238 Provincial Societies. 



Gooseberiies. Red: Top Sawyer, 15 dwts. 23§grs. ; Crown Bob, 15 dwts. 

 6igrs. Yellow: Golden Chain, 15 dwts. 6\ grs. ; Viper, lOdwts. 8 grs. 

 Green: Ocean, 14 dwts. 9 grs. ; Laurel, 10 dwts. lj grs. White: Queen 

 Anne, 16 dwts. 10 grs.; Huntingdonshire Lass, 15 dwts. 6 grs. j Whitesmith, 

 12 dwts. 17 grs. 



For cucumbers, currants, and Hamburgh heart cherries, prizes were also 

 given. 



The Loyal Northampton Horticultural Society held their first Anniversary 

 Meeting at Northampton on July 26th, Sir Robert Henry Gunning, Bart., 

 perpetual president, in the chair ; the secretary, Mr. J. P. M. Chambers. 

 Prizes were given for carnations, picotees, cloves, gooseberries, currants, and 

 cucumbers. 



The Bizards of the first class were : Plummer's Lord Moira, Thompson's 

 George the Fourth, Mason's Lord Compton, Smalley's Foxhunter, Yeoman- 

 son's Triumphant. 



The Picotees of the first class were : Wood's Harmony, Mason's Neat 

 and Clean, Spratt's Earl of Effingham, Cornfield's Lady Miller, Spratt's Earl 

 of Effingham, Maberly No More Seedling. 



The Red Gooseberries of the first class were : Rough Robin, 1 6 dwts. 

 19 grs. ; Sportsman, 16 a dwts. 9 grs. ; Roaring Lion, 14 dwts. 18 grs. ; Crown 

 Bob, 14 dwts. 16 grs. 



The Annual Florists' Feast of Northampton was held August 6th, and 

 prizes were adjudged for the following flowers : — 



Carnations. Scarlet Bizards : CartwrightV British Hero, Smalley's Fox- 

 hunter, Glover's Stourbridge Regulator, Yeomanson's Triumphant, Thomp- 

 son's Cartwright. Crimson Bizards : Lord Denbigh, Thompson's Sir John 

 Miller, Messenger's Duke of Wellington, North's King Agrippa, Mason's 

 George the Fourth. Scarlet Flakes: Blucher, Madam Mara. Purple 

 Flakes : Messenger's Alderman Brown, Duchess of Manchester. Rose 

 Flakes: Duchess of Devonshire. 



Picotees. Martin's Incomparable, Earl of Effingham, Mrs. H. Gunning, 

 Bailey's Beauty. 



Seedlings. Scarlet Bizard : Commander in Chief. Crimson Bizard : Van 

 Trump. Scarlet Flake : Isabella. Purple Flake : Mr. Braham. Rose 

 Flake: Roaring Lion. Picotee : Mr. Denman. 



Gooseberries. The heaviest gooseberry was the Crown Bob, which weighed 

 15 dwts. 15 grs. 



Mr. Cornfield is a fancy florist and dealer in florist's flowers at Nor- 

 thampton. Having heard much of him for several years past, and being 

 the other day at Northampton on business, I called on Mr. Cornfield, and, 

 on my first entrance into his garden, was much struck with the novel and 

 tasteful manner which he has in displaying to the best advantage his fine 

 collection of carnations, picotees, pinks, and auriculas, the whole in per- 

 fect health and vigour, and the layers of the carnations finely rooted. I 

 requested him to send you some particulars of his mode of treating 

 his plants, as his flowers are allowed to be remarkably fine, and he 

 has promised to comply with my request. He also showed me the 

 beautiful new stage for showing the prize flowers at the annual show of 

 flowers and fruits at Northampton ; it is placed in the superb Assembly 

 Rooms at the George Inn, and is a beautiful model for the imitation of 

 other florists' societies to adopt for the exhibition of their flowers. The 

 stage, with all its appendages and emblematical figures of floriculture and 

 horticulture, was made under the immediate direction of Mr. Cornfield. I 

 have requested him to send you a description of it, as it is certainly the 

 most complete thing of the kind in England, and does much credit to the 

 taste of one to whom the sons and daughters of Flora are much indebted, 

 for many improvements in the art of showing the beauties of nature to the 



