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Handasyde, Fisherrow, whose flowers were — Hero of Salisbury, Virgin Queen, 

 Dane Croft Rival, Squib's Amulet, Rival Sussex, Al'go, Metella. Rhoda, Gr;ice 

 Darling, Optima, Girling' s Evadne, Lady Kinnaird, Model of Perfection, Duchess 

 of Devonshire, Ruby, Emulator, Rienzi, Rosalie, Bree's Rosa, and Marquis of 

 Lothian. Another prize was voted to Messrs. Eagle and Henderson, Edinburgh, 

 who produced Squib's Purple Perfection, Dodd's Mary, Marquis of Lothian, 

 Queen of Sarum, Duchess of Richmond, Francis, Hope, Lady Dunglass, Argo, 

 Springfield Major, Climax, Grace Darling, Rienzi, Banks of the Tyne, Seedling 

 of 1839 (not named), Unique, Beauty of the Plain, Seedling (not named), 

 Wallace, and Beauty of Sevenoaks. 



For the Practical Gardeners' prize there were nine competitors, and the com- 

 mittee therefore made four awards. The medal was assigned to Mr. Wm. Thorn, 

 gardener to David Anderson, Esq., of St. Germains, whose kinds were Rival 

 Sussex, Amato, Unique, Hero of Sevenoaks, Virgin Queen, Marquis of Lothian, 

 Suffolk Hero. Royal Standard, Homer, Bree's Rosa, Topaz, Sir Henry Fletcher, 

 Essex Rival, Horwood's Defiance, Egyptian King, Duchess of Devonshire, Model 

 of Perfection, Eva, Lady Powlet, and Springfield Rival. The second prize was 

 voted to Mr. Peter Thomson, gardener to J. J. Hope Vere, Esq., of Craigie- 

 hall, for Lady Middleton, Dodd's Mary, Bowlingreen Rival, Egyptian King, 

 Grace Darling, Conqueror, Hope, Mountjoy's Rosa, Bree's Rosa, Unique, Mar- 

 quis of Lothian, Lord Howe, Rienzi, Birmingham, Premier, Monarch, Virgin 

 Queen, Beauty of the Plain, Lady Dunglass, Duchess of Devonshire, and Rival 

 Sussex. A third premium was awarded to Mr. George James, gardener to James 

 Balfour, Esq., of Pilrig ; and a fourth to Mr. James Lindsav, gardener to Patrick 

 Chalmers, Esq., of Auldbar, Brechin. 



The show of Carnations was also very rich. The medal was found due to 

 Mr. John Young, gardener to Sir James Gibson Craig, Bart., of Riccarton. 

 whose flowers were— Fair Helen, Ive's Leopold, Falstaff, Lady of the Lake, 

 "William the Fourth, Cannon's Flake, Miss Mitford, Byron, Rob Roy, Countess 

 of Airlie, Ramsay's Favourite, and Wild's Perfection. A second prize was 

 awarded to Mr. John Young, gardener to Thomas Oliver, Esq., Newington 

 Lodge; and a third to Mr. Peter Brown, gardener to John Sandeison, Esq., 

 Dundee ; both collections being admirable. 



To Messrs. Sang, of the Kirkaldy Nurseries, a premium was voted, for a fine 

 flowering specimen of the curious and rare epiphytal climber, ^schynauthus 

 grandiflorus: the first time it has been seen in flower in Scotland. 



A collection of Seedling Fuchsias, hybrid between F. fulgens and F. grandi- 

 flora, seed sown only five months ago, was sent by Mr. Thomson, Craigiehall ; 

 and another collection, raised in East Princes-street Gardens, was communicated 

 by Mr. Scott, Nurseryman. 



A rich collection of Seedling Carnations, raised at South-hill, Burntisland, by 

 Miss Cecilia Wemyss, was much admired; as was also a very fine set of Seed- 

 ling Picotees, raised in Drylaw garden. 



Several promising Seedling Dahlias were exhibited ; but no premium had 

 this year been offered for seedlings. One raised by Mr. Alexander Macdougal, 

 gardener, Beechwood, seemed remarkably good. 



J. Dickson and Sons for many beautiful plants exhibited, doing great credit to 

 Mr. Kelly, their cultivator ; among which two very splendid Geranium plants 

 deseive to be particularised, a Foster's Rusa and a Speculum muudi, both about 

 eight feet in circumference around the branches, although the plants were not 

 two feet high, and both well clothed with flowers; to Mr. John Henderson, 

 gardener to Sir George Campbell, Edenwood, for elegant Seedlings of Phlox 

 Drummondii ; to Messrs. Sang, of Kirkaldy, for a splendid collection of Carna- 

 tions ; to Mr. Peter Gammell, Hermitage, for fine China Asters and French and 

 African Mangolds ; to Mr. Butters, at Olive Bank, for curiously-striped Dahlia 

 flowcis- to Mr. David Foulis, Woodhouselee, for fine Hollyhocks; to Messrs. 

 Handasyde, who gained the first prize for Dahlias, for an additional collection 

 ot sixty flowers, and for choice striped French Marigolds and China Asteis 



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