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very fashionable assemblage honoured the truly useful and flourishing insti- 

 tution with their presence. The excellence of the fruit and flowers, the 

 scientific adjudication of the prizes, and the whole of the arrangements, 

 gave general satisfaction. The dahlias were numerous and beautiful in the 

 extreme, but there were few chrysanthemums and China asters. The apples 

 and pears were remarkably fine, and in great abundance, presenting an im- 

 mense variety of fruits, both cider and dessert, of the best sorts. The 

 peaches, grapes, nectarines, cherries, and plums were also excellent ; and 

 some of the celery and carrots equalled, if not surpassed, any we have ever 

 seen. {Bath Herald, Oct. 4.) 



Ross Horticultural Society. — The twentieth Meeting of this Society was 

 held on the 8th of October. At 12 o'clock the Annual Meeting of the 

 subscribers took place, when the present officers were reelected for the 

 year 1829, with the addition of Col. Marryatt and the Rev. M. H. Jones on 

 the committee. On entering the exhibition room, soon after two o'clock, 

 we found it crowded with the families of rank and fashion around Ross. 

 The display of fruits arranged for exhibition received the most unequivocal 

 marks of approbation ; and we can assert it was most extraordinary, as, in 

 common with every one, we expected, through the badness of the season, 

 an inferior assortment in quantity and quality. The tables were covered 

 with upwards of 300 plates of apples, pears, and grapes, the specimens were 

 particularly fine, and the plates well filled. The Society's silver medal was 

 awarded to the Rev. K. E. Money, the Rev, H, Williams, Philip Matthews, 

 Esq., and Mrs. James Rudge, for apples and pears. The show of out-door 

 grapes much surprised us, and great pains must have been taken by their 

 growers. The blaze of dahlias on a stage at the end of the room (em- 

 bracing, we understand, all the known double varieties of that most beautiful 

 flower) was somewhat subdued by a small but select assortment of stove 

 and green-house plants, tastefully placed at their back. The eflect produced 

 was most enchanting, and the mass of colour most beautiful. J. G. Ruel, 

 Esq., of Pembridge House, exhibited fourteen new varieties of corn and 

 pulse, grown by him on his farm at Newton. Of their particular merits we 

 should be glad to be informed, as we heard several agricultural gentlemen 

 complimenting Mr. Ruel for the services he was rendering his country. The 

 total number of specimens ticketed and entered on the Society's book 

 amounted to 953, and the evening's sale of fruit not removed by the ex- 

 hibitors amounted to Bl, ] 0^. 9c/., a sum at once establishing our report of 

 the fruits. 



The prizes were awai'ded as follows: — Apples. Dessert: 1. Golden 

 Pippin, Rev. K. E. Money; 2. Holmer's Kernel, Mrs. Piatt; 3. Margil, 

 Rev. K. E. Money; 4. Court d'Wick, Mr. Hooper; 5. Ribston Pippin, 

 Rev. Love Robertson. Culinary: 1. Greenling, Mrs. James Rudge; 2. 

 Orange Prunella, T. Spencer, Esq. ; 5. Wheeler's Russet, Rev. K. E. Money ; 

 4. Wheeler's Extreme, Mr. J. C. Wheeler ; 5. New Pearmain, T. Spencer, 

 Esq. Cider: 1. Hagloe Crabb, 2. Yellow Stire, and 3. Foxwhelp, Mrs. 

 James Rudge; 4. Red Beach, J. Cooke, Esq.; 5. Captain Nourse, Mrs. J. 

 Rudge. — Pears. Dessert: 1. Chaumontel, Rev. H.Williams; 2. Gan- 

 sell's Bergamot, and 3. Brown Beurre, Col. Money ; 4. New Swan's Egg, 

 Mrs, Piatt; 5. Honey Knap, Col. Money. Perry: 1. New Longland, P. 

 Matthews, Esq.; 2. Old Longland, Mr. Reynolds ; 3. Oldfield, Mrs. West- 

 faling; 4. Helen's Green, and 5. Pine Pear, Col. Money. — Out-door Grapes. 

 1. Muscadine, Mr. T. E. Jones ; 2. Black Esperion, Col. Money ; 3. Old 

 Sweetwater, Mr. T. E. Jones ; 4. New Sweetwater, C. Bliss, Esq. ; 5. Black 

 Cluster, Mrs. Piatt. — Dahlias. Dark double: 1. Diadem, Mrs. James 

 Rudge ; 2. Coronation, Messrs. Breese and Reynolds ; 5. Isabella, 4, Seed- 

 ling, and 5. Superbissima, Mrs. Westfaling. Light double: 1. Mont Blinc, 

 Messrs. Breese and Reynolds; 2. Princess Victoria, Mrs. Westfaling; 3. 



