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Prizes were also given for balsams, cockscombs, stove or green-house 

 plants, hardy plants, and for the following gooseberries : — 



Red. 1. Crown Bob; 2. Printer; 3. Alcock's King Richard; 4. Rifle- 

 man ; 5. Brundit's Jolly Gardener. 



Green. 1. Greenwood's Green; 2. Surrel's Green; 5. Woodward's 

 Whitesmith ; 4. Blakeley's Green Chisel ; 5. Green Ocean. 



Yellow. 1. Golden Chain; 2. Gorton's Viper; 5. Cheshire Lass; 

 4. Lomax's Victory; 5. Robinson's Stump, 



Grapes. 1. Saint Peter; 2. Black Amber; 5. Muscat of Alexandria; 

 4. Old Sweetwater ; 5. New Sweetwater. 



Melons. 1. Ionian; 2. Green Cantaloup. (Hereford Jour., Aug. 1.) 



Mr. Hogg's Show of P inks and Carnations, at Paddington, was as brilliant 

 and various as on any former occasion. Many new sorts have been added, 

 from abroad, or from seedlings raised by Mr. Hogg. The following is a 

 select list of pinks, all of which we can affirm to be of very great beauty: — 



Aiton's George the Fourth. Hoare's Woodland Beauty. 



Bray's Invincible. Humber's Regulator. 



Barratt's Conqueror. Knight's Lady Auckland. 



Barnard's Bexley Hero. Keen's Wellington. 



Cooper's Cupid. Pottecary's Eclipse. . 



Clarke's Adonis. Steven's Waterloo. 



Cheese's Miss Cheese. Steven's Harefield Hero. 



Cheese's Champion. Pittman's High Admiral. 



Corbett's Leopold. Pittman's Regulator. 



Curzon's Somerset Hero. Pittman's Leonidas. 



Dakin's Burdett. Troup's Matchless. 



Dry's Earl of Uxbridge. Turner's George the Fourth. 



Dry's No. 2. Turner's Wiltshire Hero. 



Davey's Britannia. Westlake's Hero. 



Davey's Roi de Pourpre. Westlake's Heroine. 



Davey's Lady Shannon. Westlake's Receiver General. 



Davey's Venus. Wright's Lady Craven. 



Greenwood's Beauty. Willmer's Eclipse 



Hopkin's Scare-crow. Willmer's John Willmer. 



The new idea for breaking Seedling or Breeder Tulips, " I cannot, in 

 justice to those who have subscribed to the proposal I made, disclose 

 publicly at present. I am sorry it has subjected you to so much animadver- 

 sion ; I certainly do not hold myself altogether free from censure, by having 

 offered only hearsay evidence, instead of having waited to give direct and 

 positive proof; however, if I live till next May, I shall be prepared to do so. 

 Why should your Perthshire correspondent show ' sa muckle wrath ; ' for 

 who ever heard of a Scotchman catching the Tulipimania? Does he 

 consider this new idea a mere ignis fatuus, a will-o'-the-wisp, broached 

 merely to hoax ' the cullers of simples ? ' I hope I shall be enabled to 

 convince him as well as others, that the scheme is rational, and the success 

 certain." — T. Hogg. July 25. 



Gooseberry Show at Newark, July 26. — The prizes were adjudged by 

 Mr. T. Capain, who very kindly officiated upon the occasion. It may be 

 right to premise that the show is instituted for the sake of the gardeners 

 and cottagers of Newark and its vicinity ; and the weight of the berries is no 

 mean proof of the horticultural skill of the successful candidates. The 

 prizes consist of a copper tea-kettle for the heaviest berry of all colours, 

 and one also for the heaviest of each colour, red, yellow, green, and white ; 

 and half a pound of tea for the second heaviest berry ; although, to gratify 

 the growers, four berries of each sort are " weighed," or, to make use of a 



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