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ling, J. Taylor, Esq. ; 3. Duchess of Gloucester, Mr. Smith ; 4. Unkhowiij 

 Rev. T. Waters. Lilac : 1, 2, and 5. Mr. Smith ; 4. Seedling, John Tay- 

 lor, Esq.; 5. Seedling, Mr. Smith ; 6. Blush, Rev. T. Waters. Yellow : 1. 

 and 2. Seedlings, John Taylor, Esq. ; 3. Seedling, and 4. Wells's Dwarf, Rev. 

 T. Waters; 5. Seedling, John Taylor, Esq.; 6. Snlphiirea superba, Mr. 

 Smith. White : 1. New White, Mr. Smith ; 2. Mr. Beech ; 3. Mr. Smith. 

 Dark : l. Black Turban, Rev. T. Waters; 2. and 3. Seedlings, Mr. Smith. 

 (^Worcester Her., Oct. 4.) 



Evenhdm Horticultural Society. — The fifth and last Meeting, for this sea- 

 son, of this Society, was held on the 25th of September, and was attended 

 by a numerous assemblage of the neighbouring families and principal inhab- 

 itants of the borough. The exhibition was more choice and numerous in 

 specimens both of floral and horticultural produce, than was shown at the 

 September Meeting of last year. After the prizes had been announced from 

 the chair, and exhibited to the Society, the President, Edward Rudge, Esq., 

 read a communication from Mr. Fulton, gardener to Lord Northwick, on 

 the Management of Vines in the Pinery; in which he recommended vines 

 to be raised from eyes, in preference to any other method, as they root bet- 

 ter, are shorter-jointed, and bear more abundantly ; to plant shallow, that 

 fresh soil and manure may be added when required. The practice of grow- 

 ing vegetables and flowers near the vine roots is decidedly prejudicial, as 

 tending to wear out the border. To procure round short-jointed wood, 

 he recomniends keeping a low temperature in the night, and a very high 

 one in the day, by which mode of treatment vines and pines are not excited 

 in an unnatural degree, and nature is more imitated than exactly followed, 



— the chief principle in the art of forcing. In pruning, the common kinds 

 are to be cut to one eye ; the Muscat, and other finer sorts, succeed best 

 if laid in with four or five eyes. The shrivelling of grapes in hot-houses, 

 he attributes to a greater crop of fruit on the vine than it can support : or 

 to a deficiency of heat when the berries are swelling, which particularly 

 checks the high-flavoured kinds. Vines which grow outside of the forcing- 

 house, he recommends to be taken out from November to March, and not 

 put in till the warmth of spring returns in March to swell the wood. A 

 paper on the Culture of the Hyacinth, the treatment of the bulbs, and the 

 method of producing the finest blossoms, by the gardener of Mr. Fleetwood 

 of Dunnington. He recommends the impregnating of the single hyacinth 

 with the farina of a double one, to produce a fine double flower. A com- 

 munication on the Pine-apple was also received from Mr. Jessop, of Chel- 

 tenham, recommending the retaining and fruiting of pine suckers on the 

 mother plant, after the parent fruit has been cut ofl^ as being well adapted 

 to tardy-fruiting plants, and more likely to insure large and fine-flavoured 

 fruit than the common method. The prizes were awarded as follows : 



— Dahlias. Crimson: 1. J.Taylor, Esq.; 2. H.Hudson, Esq. Purple: 

 1, H. Hudson, Esq.; 2. Sir C. Throckmorton. Scarlet: 1. Sir C.Throck- 

 morton ; 2. J. Taylor, Esq. Sulphur: 1. J. Taylor, Esq. ; 2. Mr. Valen- 

 court. Light : 1. and 2. J.Taylor, Esq. — Plants. Stove and green-house : 



1 . Stapelja grandiflora, E. Rudge, Esq.; 2. jErica colorans, E.J. Perrot, Esq. ; 

 3. Gloxinia maculata, E. Rudge, Esq. Hardy annuals: 1. J. Taylor, Esq.; 



2. Mr. Paine; 5. Mr. Maund. Coxcomb : 1. and 2. J. Taylor, Esq. — Culi- 

 nary Vegetables. Onions: 1. Rev. Mr. Parker ; 2. and 5. J. Taylor, Esq. 

 Peas : Mr. C. New. Carrots : Mr. W. Murrel. Beet ; Mr. Cheek. — 

 Fruit. Apples : 1. Mr, J, Smith ; 2. Mr. Hignel ; 3. Mr. Fulton. Pears : ]. 

 Mr. Gregory; 2. Mr. Fulton; S.Mr.Tovey. {Worcester Herald, Oct. 11.) 



Hekefordshiue. 



Herefordshire Hortrcidtural Society. — The last Exhibition for the present 

 season was held on September 27 ; and, the weather being favourable, a 



