236 Provincial Societies. 



At Alnwick a meeting of this Society is to be held in September. {New- 

 castle Courier, July 6.) 



The Anniversary Meeting of this Society was held at Newcastle on August 

 11th, when the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Durham was unanimously 

 chosen patron of the Society for the county of Durham, vice the late Bishop 

 of Durham, deceased, and Matthew Bell, Esq. M. P., was elected president 

 for the ensuing year. The prize medals were then delivered to the suc- 

 cessful competitors during the past year ; and afterwards the members and 

 visitors sat down to a sumptuous dinner. The table was handsomely deco- 

 rated with flowers, and the dessert was superb, consisting of pines, melons, 

 grapes, peaches, and all the fruits of the season, in profusion, from the gar- 

 dens of gentlemen belonging to the Society. {Newcastle Cour., Aug. 18.) 



A Meeting of the Botanical and Horticultural Society was held at New- 

 castle on September 7th, when the Society's silver medals were awarded to 

 different gardeners. The exhibition of fruits, consisting of seventy dishes, 

 was extremely beautiful, and all of very superior quality; the flowers, 

 especially the dahlias, which excited universal admiration, were also very 

 fine. The exhibition, after the prizes had been determined, was honoured 

 by the presence of a very large concourse of ladies and gentlemen of the 

 first respectability. {Newcastle Courier, Sept. 1 5.) 



Preston Horticultural Society. — The flower show on August 1st was, we 

 are most happy to say, as fully and as fashionably attended as any we have 

 before witnessed. The preceding meetings for the season have in every 

 instance, we believe, taken place on days of incessant rain ; but on this 

 occasion the weather was fortunately most propitious, and the consequence 

 was a very considerable assemblage of the neighbouring gentry, in addition 

 to the very many respectable families residing in the town, who give their 

 patronage and support to this most useful Society. As the meeting of 

 Wednesday will probably be the last for the year, it gave us much pleasure 

 to see the labours of the Committee winding up with- so much satisfaction 

 both to themselves and to the public. The display of carnations was 

 beautiful, whilst of green-house and other plants there was exhibited an 

 admirable collection, amongst which by far the most conspicuous was a mag- 

 nificent Campanula pyramidalis, from the garden of J. Swainson, Esq., and 

 measuring no less than seven feet two inches in height from the surface of 

 the earth. There was fruit also in abundance, and of the very finest qua- 

 lity. The most attractive object in this department was the remarkably fine 

 pine-apple (weighing upwards of six pounds) sent from the garden of Le 

 Gendre N. Starkie, Esq. M. P., at Huntroyd, and raised by Mr. Morrell, 

 that gentleman's gardener. Prizes were given for the following carnations 

 and hardy plants : — 



Carnations. Scarlet Bizards: Rising Sun, Triumphant, Lord Bagot, 

 Achilles, Optimus Seedling, Eclipse Seedling. Crimson Bizards : Rainbow, 

 King Alfred, Duke of Kent, Duke of Devonshire, Summit of Perfection, 

 Hero of the Nile Seedling. Purple Flakes: Princess Charlotte, Major Cart- 

 wright, La Belle Alliance, Bellerophon Seedling, Lord Byron. Scarlet 

 Flakes: Salamander, Atlas Seedling, Mount Vesuvius Seedling, Mount 

 Etna Seedling, Hobhouse. Rose Flakes : Lady Hood, Duchess of Devon- 

 shire, Lord Essex, Parnassus Seedling, Earl Moira. 



Picotees. Purple: Cleopatra, Emma, Lady Milton, Lady Chatham, 

 Bob's Nought. Scarlet: Magnificent, Will Stukely, Childwall Beauty, 

 Phyllis, Baldwin's Seedling. 



Plants. Green-house: Pancratium mexicanum, Crassula coccinea, Tecbma 

 grandiflora, jElichrysum proliferum, Clethra arborea. Hardy: Magnolia 

 grandiflora ferruginea, Campanula pyramidalis, Rosa indica ochroleuca, 

 Oenothera macrocarpon, Potentilla hirta, Spigelk marilandica, .Erica vul- 

 garis alba. 



