514 Provincial Horticultural Societies : — Sussex, Essex, 



more especially a system of abattoirs, as in Paris. It is surely disgraceful 

 that such a place as Smithfield, and the scenes to which it gives rise on 

 market days, should be continued in the centre of the most wealthy and 

 populous city in Europe. But nothing on earth is so difficult to move as 

 John Bull; and when he is baited into motion, it is more by the influence 

 of main force, than by the machinery of general system or principle. One 

 person or party takes up the idea of a cemetery, another that of a market ; 

 and, after years of perseverance in beating down prejudices and opposing 

 interests, one of the parties becomes fatigued, and the objects are obtained 

 or lost as it may happen. We repeat (see Vol. V. p. 686.) that, for the 

 general improvement of London, and the direction of new streets and public 

 buildings, a commission should be formed, whose proceedings ought to be 

 open, like those of the House of Commons, and their plans or suggestions 

 reported in the newspapers. They would thus be subjected to the test of 

 public criticism, and the salutary influence of enlightened opinion, before 

 being executed. Hitherto, as has been just observed, improvements have 

 gone on at random, or subject to be thwarted by private interest, and the 

 wonder is that things are not much worse than they are. We do not re- 

 collect a more vexatious instance of this than the abrupt termination of 

 Regent Street, at St. James's Park, in a flight of steps, instead of the 

 continuation of the carriage road to the front of the Treasury ; and all 

 this for the insignificant purpose of gratifying the builders of one or two 

 new houses, at the perpetual inconvenience of the public. Even the steps 

 would not have been permitted, but for a counter individual influence, an 

 order of the king. But what satisfaction is there in that V The one is as 

 much an exertion of individual influence as the other, and it might have 

 happened to be on the wrong side. The political circumstances of a 

 people liable to such outrages on their comforts and convenience, and on 

 the beauty of their metropolis, are bad, and require reformation no less 

 than their streets and market-places. But there is a time for every thing ; 

 and it is to be hoped we shall take a hint from France in other things be- 

 sides abattoirs and cemeteries. — Cond. 



Art. X. Provincial Horticultural Societies. 



Name and Address of Secretary not before given : — 

 Ipswich Htrtijultural Society, William Woollard, Honorary Secretary; May 16. 1830. 



SUSSEX. 



The Chichester Horticultural Society. — This Society held its Spring Meeting 

 on April 15., when prizes were awarded as follows : — 



Flowers. Auriculas : 1. Mr. Harrison, jun., gardener to Lord Egremont ; 2. and 3. Mr. Had- 

 don and the Rev. Mr. Watkins, equal. Azaleas : Pink, Mr. Collyer, gardener to E. Woods, Esq., 

 Shopwyke ; white, Mr. Hammond, gardener to Messrs. Humphrey. Camellia Sasanqua-rbsea, 

 Mr. Groundsell, gardener to J. J. Gruggen, Esq. Cactus specibsa and speciosissima and Bouquet 

 of Flowers, Mr. Collyer. Box of Flowers, Mr. Sims, gardener to W. Leeves, Esq. Geranium 

 Lord Combermere. Forced Rose, Mr. Collyer. Ferbena Melindres, and iJrinus /ychnidea, 

 Mr. Hammond. Amaryllises, Mr. Goddard, gardener to W. Rhoades, Esq. — Fruit. Pears, 

 Mr. Holding. Strawberries: 1. Mr. Collyer; 2. Mr. Harrison. — Culinary Vegetables. Cucum- 

 bers : 1. Mr. Collyer ; 2. Mr. Gorsuch, gardener to the Bishop of Chichester, and 3. Mr. Cake- 

 bread, gardener to Messrs. Henty, equal; 4. Mr. Hammond. Mushrooms: 1. Mr. Gorsuch; 

 2. Mr. Coates, gardener to the Kev. Geo. Porcher. Sea-kale : 1. Mr. Holding ; 2. Mr. Gorsuch. 

 Rhubarb, Mr. Gorsuch. Potatoes : 1. Mr. Collyer ; 2. and 3. Mr. Cakebread and Mr. Groundsell, 

 equal. French Beans : 1 . and 2. Mr. Coates and Mr. Harrison, equal. Lettuce, Mr. Collyer. 

 {Portsmouth Herald, April 18.) 



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The Chelmsford and Essex Floral and Horticultural Society. — This Society 

 held its First Exhibition this year on April 20., which was respectably and numerously 

 attended. 



Flowers. Auriculas : 1. Smith's Waterloo, Birche's Amethyst, and Taylor's Glory, Mr. Charles 

 Harris; 2. Stretch's Alexander, Butterworth's Lord Hood, and Townshend's Lady Duncan, 

 Mr. Jonathan Harris ; 3. Taylor's Ploughboy, Chilcott's Brilliant, and Taylor's Glory, Mr. G. 

 Wicks. Messrs. Pearson, Bird, and Howard also showed some good specimens. — Fruit. Apples: 

 1. Norfolk Biffin, Ross's Nonpareil, and Royal Nonpareil, John Disney, Esq. ; 2. Ribston Pip- 

 pin, and Golden Rennet, Mr. Charles Harris. 



