354 Provincial Horticultural Societies: — Her-efordshire. 



Imperial, Mrs. Charles ; 2. Double White Primrose, John Taylor, Esq. — 

 Culinary Vegetables. Sea-kale, Mr. Fulton. Cucumbers, Mr. Tessop. 

 Broccoli: l. Mr. Hunt; 2. J. Taylor, Esq. Cabbage: 1. Early Dwarf 

 and 2. Early Wellington, J. Taylor, Esq. — Frvit. Best Keeping Apple, 

 Mr. Fleetwood. {Worcester Herald, May 2. 1829.) 



Herefordshire. 



Herefordshire Horticultural Society. — On May-day the fifteenth exhibi- 

 tion of this Society took place at our Shire Hall, and no previous meeting 

 has afforded more general satisfaction : from the backwardness of the sea- 

 son, a very different result was anticipated; but all apprehensions instantly 

 vanished on entering the room. The auriculas evinced the florist's care ; 

 we never remember to have witnessed at any place an exhibition at which 

 the varieties of that elegant flower were in greater perfection. The seed- 

 ling polyanthuses possessed great merit; and although there was a partial 

 failure in the blue Hyacinths, the other classes were conspicuously splendid. 

 It affords us much pleasure to witness the useful progress of this society: 

 since its institution there has been a rapid and obvious improvement in the 

 showy department of the florist, and in the more useful range of culinary 

 vegetables. The present exhibition also showed the increased interest that 

 is taken in its welfare, by the possessors of rare stove and green-house 

 plants. The centre stage was never more elegant or select. -The stage for 

 vegetables exhibited fine specimens of kidneybeans, cucumbers, cabbages, 

 asparagus, mushrooms, rhubarb, potatoes, sea-kale, lettuces, broccoli, and 

 some blanched succory. There were also some plates of remarkably good 

 dessert apples, as fresh in appearance as when first gathered from the trees. 

 On the Society's table we saw a little publication of the Secretary's, Mr. 

 Godsall, containing a brief account of the diflferent meetings of the Society, 

 entitled the Hereford Florist's Register. The following is a list of the 

 prizes : — 



Plants. Stove or Green-house : 1 . Cactus speciosa, C. G. Cooke, Esq. ; 

 2. Hovea Celsi, Mrs. Parkinson; 3. Gnidia sericea, Sir J. G. Cottcrell; 4. 

 Ackci-a. armata, Mrs. Gordon ; 5. Corrae'a speciosa, and 6. Eutaxia ?Hyrti- 

 folia. Sir J. G. Cotterell. Hardy: 1. bellow China Rose, and 2. Double 

 Velvet Primrose, Sir J. G. Cotterell. — Flowers. Wliite-edged Auriculas : 



1. Hughes's Pillar of Beauty, Mrs. Parkinson ; 2. Taylor's Glory, Mr. God- 

 sall. Grey-edged Auriculas : 1. Popplew ell's Conqueror, Mrs. Parkinson ; 



2. Grimses's Privateer, and 3. Pendleton's Violet, Sir J. G. Cotterell. 

 Green-edged Auriculas: 1. Grimses's Prince of Wales, Mr. Godsall ; 2. 

 Gorton's Champion, Sir J. G. Cotterell ; 5. Rider's Junius, Mrs. Parkinson. 

 Self Auriculas : 1 . Redman's Metropolitan, Mr. Godsall. Alpine Auriculas : 

 1. and 2. Seedlings, Mrs. Parkinson. Polyanthuses : 1, 2, and 3. Unknown, 

 Mrs. W. Patesliall. Double Blue Hyacinths: 1. Lord Wellington, Sir J. 

 G. Gotterell; 2. Porcelain, Mr. Nott. Double Red Hyacinths: 1. Groot 

 Vorst, and 2. Unknown, R. J. Powell ; 3. Aimable Rosette, Mrs. H. Mor- 

 gan ; 4. Constante, Mr. Godsall. Double White Hyacinths: l. Minerva, 

 and 2. Aimable Blanche, Mrs. H. Morgan ; 3. Grand Magnificent, Sir J. G. 

 Cotterell. — Fruit. Dessert Apples: 1. Unknown, Sir J. G. Cotterell; 2. 

 Manchester Pippin, Mrs. J. Phillips. — Culinary Vegetables. French Beans, 

 C. G. Cooke, Esq. Asparagus: 1. Sir J. G. Cotterell; 2. Mr. Godsall. 

 Sea-kale, Sir J. G. Cotterell. Rhubarb, Sir J. G. Cotterell. White Broc- 

 coli, J. S. Gowland, Esq. Brown Purple Broccoli, J. S. Gowland, Esq. 

 Cucumbers: 1. T. C. Bridges, Esq; 2. Sir J. G. Cotterell. Mushrooms, 

 R. J. Powell, Esq. Potatoes, Sir J. G. Cotterell. Lettuce, J. S. Gowland, 

 Esq, Cabbage, Sir J. G. Cotterell. [Hereford Journal, May 6. 1829.) 



lioss Horticultural Society. — The twenty-first show of this flourishing 

 institution took place on Wednesday the 29th ult., and notwithstanding 

 the late unprecedented cold and boisterous weather, the exhibition proved 



