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Flowers. Tulips. Bybloemens : 1. Mr. Sharp, Montrose; 2. Alexander 

 Smith, Rosemount. Roses : 1. Alexander Smith ; 2. Mr. Sharp. Bizards : 



1. Alexander Smith; 2. Mrs. Sim, Montrose. Double Anemones : 1. Mr. 

 Sharp; 2. Alexander Smith. Double Stocks: James Tough, Old Mon- 

 trose. Pelargoniums. Dark Ground: 1. and 2. James Tough. Light 

 Ground : 1 . Mr. Sharp ; 2. James Tough. Best variety : 1. James Tough ; 



2. Mr. Sharp. Best Bouquet of Plowers, from green-house : James 

 Tough. From open border: I.Alexander Smith; 2. James Tough. — Fruit. 

 Gooseberries : Mr. Robert Clark, Montrose. — Culinary Vegetables. Peas : 

 John Begbie, Rossie. Potatoes: I.John Hardie, Brotherton; 2. Alexander 

 Smith. Turnips : James Tough. 



Extra-Prizes. Kept Apples: 1. James Tough; 2. Alexander Smith. 

 Seedling Geranium: John Begbie. Peas, from the open border: James 

 Tough. {Montrose Review, June 5.) 



Dumfermline Florists' Society's Shoiv of Tulips, June 2. — The flowers 

 consisted of Bybloemens, Incomparable Verports, and Bizards, and prizes 

 were awarded as follows : — 



1. Mr. David Hutcheson ; 2. William Meldrum ; 3. John Angus; 4. John 

 Duncan; 5. D. Inglis; 6. James Elder. 



This was allowed to be the most splendid show of tulips ever exhibited 

 in Dunfermline. {Scotsman, June 1 0.) 



Pine- Apples have been groiun to perfection, in common Dung Hot-beds, for 

 the last seven years, by Mr. Hosie, gardener to Lord Lynedoch, at Lyne- 

 doch. I lately saw eighteen of the fruit, about 2 lbs. weight each. — Charles 

 Sidey. Perth, Jan. 31.1829. 



Art. in. The Marquess of Hertford' s Villa in the Regent's Parle. 



We lately had an opportunity of inspecting the exterior of the building, 

 and walking round the grounds. The situation of the house is elevated, 

 and the extended front commands views of the water and a great part 

 of the Regent's Park, in such a way as completely to appropriate them. 

 The architecture is simple and elegant, with the exception of the conserv- 

 atory, in the roof of which are two sloping semicircular windows, which 

 instantly struck us as having been taken from two shop fronts. We are 

 astonished that a man of the Marquess of Hertford's taste and wealth can 

 bear the sight of them for a moment. Doubtless, we were more affected 

 than we otherwise should have been, from knowing of two green-houses, at 

 or near Bayswater, actually made up of old windows and shop fronts ; and 

 of one of them, not a great way from a certain grand square called Orme's 

 Square, containing a semicircular window-head not unlike the Marquess of 

 Hertford's. The entrance front of the house is good, and also the main 

 stack of chimneys; but, at one end, there is a copper chimney tube or top, 

 which disfigures the whole building. How that deformity can be permitted 

 to remain, we are at a loss to conceive. 



The grounds, 10 or 12 acres, possess a much greater variety of surface 

 than we could have expected, in consequence of an ancient brook, the 

 course of which is now turned another way, having passed through them, 

 and worn out a fine circuitous dell, in the bottom of which a walk has been 

 very properly introduced. We are sorry that this is the only walk that we 

 can praise. There is a serpentine one, such as would not have occasioned 

 any surprise had it been met with in a cockney garden of the last century; 

 we have seen such another in a modern garden (Vol. IIL p. 562.), but not 

 quite so bad. We hope our noticing this walk will not injure any one, 



