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Scarlet Flakes. — 2, Addinbrook's Lydia, Mr. Lees ; 2, Pearson's Madame 

 Mara, Mr. Denstone ; 3, Done's Lord C. Townhend, Ditto; 4, Taylor's 

 Festival, Mr. Smith. 



Purple Flakes. — l,Costar's Squire Clark, Mr. Denstone; 2, Welden's Lady 

 of the Lake, Mr. Bramall ; 3, Welden's Cleopatra, Mr. Denstone; 4, Bel- 

 lerophon, Mr. Drewry. 



Rose Flakes. — Clerk's Lady Scott, Mr. Bramall; 2, Lucas's Lady Grey, 

 Mr. Denstone; 3, Pearson's Sir George Grewe, Ditto; 4, Fletcher's Duchess, 

 Ditto. 



Picotees, Red. — 1, Martin's Prince George, Mr. Smith; 2, Martin's Victoria, 

 Mr. Drewry; 3, Lichfield Hero, Mr. Buck; 4, Redfern's Reform, Mr. Clerk. 



Purple. — 1, Lees's Cleopatra, Mr. Woody; 2, Seedling, Mr. Clerk; 3, 

 Seedling, Mr. Smith; 4, Hut'ton's Isabella, Mr. Lees. 



Store Plants, Mr. Buck. Herbaceous Ditto, Mr. Stokes and Mr. Buck. 

 Greenhouse Ditto — 1, Mr. Bramall; 2, Mr. Buck; 3, Mr. Fowler; 4, Mr 

 Willcox. Jnnuals, Mr. R. C. Brown. 



FAKNn.VM FLORISTS SOCIETV. 



A Meeting of this Society took place on the 8th of September, when the 

 following prizes were awarded by the judges : — 



Dahlias. — ], Prince of Orange, Lady Fordwich, Metropolitan Perfection, 

 Lilac Perfection, Desdemona, Levick's Incomparable, Springfield Rival, and 

 Widnall's Perfection — Mr. Cooper, gardener to the Duke of Wellington; 2, 

 Newick Rival, Metropolitan Perfection, Queen of Dahlias, Bride of Abydos, 

 Bishop of Winchester, Widnall's Perfection, Marchioness of Abercorn, and 

 Lady Fordwich — Mr. Macdonald, gardener to the Bishop of Winchester ; 3, 

 Prince of Orange, Calypso, Criterion, Granta. Countess of Liverpool, Xew 

 ick Rival, Foundling of St. Leonard's, and Mrs. Wilkinson — Mr. Gains, 

 gardener to W. Xewnham, Esq. ; 4, Granta, Adventure, Countess of Liver- 

 pool, Xewick Rival, Lord Liverpool, Wells's Perfection, Wells's Enchantress, 

 and William Cobbelt — Mr. Foster, gardener to the Rev. G. T. Xoel; 5, Ad- 

 venture, Criterion, Granta, French Yellow, Queen of Dahlias, Desdemona, 

 Springfield Rival, and Marchioness of Abercorn — Mr. Edwards; 6, Lady 

 Fordwich, Granta, Newick Rival, Prince of Orange, Solomon, Rosa Mundi, 

 Wells's Enchantress, and Metropolitan Perfection — Rev. Mr. Louudes. 



Seedlings. — 1, Beauty of Westbrook, Mr. Evershed, gardener to — Cohill, 

 Esq. ; 2, Beauty of Fambara, Master Loundes. 



Judges. — Mr. Bates, Oxford; Mr. Marsh, Westcott; and Mr. Dorking, 

 Brednor, gardener to T. S. Seawell, Esq. 



WEST-RIDING OF YORKSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The second Meeting of this Society for the present year was held on the 

 31st of July, at the Music Saloon, Wakefield. The arrangement and classi- 

 fication of the different subjects of Horticultural produce was excellent, and 

 well adapted to present to the eye of every beholder, in all parts of the spa- 

 cious apartment, a favourable view of the whole collection. A platform 

 raised at the upper extremity of the room, for the Judges who awarded the 

 distribution of the different prizes, and the Curators, together with the Pre- 

 sident and Vice-Presidents, was surmounted by an arch finely festooned 

 and decorated with a tastefully intermingled variety of the rarest and most 

 beautiful flowers, in gay and fancied devices ; over the centre of the arch 

 was a crown and diadem, fashioned in flowers of variegated hues, — all of 

 them, as the President subsequently announced, of the culture of Mr. W. 

 Barratt, proprietor of the Botanic and other estensire Gardens, in the im- 



