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nolds; 3. Cabbage Provens, T. Ruds^e, Esq. ; 4. Lee's Perpetual, Messrs. 

 Breese and and Reynolds ; 5. Moss de Manx, Mrs. Westfaling. 



Plants. Stove or' Green-house : 1. Platylobium formosum, J. Cooke, Esrj. ; 

 2.Lamb(^rtij,and 5. Young's Scarlet Geranium, Rev. T. Underwood ; 4. jBrica 

 ventricosa superba, and 5. Crassuia coccinea, Mrs. Westfaling. Hardy : 

 1. Kalmi« latifolia, Mrs. Westfaling; 2. ^pirse'a idmifolia, Mr. Reynolds; 



3. Digitalis alba, Mr. Reynolds ; 4. Campanula ^ersicifolia, Mrs. Piatt ; 

 5, Dianthus flore pleno, Mr. Reynolds. 



Fruii. Straivberries : 1. Keen's Seedling, Mr. T.E. Jones ; S.Carolina, 

 Mrs. Westfaling; 3. Hautboy, Miss Harvey; 4. Roseberrj', and 5. Bath 

 Scarlet, Col, Money. Cherries: 1. Early May, Mrs. Westfaling; 2. May 

 Duke, R. Compton, Esq.; 3. Dredge's Early, and 4. Elton, Mr. Barrett; 

 5. Amber, Mr. Sharp. 



Cauliflowers. 1. Mr. Reynolds ; 2. J. Cooke, Esq. ; .s. Rev. L. Robertson ; 



4. Mr. Reynolds ; 5. J. Cooke, Esq. {Hereford Journ., June 25.) 

 Gloucester Horticidtural Society. — We are rejoiced to observe the happy 



and favourable auspices under which this useful institution is established, 

 the appearance of the first show on the 23d of May, holding out a prospect 

 most nattering to those who have so meritoriously exerted themselves in 

 promoting the undertaking. Although rather late in the season, the display 

 of tulips was remarkably fine, even in the eye of the more experienced con- 

 noisseur ; and the exhibition of geraniums and heaths, and of a great variety 

 of rare, beautiful, and magnificent stove and green-house plants, was such 

 as to give extreme gratification to all present. If any thing could vie with 

 the bounteous gifts of Flora, which were concentrated upon this occasion, 

 it would be the splendid assemblage of company, which comprised all the 

 beauty and fashion in the neighbourhood. We were much pleased with 

 the exertions of the inhabitants of Ross and its vicinity, who, with great 

 liberality, came forward to support an association in a more extensive dis- 

 trict, which may ultimately become a powerful rival to their own cele- 

 brated Society. The number of specimens exhibited on this occasion, 

 amounted to not less than 900. To enumerate the generous contributors 

 to this splendid show would be an endless task, and it would be equally 

 in vain to attempt to particularise all the specimens set forth; but amongst 

 the most prominent, which, in addition to those named in the prize list 

 below, excited general admiration, we may mention a superb Cactus spe- 

 ciosissima, contributed by Mrs. Dowdeswell, and the Musa paradisiaca, or 

 plantain tree of Linnaeus, the Phoe'nix dactylifera, or date palm, and the 

 i^icus elasticus, or India rubber tree, all exhibited by Mr. Jessop, of this 

 town. Mr. Westfaling also forwarded some very curious botanical pro- 

 ductions. The high gratification afforded to the spectators by these rare 

 specimens, we are confident, will operate as a stimulus to others to afford 

 similar aid upon future occasions. The show of vegetables was remarkably 

 fine, and those which remained unclaimed at the appointed hour, were sold 

 for the benefit of the fund, which already boasts of three hundred truly 

 respectable subscribers. Henry Rosser, Esq., of Mitcheldean, Richmond 

 Shute, Esq., and William Hooper, Esq., of Ross, were appointed judges, and 

 the prizes were awarded as follows : — 



Tidips Feathered Bizard: 1. Captain White, Mr. Cary Cocks ; 2. T. B. 

 Parkyns, Esq. ; 5. Trafalgar, Mr. C. Cocks ; 4. T. B. Parkyns, Esq. ; 5. Bell's 

 King, Mr. Cary Cocks. Flamed Bizard : 1 and 2. T. B. Parkyns ; 3 

 and 4. Mr. Cary Cocks ; 5. T. B. Parkyns, Esq. Feathered Bybloemen : 

 1, 2, 3, 4. Black Baguet, and 5. Grand Villidur, Mr. C. Cocks. Flamed 

 Bi/bloemen: 1. Washington, Mrs. T. Rudge ; 2. Neat and Clean, and 3 

 Prince Sovereign, Mr. C. Cocks; 4. T. B. Parkyns, Esq. ; 5. Mrs. T. Rudge. 

 Feathered Rose : 1 . Ceres prima, Mr. C. Cocks ; 2. Mr. J. D. Wheeler ; 5 and 

 4. Rose unique, Mr. C. Cocks ; 5. T. B. Parkyns, Esq. Flamed Rose : 1 . 



