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pleased with the exhibition which had been submitted to their view. We 

 trust that the patronage which the Liverpool Floral and Horticultural So- 

 ciety will receive from the wealthy and respectable inhabitants of the town 

 and neighbourhood, will be such as to induce its founders to continue their 

 exertions to render its periodical shows increasingly interesting. The 

 lovers of botany and of horticulture ought, for this purpose, to enrol their 

 names as subscribers, in order to raise a fund out of which suitable prizes 

 may be offered to individuals who exhibit the finest specimens of tulips, 

 auriculas, &c. We hope that, ere long, we shall have to announce the ac- 

 cession of along list of subscribers and contributors to the Society. Nearly 

 sixty prizes were given away. {Liverpool Albion, June 4.) 



The Lancaster Floral and Horticultural Society held their Pink and 

 Ranunculus Show on June the 27th. Six prizes were given away for pur- 

 ple-laced pinks ; six for red-laced ; six for black and white; and eight for 

 seedlings. Six prizes were given for dark, and dark-purple and red ranun- 

 culuses ; six for striped; six for spotted, mottled, or edged; and six for 

 selfs. Prizes were also given for fruits, roses, hardy shrubs, and herbaceous 

 plants, green-house plants ; for geraniums grown by ladies ; for bouquets 

 from the open gardens ; for apple trees in pots ; and for lettuces and other 

 culinary vegetables. The following are the names of the pinks : — 



Purple laced. 



1. Suwarrow. 



2. Mary Ann. 



3. Lustre. 



4. Queen of May. 



5. Bowes's Premier. 



6. Bowes's Cato. 



Black and White. 



1. Cicero. 



2. Beauty of Flora. 



3. Queen of June. 



4. Black Railer. 



5. Fancy. 



6. Black Baquet. 

 {Lancashire 



Red laced. 



1. George the Fourth. 



2. Miss Foote. 

 5. Rosaire. 



4. Princess Charlotte. 



5. Childwall Beauty. 



6. Scott's Mrs. Scott. 

 The ranunculuses were for the most part without names 



Gazette, June 30.) 



Preston Flower Show, June 27. — The display of fruit and flowers was 

 admirable but the most attractive production in the room seemed to be a 

 magnificent dish of strawberries of the Kean's seedling kind, from the 

 garden of Dr. Robinson. The following are the pinks which obtained 

 prizes : — 



Purple laced. 



1. Cato. 



2. Mary Ann. 

 5. Duchess of Man- 

 chester. 



4. Ruler. 



5. Rosamond. 



6. Suwarrow. 



The ranunculuses were without names. A variety of prizes were given 

 for roses, green-house plants, hardy plants, grapes, melons, strawberries, 

 cherries, cauliflower, lettuce, beans, artichokes, and a blue fig tree, in ripe 

 fruit. (Preston Pilot, June 50.) 



Herefordshire Horticultural Society, July 31. — The fourth show of this 

 Society presented a fine collection of plants and flowers. The stand for 

 fruits contained a superb display of gooseberries, many of them of an extra- 

 ordinary size, remarkably fine melons, grapes, nectarines, apricots, plums, 

 white and red currants, and cherries ; on a table there were also excellent 

 cucumbers, onions, and carrots. The small stand in the centre of the room 

 was richly decorated with the choicest emblems of Flora, comprising car- 

 nations, picotees, dahlias, &c. The flower of Cactus speciosissimus, and a 

 Magnolia grandiflora, from Garnons, were greatly admired, as also a iVerium 

 splendens, from the green-house of T. Lane, Esq., and several others. Upon 





Red laced. 





Black and White. 



1. 



Rosaire. 



1. 



Premier. 



2. 



Lady Wilson. 



2. 



Black Baquet. 



3. 



George Fourth . 



3. 



Seedling. 



4. 



Lady Cobbett. 



4. 



Beauty of Flora. 



5. 



Lancashire Lad. 



S. 



Incomparable. 



6. 



Seedling. 



6. 



Mere Brune. 



