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or, from superior treatment and mode of culture, rendered more salubrious, 

 and of exquisite flavour, will load the stalls of our market-gardeners. I call 

 upon you, then, gentlemen, for your zealous support. Say not that you 

 have no gardens, or that your gardens are inconsiderable, or that you are 

 no cultivators; you are all interested in having good and delicious fruits, 

 nutritious and delicate culinary vegetables, and in procuring them at a 

 reasonable rate, which will be the results of improved and successful cul- 

 tivation. Few are without their favourite geraniums, rose, or peony ; their 

 dahlias and chrysanthemums ; their select strawberries, plums, or cherries ; 

 their choice pears or pippins ; their superior lettuce, endive, and celery. At 

 our various exhibitions let each contribute that in which he excels, and our 

 object will be attained. Gentlemen, I fear I have trespassed too long on 

 your patience and indulgence. I will just urge one more motive for your 

 warm support of our intended society ; it is this, that, by diffusing a love of 

 plants and gardening, you will materially contribute to the comfort and 

 happiness of the laborious classes ; for the pleasure taken in such pursuits 

 . forms an unexceptionable relaxation from the toils of business, and every 

 hour thus spent is subtracted from the alehouse and other haunts of idle- 

 ;ness and dissipation. I have frequently admired a passage of Addison's, 

 analogous to the subject under consideration, and with which I hasten to 

 conclude : — 



" ' I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the 

 most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our 

 first parents before the fall. It is naturally apt to fill the mind with calm- 

 ness and tranquillity, and so lay all its turbulent passions at rest ; it gives 

 us great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence, and sug- 

 gests innumerable subjects for meditation. I cannot but think the very 

 complacency and satisfaction which a man takes in these works of nature 

 to be a laudable, if not a virtuous, habit of mind.' " 



We cannot conclude without expressing our satisfaction at the spirited 

 • manner in which the Society is supported. Sixty subscribers have already 

 .been added to its list, from Wakefield and the immediate vicinity; and we 

 doubt not that, after the first August meeting, this number will be consider- 

 ably augmented, both by amateurs and practical horticulturists. {Halifax 

 .Journal, June 13,) 



The Floral and Horticultural Society of Hull held their first Meeting for 

 the present year, for the exhibition of auriculas, polyanthuses, hyacinths, 

 bouquets, and cucumbers, on April 28th. The auriculas far surpassed any 

 shown on former occasions ; of polyanthuses there was a fair show ; the 

 hyacinths were not numerous ; and the bouquets but few, though, consider- 

 ing the season, very beautiful. The ^vhole exhibited a delightful spectacle, 

 and excited the admiration of a great number of highly respectable visitors. 

 Some excellent specimens of cucumbers were produced, but in this depart- 

 ment there was not much competition. Mr. Parker, Dr. C. R, Aldei-son, 

 and Mr. Lumb adjudged the prizes as follows : — 



Auriculas. Premium : Metropolitan, Mr. George Wharton. Green- 

 edged: 1. Stretch's Alexander, Mr. Wharton ; 2. Lee's Colonel Taylor, 

 Miss Lambert ; 5. Howard's Lord Nelson, Mr. Wharton ; 4. Smith's Water- 

 loo, Miss Lambert; 5. Stretch's Alexander, and 6. Howard's Lord Nelson, 

 Messrs, G. and W.Tindall ; 7. Grime's Hyder Ally, Mr. Carr ; 8. Stretch's 

 Alexander, Mr. Wadsworth, gardener to G. Egginton, Esq. Grey-edged : 

 1. Ryder's Prince of Waterloo, and 2. Medcalf's Lancashire Hero, Messrs. 

 G. and W, Tindall ; 3. Unknown, Miss Lambert; 4 and 5, Kenyon's Ring- 

 leader, and 6. Unknown, Messrs. G. and W. Tindall ; 7. Kenyon's Ring- 

 leader, Miss Lambert; 8. Pott's Regulator, Mr. Bell. White-edged: 1. 

 Wild's Bright Phoebus, Mr. Wharton ; 2. Hughes's Pillar of Beauty, Mr. 

 Bell ; 3. Taylor's Incomparable, Mr. Wharton ; 4. Lee's Earl Grosvenor, 

 Mr. Edward Brown, gardener to W. Jarvis, Esq. ; 5. Lee's Bright Venus, 



