Wiltshire. 603 



Variabilis, Unique, Rhoda, Topaz, Lady Kinnaird, Glory of the West, St. 

 Leonard's Rival, Ruby, Springfield Rival, Conqueror of Europe, Ovid, Eva, 

 and Brown's Sarah. — Amateurs : Twenty-four Blooms : first prize : Mr. 

 Searle, Cambridge ; Countess of Mansfield, Kingscote Rival, Rienzi, Wid- 

 nall's Perfection, Squibb's Purple Perfection, Conqueror of Europe, Knight's 

 Victory, Sir H. Fletcher, Topaz, Ruby, Springfield Major, Rosa Elegans, 

 Blandina, Etonia, JefFery's Triumphant, Suffolk Hero, Middlesex Rival, Sarah, 

 Countess of Torrington, Beauty of Lullingston, Dod's Mary, Royal Stan- 

 dard, and Conductor. — Seedlings : First Prize : Cup, Mr. Smith, Worcester. 

 — Device or Group : First Prize : Mr. Coudrey, Edgbaston ; Second Prize : 

 Master William Pulling. (^Birmingham Journal, Sept. 15.) 



Coventry and Warwickshire Horticultural and Floricidtural Society. — 

 May 24. This show was for fruit, vegetables, and exotic plants. (Gard. Gaz., 

 July 7.) 



Wiltshire. — Wilts Horticultural Society. — Aprils. The forced shrubs 

 particularly merit our notice. There were seedling azaleas so laden with 

 blooms, that the branches were entirely concealed, and the kalmias and hybrid 

 rhododendrons were superior as specimens to any we have ever seen ex- 

 hibited. The stove plants, though not numerous, were of a choice descrip- 

 tion ; and amongst the green-house plants we observed several species of very 

 difficult culture, in a state of great perfection. The plants not for competition 

 were supplied by Mr. Squibb (of the Fisherton Nursery), and to him the 

 Society is indebted for the exhibition of a splendid stove plant, Gesnera 

 Cooper/i, the flowers of which are of an intense scarlet. Mr. Squibb also ex- 

 hibited a new seedling variety of rhododendron, and a plant of the Mahon/a 

 ^quifolium. 



The names of the principal exhibitors appear in tlie subjoined list of a few of 

 the chief prizes: — Plants. To Mr. Dodds, gardener to Col. Baker, M.P., 

 for the best stove plant, Oncidium flexuosum ; to Mr. Alford, gardener to T. 

 King, Esq., for the best green-house plant, Podoiobium chorozemaefolium ; to 

 Mr. Brown, gardener to the Hon. S. Herbert, M.P., for the best specimen 

 plant, Deutz/a scabra ; to Mr. Dodds, second ditto, seedling azalea ; to Mr. 

 Imber, gardener to A. B, Lambert, Esq., for Ipomoe^a Horsfall». (Salisbury 

 Herald, April 7. 1838.) 



July 19. The display of plants was not abundant ; but, to compensate for 

 deficiency in number, there were many choice specimens of great merit. The 

 green-house plants were principally of recent introduction, and the collections 

 of cut roses, which were very numerous, comprised varieties of great beauty 

 and rarity. But the most attractive and curious object in the show-room was 

 a new specimen of cactus, resembling a lady's muff, exhibited by A. B. Lam- 

 bert, Esq., the president of the Society ; and lately procured (together with 

 another specimen of the name kind, also in the possession of Mr. Lambert) 

 from some Indians, at a distance of 400 miles within the interior of Mexico. 

 The supply of fruit was very great, and we never recollect to have witnessed 

 so much variety and excellence in this department. The cottagers' produc- 

 tions were very meritorious, and many of their vegetables were scarcely in- 

 ferior to those exhibited by their more wealthy neighbours. The plants not 

 for competition were supplied by Mr. Squibb of the Fisherton Nursery, and 

 consisted of an extensive assortment of many of the most interesting species 

 of stove and green-house plants. He also exhibited a collection of 40 beau- 

 tiful varieties of German stocks, and a stand of heartsease containing 50 of the 

 most recent varieties. From Mr. Wheeler of Warminster there was a fine 

 collection of cut roses, consisting of 104 varieties ; and also a dish of Elton 

 strawberries. This strawberry, from its enormous size, and being a late bearer, 

 bids fair to be generally cultivated. (Ibid., July 21.) 



Sept. 11. There was a large and most fashionable attendance of visitors, 

 and the collection of plants was not deficient for the autumnal season. The 

 display of fruits and vegetables was abundant, and of excellent quality ; and it 

 would be unjust to pass over the cottagers* productions, without bestowing 



