418 Provincial Horticultural Societies, — Westmoreland. 



Brewis, Alnwick ; 2. No Bribery, Messrs. Newton ; 3. Bowman's Lively 

 Green, and 4. Green Ocean, Mr. Brewis, Alnwick. Whites: 1. Reformer, 



2. Smiling Beauty, 3. Denny Triumphant, and 4. Cheshire Lass, Messrs. 

 Newton. 



Carnations. 1. Harvey's Lord Ravensworth, and 2. Sherwood's Corin- 

 thus, Mr. A. Oliver, gardener to the Hon. H. T. Liddell, M.P., Esling- 

 ton; 5. Pope's London Queen, Mr. Curry, jun., Brandon ; 4. Cartwright's 

 Lady Byron, Mr. A. Oliver; 5. Hand's Prince of Wales, Mr. Curry, jun. 

 Mr. A. Oliver produced two seedling carnations, which are seldom pro- 

 duced, and named them Whittingham's Glory and Eslington Triumphant. 



Named Picotees. 1. Miss Seymour, 2. Gloria Mundi, 5. Lady Normanby, 

 4. Lady Williamson, and 5. Miss Maria Liddell, Mr. A. Oliver. All those 

 picotees are of his own raising. 



Seedling Picotees. 1. Florantia, and 2. Fair Eleanor, Mr. A. Oliver; 



3. Omnium Bonum, Mr. Curry; 4. Scott's Speculation, Mr. J. Scott, Whit- 

 tingham ; 5. Bowden's Chance, Mr. W. Bowden, Wiiittingham. {Ibid.) 



Westmoreland. 



The Kendal Mechanics' Berry Show took place on the 2d of August, 

 when the following sweepstakes were awarded : — 



Reds: 1. Edward Hodgson's Huntsman, 19 dwts. 6grs., a brass pan; 2. 

 James Philipson's Top Sawyer, 18 dwts. 3grs., a garden spade; 3. Thomas 

 Hodgson's Roaring Lion, 18 dwts., a pruning-knife. Yellows: 1. Edward 

 Hinde's Rockwood, 17 dwts. 7^grs., a copper kettle; 2. William Hodg- 

 son's Rockwood, ledwts. 4igrs., a watering-pan. Greens: 1. Edward 

 Hodgson's New Angler, 14 dwts. 11 grs., a copper kettle; 2. John Swain- 

 son's Greenwood, 13 dwts. 9 grs., a pruning-knife. Whites: i. Edward 

 Hinde's Wellington's Glory, 16 dwts. 22 grs., a set of knives and forks; 

 2. Edward Hodgson's Lady Delamore, 15 dwts. 20 grs., a handkerchief. 

 {Westmoreland Advertiser, Aug. 9.) 



Lancashire. 



The Liverpool Floral and Horticidtural Society held their first Show of 

 Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables, for the present year, on the 24th of April, 

 and it was honoured by a very numerous attendance of the most wealthy 

 and respectable families in this town and neighbourhood ; a beautiful spring 

 day shining out, in contrast with three or four of incessant rain which had 

 preceded, having contributed greatly to enhance the ordinary attraction, 

 and enliven the scene. 



The fixtures of the machinery used in the exercises of the pupils of Mr. 

 Hamon, whose school of gymnastics is held in the room used on this 

 occasion, having been completely enveloped in branches of various species 

 of evergreens, formed a beautiful rustic bower, in which benches, com- 

 modiously arranged, afforded convenient resting places for a considerable 

 portion of the company. Two rows of tables, leading down the centre of 

 the room, were covered, one with the numerous specimens of the various 

 species of auriculas and polyanthuses exhibited for the prizes, many of which 

 excited the admiration of the most competent judges by their delicacy and 

 beauty ; the other with the fruits and esculents, the produce of the horti- 

 cultural skill and industry of the competitors for prizes in that department, 

 which also elicited the marked admiration of the judges and visitors. 



Along the sides of the room were ranged the stands, covered with a 

 numerous collection of the most beautiful productions of the stove and 

 green-house, together with a very pleasing variety of heaths and herbaceous 

 plants. The prizes having been awarded by the judges to the various 

 claimants, and the specimens arranged in their several classes in the order 

 of their excellence, the doors were opened to the public at two o'clock, 

 and the succession of visitors filling the room continued, without inter- 



