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Apples of the last season, in good preservation ; who also exhibited a fine 

 bunch of the Black Prince Grapes. To Dr. Tayleur, for a dish of China 

 Strawberries. To Sir Thomas D. Acland, Bart, for Erythrina crista galli, 

 Metrosideros maligna, and Fuchsia gracilis. To Miss Johnes, for Thunber- 

 gia alata, trained, and Pelargonium Devoniae grafted. To Mr. Dymond, nur- 

 seryman, Exeter, for Gloxinias, Fiicca filamentosa, and hardy Perennials; 

 and for a new Seedling Apple raised by Mr. John Hutchings, his foreman. 



The judges were the Rev. Finney Belfield of Primley Hill, Mr. Pontey 

 of Plymouth, and Mr.Veitch of Killerton. {Western Times, Aug. 1.) 



The three cucumbers of the Turkey sort, grown by William Billingsley, 

 gardener to John Newcome, Esq., and exhibited on the 30th of July, at tlie 

 Subscription Rooms, measured in all 6 ft. 5 in. in length, and weighed 

 10 lbs. The dwarf cockscombs in pots, of which there were six from the 

 same garden, were also extraordinary productions ; some of them not being 

 more that 1 ft. high from the surface of the mould, and measuring 26 in. in 

 length over, and 14 in. across the crest. This account appeared on the 

 13th inst.in Trewmaii's Flying Post. — An Exonian. August 28. 1829. 



South Wales. 



Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, and South Wales Horticultural Societj/. -— 

 At the Meeting of this Society on the 1st of July, the show was held in the 

 Town-Hall, Cardiff, instead of the Grand Jury Room, as heretofore, the 

 latter having been found too small for the purpose, and to the Hall also 

 the General Meeting was adjourned, as soon as tlie judges of the show had 

 announced that they were ready to deliver in their adjudications. The 

 chairman, J. H. Moggridge, Esq., of Woodfield, congratulated the Meeting 

 upon the increasing respectability and prosperity of the Society, which, he 

 said, he had no doubt would both progressively increase, till it had attained 

 that high rank amongst the horticultural societies of the island, to which it 

 was on every account entitled. Its finances he pronounced to be in a very 

 satisfactorj' state, the number of its members continually increasing, its 

 shows more and more enlarged and varied, and its prospects of doing cre- 

 dit to the district in which it was situated, and of being the instrument of 

 rational amusement and good to all classes of the community, more and 

 more flattering. The Hon. W. B. Grey, president, was reelected, as were 

 all the vice-presidents ; and the names of the Earl of Jersey, Lord Dyne- 

 vor. Col. Lewis, Sir C. Cole, Major Mackworth, Col. Cameron, J. P. Wil- 

 kins, Esq., and the Rev. F. Gough, added to the list. The gratifying pro- 

 posal of Sir Charles Morgan, Vice-Patron of the Society, for holding the 

 Monmouthshire show, on the 5th of August, at Tredegar, with the offer of 

 his green-house for the occasion, was announced from the chair in terms 

 of suitable commendation ; and extracts from Sir Charles Morgan's letters 

 read, from which it appeared that his liberal offer was accompanied by the 

 very handsome expression of the Hon. Baronet's desire, that " the show 

 should be held at Tredegar solely under the Society's regulations, as if at 

 the King's Head, or elsewhere." The report from the judges of the show 

 being then handed to the chair, the following adjudication of prizes was 

 announced, viz. 



Melons, John Moggridge, Esq., Gabalva. Grapes : Black, Col. Morgan, 

 Llandough Castle; White, and best Frontignac, the Hon. W. B. Grey, as 

 well as that for the best raspberries. Cherries, J. Moggridge, Esq. Cur- 

 rants : White, Col. Morgan ; Red, Richard Hill, Esq., Llandaff. Pinks, the 

 Hon. W. B. Grey. Balsam, Richard Hill, Esq. Best and most curious 

 plant of any description : 1. Rev. J. M. Traherne ; 2. Rev. E. W. Richards. 

 Best and most beautiful plant: 1. Rev. E.W.Richards ; 2. Richard Hill, 

 Esq. Roses, Col. Morgan. 



Extra-Prizes. Strawberries, E. P. Richards, Esq., Cardiff. Second best 

 Melon, the Hon. W.B. Grey. Best Red and White Currants, 1. and 2. J. M. 



