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PART II. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. 2\ansactions of the Botanical and Horticultural Society 

 of the Counties of Durham, Northumberland, and Newcastle upon 

 Tyne. "Vol. I. Part I. Newcastle. 8vo, pp. 76. Not sold. 



After a list of officers is the report for the year ending 

 August, 1827. The committee call the attention to the list 

 of prizes which have been awarded " to different members of 

 the Society, at its exhibitions, which have been, as most of 

 the members of the Society have witnessed, of very great 

 excellence. At the suggestion of the President for the last 

 year, in addition to the exhibitions held in Newcastle, meetings 

 have been held at Durham and Hexham, and one is intended 

 to be held at Alnwick, in September, for distributing prizes 

 for choice flowers, fruits, &c., for the convenience and en- 

 couragement of members resident in the neighbourhood of 

 those towns. 



In September, 1826, thirteen prizes were given away; in 

 November, nine ; in January, 1827, six; in March, four; in 

 May, seven ; in June, eight ; and in July, ten. At a meeting 

 held at Durham three prizes were given away ; and at one at 

 Hexham ten prizes. In September, 1827, the gold medal was 

 awarded to Mr. Bell, gardener to G. Hutchinson, Esq., for a 

 bunch of White Portugal grapes, weighing 5^1bs , grown on 

 a plant received from Messrs. Falla and Co., nurserymen, in 

 the spring of 1825, but not planted out till July following. 

 Some remarkably fine Black Hamburgh grapes were produced 

 by Colonel Shadforth of Witton-le- Wear from a- freestone wall 

 facing the south, without any artificial heat or glass whatever. 

 A statement of accounts occupies a page (21.), and next comes 



1. On the Utility of planting Orchards in the District of the 

 Society, 8fc. By Mr. William Falla, jun. 



Orchards and fruit-gardens are very much wanted in this 

 district; there is an immense consumption of fruits, especially 

 apples, and the supply is chiefly from abroad and from Nor- 

 folk and Suffolk. Objections relative to soil and climate 

 may be got over by adopting the varieties of apples, pears, 



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