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SCOTLAND. 



• Edinburgh Green Market. — June 26. New potatoes os. to os. Gd., and 

 green peas is. 6d. to 2s. a peck ; unripe gooseberries 3d. to 4a!., and straw- 

 berries Is. to Is.Sd. the imperial quart; artichokes \^d. to 3d., and cau- 

 liflowers 2d. to 4d. a head; common white turnips 5d. to 4f/., and yellow 

 turnips 4d. to 5d.^a dozen ; carrots 4d, a dozen ; best cabbagqs Id. each. 



Juli/ 10. Peaches and nectarines are selling at from 4s] to us. per dozen; 

 grapes, 2s. 6d. to Ss., and cherries, 1^. 6d. to 2s. a lb. ; ^strawberries, 6d. to 

 8d.; Chile ditto, from 8c?. to 10c?.; currants, 10c?. to 1^. ; and gooseberries, 

 3d. to 4c?. the imperial quart; melons, 2s., and pine-apples, 6s. to 75. per lb.; 

 new potatoes, Is. to is. 6d.; and green peas, Is. a peck. (^Scotsman.) 



CaledoniaJi Horticultural Society. Promenade atthe Experimental Gar- 

 den. — 0\\ July 2, the Meeting of the Caledonian Horticultural Society for 

 the adjudication of prizes for the best seedling carnations, pinks, and roses, 

 raised from seeds saved in Scotland within the preceding three years, was 

 held, for the first time, in their Experimental Garden at Inverleith. In 

 addition to the subjects exhibited for competition, a splendid collection of 

 exotic plants, chiefly from the hot-houses and green-houses of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, of Professor Dunbar and of Mi". Neill, was tastefully 

 arranged on stages placed under a temporary awning. Ykitors were ad- 

 mitted by tickets, which had been liberally distributed, and the garden was 

 crowded with an assemblage of ladies and gentlemen. The countenances 

 of all indicated a kindred sympathy with the verdant freshness and beauty 

 of the surrounding scenery. The site of this garden, and the plan on which 

 it is laid out (Vol. I. p. 90.), are well adapted to bring into view the rich 

 combination of magnificent and picturesque objects, both natural and arti- 

 ficial, which environ it on every side. Tiiough easily ,&ccessible in every 

 part, and exhibiting in many a commanding extent of view, yet the varying 

 heights of the ground, and the judicious distribution of belts of planting 

 and shrubby borders over its whole area, lend to it an intricacy and seclu- 

 sion which add much to its fitness as a place of public promenade. Nothing, 

 accordingly, could be more striking or beautiful than to see the figures of 

 so many elegantly dressed females (for the ladies greatly prevailed as to 

 number), now starting into view and now receding from it, over all parts of 

 the garden ; to meet them at one time on the great central walk, marching, 

 as it were, with measured step in a sort of close column, and soon again to 

 behold them dispersed in different quarters, and promenading in all the 

 ease and freedom of unconstrained movement. In exhibitions of this sort, 

 it is most desirable that the company should move slowly but continually 

 forward, so as to afford every one, in turn, an opportunity of seeing the 

 objects to be viewed. {Edinburgh Advertiser, July 7.) 



The Ayrshire Horticultural Society met for competition on June 2.3., in 

 Ayr, when, after a careful inspection by the judges, the prizes were awarded 

 as follows, viz. : — 



Plants. Hardy Herbaceous^ (twenty-one distinct varieties) : 1. Messrs. 

 Smith and Son ; 2. Mr. Faulds. Green-house (thirteen distinct varieties) : 

 Messrs. Smith and Son. — Floivers. The largest and best collection of 

 Flowers (distinct varieties) : 1. Messrs. Smith and Son ; 2. Mr. Rose, gar- 

 dener, Bellisle, Ranunculuses. Edged (five distinct varieties) i 1 . Mr. Faulds, 

 gardener, Fairfield ; 2. Mr. Hunter, florist, Prestwick ; 3. Mr. Brown, gar- 

 dener to D. Limond, Esq., of Dalblair. Striped (five distinct varieties) : 

 1. Mr. Faulds ; 2. Mr. Hunter; 3. Mr. Hill, gardener to Mrs. M'Taggart, 

 Ayr; 4. Mr. Brown. Mottled: 1. Mr. Hunter; 2. Mr. Faulds. Self's: 

 1. Mr. Faulds; 2. Mr. Hunter; 3. Mr. Brown; 4. Mr. Hill. Anemones 

 (seven distinct varieties) : Mr. Hunter. Scotch Roses (thirteen distinct 

 varieties): i. Messrs. Smith and Son, nurserymen, Ayr and Monkwood 



