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The jiinks were peculiarly beautiful, aud the medal for them was awarded to Mr. 

 William Cuthbcrtson, i;artlencr to the Earl of Rosebery, Dahneny Park. A 

 premium having been offered for the best-grown, exotic, tender plant, whether 

 in flower or not, three competitors appeared. The medal was awarded to 

 Mr. Kelly, propagator at Messrs. Dickson and Sons, luverleith Nurseries, 

 for a magnificent plant of ^'epenthes distillatoria, bearing a spike of female 

 flowers, and very large and perfect pitchers. The other plants were Cojfca 

 arabica, coming into flower, from Dr. Ncill's, and Hoy« carnosa, trained 10ft. 

 liigh, and clotlied with flowers. Some very large and beautiful noblesse 

 peaches, from the early peach-house at Erskine House, were much admired ; 

 and a premium of half a guinea was voted to Mr. George Sheills, gardener 

 to Lord Blantyre, as a mark of approbation of his success as a cultivator. 

 (Scotsi)inn, July 19. 18:i7.) 



Edinburgh Horticullurnl Societi/. — Sept. For the best three sorts of peaches 

 from the open wall ; first prize to Mr. John Braiti, gardener to George Sim- 

 son, Esq., of Pitcorthie House, the kinds being royal George, red Magdalen, 

 and noblesse ; second prize, to Mr. John Robertson, gardener to Lord Gra}', 

 Kinfauns, for noblesse, galande, and French mignonne. For the best two 

 sorts of nectarine from a glazed house, to Mr. James Mackintosh, gardener to 

 Robert Ferguson, Esq., at Archerfield ; the kintls being the Newington and 

 Du Telliers. For the best three sorts of apricot from the open Mall, to Mr. 

 James Kidd, gardener to Lord Kinnaird, Rossie Priory, For the best six 

 sorts of plums, to Mr, James Murray, gardener to Andrew Fletcher, Esq., of 

 Saltoun ; the kinds being Coe's golden drop, green gage, wine-sour, Ferney 

 Hall plum, Orleans, and white magnum bonum. For the best figs of any 

 variety ; first prize to Mr. Peter Wood, gardener to the Earl of Hopctoun, 

 Ormiston Hall ; second prize, to Mr. James Smith, gardener to the Earl of 

 Hopetoun, Hopctoun House. For the best three sorts of summer pears, to 

 Mr. Arthur Calder, gardener to George Sligo, Esq , of Seacliff"; the kinds 

 being the jargonelle, green yair, and Longueville. For the best four sorts of 

 grapes, the first prize was awarded to Mr. James Falconer, gardener to Sir 

 David Erskine, Cambo House; the kinds being white muscat, black Ham- 

 burgh, black Frontignan and white Frontignan ; the second prize, to Mr. 

 Robert Arthur, gardener to Lady Jane Hamilton Dalrymple, Wall Tower 

 Garden ; the kinds being white Frontignan, white muscat, Chasselas musquc, 

 and black Hamburg. A premium was also awarded to Mr. Arthur for pro- 

 ducing the largest cluster of grapes. For the best cluster of a recently intro- 

 duced grape, the medal was voted to Mr. Alexander Smith, gardener to 

 William Forbes, Esq., of Callendar House ; the kind being the Cochin-China 

 grape. For the finest queen pine-apple, to Mr. James Smith, at Hopetoun 

 House. For the best-grown pine-apple of any other variety, to Mr. William 

 Cuthbcrtson, gardener to the Earl of Rosebery, Dalmeny Park. For the best 

 three sorts of melons, tlie medal was voted to Mr. James Falconer, gardener, 

 Cambo House ; the kinds being Arkley's green -fleshed, Egyptian green, and 

 Windsor green. For the greatest variety of ditterent kinds of fruit, the medal 

 was awarded to Mr. James Murray, Saltoun Garden, who produced no fewer 

 than ninety-eight sorts. For the best six varieties of rose de quatre saisons, 

 a premium was voted to Mr. Charles Berry, foreman to Messrs P. Lawson 

 and Son, Golden Acre. For the finest bouquet of autumnal flowers tastefully 

 arranged, a premium was assigned to Mr. William Smith, gardener to Miss 

 Scott, Mount Lodge ; and there was a similar award to Messrs. Cleghorn for 

 a Victoria crown, formed of flowers produced in their Prince's Street 

 nurseries. 



Small premiums were awarded for various extra productions ; in particular, 

 to Mr. George Sheills, gardener at Erskine House, for fine black Hamburg 

 grapes, from a flued wall, without the aid of glass; to Mr. John Brown, gar- 

 dener to the Alexander Smith, Esq., at Woodlands, near Duddingston, for 

 samples of the fruit of the eatable winter cherry of Physalis peruviana, and of 

 marmalade made from the same; to Mr. William Buchanan, gardener at Cul- 



