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blossom, a most surprising instance of skill and industry at this season of the year. Mr. Ward's 

 was as rich in beautiful and choice exotics. Mr. D. Laidler exhibited a fine seedling auricula, 

 which he named Miss Dunn. A magnificent specimen of that curious parasitical plant, the 

 mistletoe ( 7'iscum album), was exhibited by Mr. Joseph Cooke, gardener to Miss Simpson,;Bradley 

 Hall ; and a beautiful dish of kidneybeans from the garden of Armorer Donkin, Esq., Jesmond. 

 Upon the whole, we never saw so excellent an exhibition at this season of the year. {Newcastle 

 Caurant, April 17.) 



DEVONSHIRE. 

 Exeter Florists' Society. — The First Exhibition for the season of this Society 

 took place on April 15., at Exeter. The flowers were fine specimens of the auricula and polyan- 

 thus tribes, and in numbers sufficient to show the industry bestowed on, as well as delight taken in, 

 the culture of elegant flowers of these descriptions by the members. The Exhibition, which was 

 open to the public generally, was most flatteringly attended, many members of the Devon and 

 Exeter Botanical and Horticultural Society honouring it with their presence. The prizes on this 

 occasion were five in number; and awarded, the first for auriculas, to Mr. Samuel Haycraft, for 

 a fine specimen of Wild's Lord Bridport ; the first for polyanthuses, to Mr. Charles Reynolds, Da- 

 vid's Hill. The members of the Society afterwards dined, and spent a convivial evening together. 

 Their next Exhibition will be of pinks and carnations. {Country Times, April 26.) 



AYRSHIRF. 

 The Ayrshire Green-house Society held their Competition for hyacinths, auri- 

 culas, fruits, vegetables, &c, at Kilmarnock, on April 22., when the prizes were awarded as 

 follows : — 



Flowers. Hyacinths, Single Red : 1. Herstelde Vreda, Mr. John Brown, Kilmarnock ; 2. Messrs. 

 Dykes and Gentles, Kilmarnock. Double Red: 1. Bouquet Tendre, or Waterloo, Mr. J. Brown ; 

 2. Messrs. Dykes and Gentles. Single White : 1. Grand Vainquer, Mr. John Brown ; 2. Messrs. 

 Dykes and Gentles. Double White: 1. Prins Van Waterloo, Messrs. Dykes and Gentles; 

 2. Mr. John Brown. Single Blue: 1. Vulcan, Messrs. Dykes and Gentles; 2. Mr. John Brown. 

 Double Blue : 1. Lord Wellington, Mr. John Brown ; 2. Messrs. Dykes and Gentles. Yellow : 



1. La Pure d'Or, Messrs. Dykes and Gentles ; 2. Mr. John Brown. Auriculas, Green-edged : 

 Warris's Blucher, Clough's Dolittle, Cockup's Eclipse, Mr. John Brown. Grey-edged : Camp- 

 bell's Robert Burns, Kenyon's Ringleader, and Butterworth's Lord Hood, Mr. John Brown. 

 White-edged : 1. Taylor's Incomparable, Pott's Regulator, Lee's Bright Venus, Mr. John Brown ; 



2. Messrs. Dykes and Gentles. Self, or Alpine: King of the Alps, Mr. John Brown. Polyanthus : 

 1. Manners's Lady Ann Hamilton, Pearson's Alexander, Coxe's Prince Regent, Turner's Eng- 

 land's Defiance, Stead's Telegraph, Mr. John Brown; 2. Messrs. Dykes and Gentles; 3. Mr. 

 Robert Purvis, gardener to John Smith Cunningham, Esq., Caprington. Polyanthus Narcissus : 



Bazelman Major, Soleil d'Or, and Staaten General, Mr. John Brown Fruit. Apples, preserved, 



four sorts : 1. Norfolk Paradise, Ribston Pippin, Yorkshire Greening, and Scarlet Nonpareil, Mr. 

 James Young, gardener to James Fairlie, Esq., Holms ; 2. Messrs. Dykes and Gentles ; 3. Mr. Ro- 

 bert Purvis. — Culinary Vegetables. Sea-kale: 1. Mr. Robert Purvis; 2. Mr. James Young. 

 Parsneps : 1. Mr. Robert Roger, Kilmarnock ; 2. Messrs. Dykes and Gentles ; 3. Mr. Robert 

 Purvis. 



Of extra-articles, some very fine preserved apples of crop 1828, in a good state of preservation, 

 radish, lettuce, and parsley, by Mr. Robert Purvis. Radish, Mr. James Young. Pyrus j a p6nica, 

 Messrs. Dykes and Gentles. Trillium grandiflbrum, Messrs. Fowley and Symburn, Kilmarnock. 

 A number of Auriculas, and a fine seedling Polyanthus, Mr. John Morton, Kilmarnock ; and a 

 great variety of polyanthuses, auriculas, and primroses, &c.,by Mr. John Brown. — A Subscriber. 

 Kilmarnock, April 24. 1830. 



Art. XIII. Obituary. 



Died, at his house near Glasgow, on the 14th of March, in his 76th year, 

 Robert Austin, Esq., to the great grief of all his family. He passed some 

 years in his early life at the royal botanic gardens at Kew, with the late 

 Mr. Aiton, with whose family a sincere and reciprocal friendship has ever 

 since subsisted. In the councils of the city of Glasgow, of which he was 

 many years a member, his conduct as a magistrate received the approbation 

 and esteem of his coadjutors and fellow-citizens. In his profession of a 

 nurseryman, no man was more respected — not more for his scientific 

 attainments and general knowledge, than for the suavity of manner and the 

 glee and good-humour which he contributed so largely in society. To the 

 young gardeners he was a steady friend, always ready with his advice to 

 guide them and push them forward in the world — without pride or osten- 

 tation ; in short, those only who had the advantage of his acquaintance can 

 duly appreciate his value. — W. M. London, April 25. 1830. 



