\sm\l. 



