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gave one guinea ^ half of which he requested might be given to the 

 person who took honey without destroying bees. 



" To the Patron, President, Vice-President, and Committee, of the Lan- 

 caster Floral and Horticultural Society. 



" Gentlemen, — Having been appointed by you to inspect the gardens 

 and stocks of bees belonging to cottagers, who had sent in their names 

 as competitors, according to your rules, we beg leave to lay the follow- 

 ing report before you : — 



" 1st. Thos. Holmes, of Thurnham, labourer in husbandry ; garden 

 and orchard, 34 perches, or thereabouts. Crop : two beds of onions, a 

 quantity of do. Ibr seed ; peas and cabbages, raspben-ies and strawber- 

 ries, all very fine, but the strawberries were not so large or so forward 

 as J. Whiteside's; potato his principal crop, and well managed ; goose- 

 berry and currant trees, a large quantity, and in good health and bear- 

 ing, and dressed in a projier manner for producing a croji ; three small 

 beds of carrots ; a few flowers, and mangel wurzcl plants, for winter 

 food for his cow ; fruit-trees, all his own planting, about ten or twelve 

 years old, most of them his own grafting, is working some this present 

 year, and in pre\ ions years regularly improved the old stock ; the whole 

 remarkably healthy. This garden is entirely worked by himself at 

 nights and mornings. 



" 2d. Kichd. Foxcroft, of Hepsham, labourer in husbandry. Garden, 

 1.3 perches, or thereabouts. Crop : four beds of onions ; early cabbages 

 in the alleys ; remainder of the garden in beans, peas, and potatoes, all 

 very good, especially the potatoes; one small bed of rhubarb; very few 

 flowers, chiefly Brompton Stocks, planted here and there on the hedges 

 of the beds. N.U. This is the first year he has had the ground, and 

 has been prevented by the building of a wall, on two sides, from having 

 it in the exact order he might have had it. Gooseberry and other trees 

 are small, in consequence of their being recently planted. He has at 

 present seven hives of bees, four old and three new swarms ; has had 

 five new swarms in the present year, two of wliich intermixed, and 

 went into one ; the other he sold. Foxcroft makes his own hives. 



" 3d. Mr. Josej)li Whiteside, of the ancient school-house, Thurnham. 

 Garden, G{ perches customary measure. Crop : the gable end of his 

 house, red currant trees neatly trained to it ; a (|uaulity of standard 

 currant and gooseberry trees in the body of the garden," young and in 

 good bearing order ; three narrow beds of strawberries the whole Icugth 

 of the garden very fine ; a quantity of dwarf early peas, in excellent 

 condition, some of the kind gathered on the 4 th of .lune, the ground has 

 been re-cropped ; potatoes also got at the same time ; two small beds of 

 onions ; one bed of mint ; a small fancy (lower kiiott. llcniainder of 

 tlic garden, early potatoes very healthy looking, neatly jjlanted and ]mo- 

 tected from tlie north and north west wind, by reed hurdles; no ground 

 out of crop but the alleys, which are very narrow ; the whole remarka- 

 bly clean. 



" Itli. John Hutton, of fliilton, labourer in husbandry, ilees : has 

 eight hives, viz. five old and three new swarms, one of which has been 

 placed in a bee-house, for the purpose of pnlliug one hive over another, 

 in order to take tlie honey without destroying the bees. J. IIullou 

 makes his own hives. 



(.Signed) " Tiiomar Daiiwen. 



" John Walmslev. 



" Lancatter, June 21, IHM." 



