604- Retrospective Criticism. 



Mr. M'Mahon. Black, not Muscat or Frontignac, the best-flavoured : 1. 

 Mr. Winton, gardener to T. R. Needham, Esq. ; 2. Mr. Archbold, gardener 

 to. Michael Sweetman, Esq. White, not Muscat or Frontignac, the best- 

 flavoured: 1. Mr. Dowries, gardener to Thomas Crosthwait, Esq.; 2. Mr. 

 Derm. Peaches. Six Double Montaigne : 1. Mr. Wilkie, gardener to W. 

 Gregory, Esq. ; 2. Hon. and Rev. W. Plunkett. Six finest-flavoured No- 

 blesse: 1. Mr. Hyland, gardener to Thomas Ellis, Esq.; 2. Mr. Hendrick, 

 gardener to W. Gibbons, Esq. Six finest-flavoured, not Montagne or 

 Noblesse : 1. Mr. Hetherington, gardener to the Right Hon. the Earl of 

 Charlemont. Nectarines, six finest-flavoured of any variety: 1. and 2. 

 disqualified. Apricots, six finest-flavoured: 1. A. B. Crofton, Esq., Roe- 

 buck Castle ; 2. Mr. Grant. Melons. Largest of any variety, 7 lbs. 2 oz., 

 Mr. Nevin. Finest-flavoured Scarlet Rock: 1. Mr. Fox, gardener to John 

 Sweetman, Esq. ; 2. premium withheld. Finest-flavoured, any other variety : 

 1. Mr. Henly ; 2. Mr. Nevin. Plums (six), Green Gage : 1 and2. disqualified. 

 Gooseberries (the heaviest twenty-four) : 1 . Mr. Dumphy, gardener to A. 

 Cooper, Esq. ; 2. Mr. Hessian. Twenty-four finest-flavoured, Mr. M'Mahon. 

 Currants (the weightiest twenty-four bunches of white) : 1. Mr. Hethering- 

 ton; 2. Mr. Fox. Figs (six finest-flavoured of any variety) : Land 2. dis- 

 qualified. 



Amongst the plants exhibited, the following were reckoned the finest 

 specimens : — 



Sent from the college botanic gardens by T. Mackay, Esq., M.R.LA. 

 and A.L.S., as ornamental exotics : — Gesneria bulbosa, Gloxinia hirsuta, 

 Besleria pulchella, Bignonia grandifolia, Sinningia villosa, and velutina, 

 Boronz'a denticulata, Pimelea glauca ; also some fine specimens of jBrica 

 ILweridua, gemmifldra,j'asminifldra, and tricolor, and several beautiful exo- 

 tics not now so rare. 



Sent by Mr. Keeffe, nurseryman : — Fuchsia microphylla and virgata, 

 Hakea linearis, 5elago fascicularis, Gloxinia caulescens and alba, Boronia 

 denticulata, and some beautiful specimens of heaths and pelargoniums. 



Sent by Mr. Nevin, chief secretary's gardener : — Erythrina Crista galli, 

 first prize, as best-blown exotic, and grown from a cutting of this year ; 

 Phamkceum incanum, Fuchsia virgata, *Salvia pseiido-coccinea, Tristania 

 rcereifolia, .Erica longipedunculata, Lobelia corymbosa, Cactus speciosa, with 

 flowers and ripe fruit, Dracce'na australis, Calceolaria rugosa, Bignonia 

 radicans. 



Sent by Mr. Toole : — Calceolaria arachnoidea, jolantaginifolia, thyrsifolia, 

 and integrifolia ; Isotoma axillaris, Andromeda iuxifolia, Fuchsia conica and 

 virgata, and a fine collection of Ericas. Phlox philadelphica, penduliflora, 

 corymbosa, americana nova, Wheel erii, and capitata. (^Saunders's Neius- 

 Letter, Aug. 14.) 



Large Strawberry. — A Wilmot's Superb strawberry was gathered at 

 Belvoir Park, near Belfast, in the first week of July, which measured 6 in. 

 in circumference, and weighed a fidl ounce. — J. F. Aug. 1830. 



Art. IV. Retrospective Criticism. 



Management of the Horticultural Society. — Sir, The facility with which 

 you receive contradictions to your opinions, and the readiness with which 

 you give them to the judgment of the public, encourage me to attack some 

 of the doctrines you have disseminated in your Gardener's Magazine for 

 April, 1830. And first, as to that which you call " Mr. London's evi- 

 dence," on the general management of the Horticultural Society, and the 

 plan of the garden. You say (p. 248.), " Not a plant, cutting, or seed ought 

 to be given away direct from the garden, or in consequence of written ap- 



