112 . Provincial Societies. 



the whole, the show both of fruits and flowers was excellent, and there was 

 a full and highly respectable attendance of company. The following flowers 

 obtained premiums : — 



Carnations. 

 Scarlet Bizarres. 2. Hatfield's Litchfield Purple Flakes. 



1. Plunnner's Lord Man- Beauty. 1. Frip's Zamana. 



ners. 3. Dawson's Duchess of 2. Fletcher's Lord An- 



2. Name unknown. Devonshire. son. 



3. Gen. Picton. Scarlet Flakes. s - Hume's Miss Parcart. 



Crimson Bizarres. 1 . Barr's Waterloo. Rose Flakes. 



1. Yeomanson's George 2. Sir Francis Burdett. 1. Webb's Lady Ducie. 

 Rex Fourth. 3. Lacey's Queen. 



PlCOTEES. 



Purple. Bed. Yellow. 



1. Glover's Beef Axe. 1. Seedling, Sir J. G. 1. Louis dix-huit. 



2. La Cleopatra. Cotterell. 



Prizes were also given for cockscombs, green-house plants, dahlias, hardy 

 plants, grapes, melons, apricots, nectarines, gooseberries, onions, cucumbers, 

 and carrots. (Hereford Journal, Aug. 1.) 



The Windsor Florists' Society held their usual Flower and Gooseberry 

 Shows, which were fully attended, both by local and stranger friends and 

 amateurs. The taste for gardening is much on the increase here, and it is 

 in contemplation to organise a Windsor Horticultural Society. We regret 

 we have not room to print the prospectus which has been issued by 

 Mr. Lovegrove and other leading men of the present Florists' Society. 



The Uxbridge Florists' Society held their Show of Pinks on the 27th of 

 June. It was well attended, and a number of prizes given away. 



Boss Horticultural Society, July 25. — The grand stand contained 344 

 feet of stage room most tastefully filled with a miscellaneous assortment from 

 the house and open garden, and the whole formed an extraordinary dis- 

 play of the most varied colours and foliage. The stage for prize flowers 

 was covered with the choicest carnations, picotees, and dahlias. The bal- 

 sams and cockscombs were fine, and added much to the general effect. 

 The grapes produced by Mr. Hilton, Colonel Money's gardener, exceeded 

 any previously shown. This meeting was attended by 240 subscribers and 

 their friends, and in the evening by about 150 other persons, so that 

 this interesting show was witnessed by at least 400 persons. The sale of 

 specimens not removed produced 3l. 1 5s. 6d. The number of specimens 

 ticketed and entered in the Society's book amounted to 799. The carna- 

 tions which obtained prizes were asunder: — 



Scarlet Bizarres. 1. Wood's Commander ; 2. Smalley's Foxhunter; 



3. Lord Byron ; 4. Prince William Henry ; 5. Turner's John Bull. 

 Crimson Bizarres. 1 . Pyke's Eminent ; 2. Marquis of Wellesley ; 



3. Cartwright's Rainbow ; 4. Cope's Suwarrow ; 5. Beauty of Bailey. 



Scarlet Flakes. 1. Queen of the Universe ; 2. Sir John Boughey ; 

 3. Earl Moira ; 4. Madam Mara ; 5. Barr's Waterloo. 



Purple Flakes. 1 . Butt's Rodney ; 2. Pope's Defiance ; 3. Brooke's 

 Bristolian ; 4. Bates's Wellington ; 5. Dixon's Fame. 



Rose Flakes. 1. Webb's Lady Ducie; 2. Redfern's Miss Ward; 



3. Staffordshire Lass ; 4. Metcalf's Miss Landers; 5. Barr's Rose Flake. 

 Purple Picotees. 1. Lee's Cleopatra; 2. Wollard's Queen; 3. Beauty 



of Bailey ; 4. Salamander ; 5. Lady Sandwich. 



Bed Picotees. 1 . La Beaute - Parfaite ; 2. Will Stukely ; 3. Hogg's Ellen ; 



4. Pearson's Maria ; 5. Duchess of Beaufort. 



Dark double Dahlias. 1. George the Fourth ; 2. Superbissima ; 3. Su- 

 perba ; 4. Sans Rival. 



Light double Dahlias. 1 . Camellia-flora ; 2. Quilled Lilac. 



