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EXHIBITION OF TULIPS AT MANCHESTER, 1851. 



tion, held at the Corn Exchange in this town. It was then decided 

 by the Committee that the meeting for 1851 should be held at Derby. 

 In the interim there has arisen a little misunderstanding between some 

 of the exhibitors and the Committee, and the result has been (though 

 there has been for some years an exhibition in this town,) that this 

 year the show should be of greater magnitude. Tltis meeting was 

 held on Friday, May 3Cth, at the Belle Vue Gardens, a very pretty 

 pl.:ce of resort, about three miles out of the town, a place very appro- 

 priate for the purpose. The Tulips were placed in a covered tent, 

 upwards of fifty yards in length, and lam pleased to report that it was 

 an imposing sight. A table fifty yards long, covered with blooms, was 

 a display that only a Tulip fancier can duly appreciate. The whole 

 was far superior lo the grand northern gathering of the last year. 



It really is a pleasure to see that the cultivators around Manchester 

 are making a rapid stride in the march of improvement, and at this 

 exhibition they came out well, which, with a few exceptions, would not 

 displease the most fastidious fancier, and even those few exceptions 

 appear to be more the clinging to old associations than a wish to be 

 diverse from the rules laid down in the southern parts of the country. 



The prizes were as follows : — 



One Pan, to which a pint Silver Taukard was awarded. 



