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For the six finest exotic plants, the medal was found due to Mr. Do- 

 nald M'Rae, gardener to George Dunbar, Esq. Rose Park, Trinity. Un- 

 der the head of exotics also, the Committee felt constrained to recommend 

 an extra-medal to be given for a superb collection transmitted by Mr. Wil- 

 liam Macnab, superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, which were 

 merely sent for exhibition. Most of these plants were of great rarity, all 

 of matchless beauty, and evincing the utmost perfection in culture, parti- 

 cularly the heaths, a class of plants, in the treatment of which, all who 

 have visited the Royal Botanic Gardens must admit Mr. Macnab to excel. 

 The Committee were likewise much pleased with the plants which were 

 sent from the garden of the Secretary at Canonmills, which were both rare 

 and well cultivated. The last part of the Society's Memoirs was accord- 

 ingly voted to Mr. Alexander Scott, gardener to Mr. Neill, in testimony of 

 his professional merit. 



No competitors appeared for the premiums offered for the best quart of 

 American Scarlet Strawberry or of the Duke of Kent Strawberry, on ac- 

 count of which much regret was expressed. {Edinb. Advert., July 10.) 



Caledonian Horticultural Society. — The Anniversary Meeting of this So- 

 ciety was held Sept. 5, in the hall of the Royal College of Physicians, 

 Daniel Ellis, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents, in the chair, when several 

 new members were admitted, and the Report of the committee of prizes 

 read, from which it appeared, that, at the competition in the Society's 

 apartments on the preceding day, prizes were awarded as follows : — 



Four sorts of peaches, from open walls, without artificial heat, three of a 

 sort, with their names, Mr. James Stewart, gardener to Sir J. Hope, Bart., 

 Pinkie House. Four sorts of peaches, from flued walls, without glass, three 

 of a sort, Mr. Jas. Scott Thomson, gardener to Viscount Strathallan, Strath- 

 allan Castle, by Crieff. Three sorts of nectarines, from flued walls, without 

 glass, three of a sort, Mr. Thomas Inglis, gardener to William Ramsay, 

 Esq., of Barnton. Six sorts of plums, six of each sort, with names, Mr. Jas. 

 Young, gardener to John Richardson, Esq., of Pitfour, by Perth. Two im- 

 perial quarts of retarded gooseberries, three sorts, I'ed, white, and yellow, 

 with their names, &c., Mr. William Oliver, gardener to the Earl of Ross- 

 lyn, Dysart House. Four sorts of summer pears, six of each sort, with their 

 names, Mr. William Oliver, Dysart House. Queen pine-apple. Mi*. John 

 Mitchell, gardener to Sir David Moncrieff, Bart., Moncrieff House. Pine- 

 apple of any other variety, Mr. Walter Henderson, gardener to W. F. 

 Campbell, Esq., Woodhall. Cantaloup Melon, Mr. James Anderson, gar- 

 dener to John Bonar, Esq., Ratho House. Highest-flavoured green-fleshed 

 melon, Mr. John Mitchell, gardener, Moncrieff House. Three bunches of 

 Frontignac grapes, three different sorts, Mr. James Simpson, gardener to 

 Capt. Wemyss, M. P., Wemyss Castle. Two finest and heaviest bunches 

 of black Hamburgh grapes, Mr. John Kinmount, gardener to Miss Yeoman 

 of Murie, by Errol. Best grapes, of three different sorts, and two bunches 

 of each, with names, Mr. James Goodall, gardener to the Marquess of Lo- 

 thian, Newbattle. Two sorts of figs, three of each, Mr. William Pearson, 

 gardener to Dowager Countess of Hopetoun, Ormistoun Hall. Six kinds 

 of summer apples, six of each kind, Mr. David Sinclair, gardener to James 

 Donaldson, Esq., Broughton Hall. Six double or semi-double georginas,from 

 seed saved in 1827 or 1828, Messrs. Dickson and Co., nurserymen, Leith 

 Walk. An extra-medal was awarded for the greatest variety of fruits, of 

 good quality, to Mr. Macnaughton, gardener to John Wauchope, Esq., 

 Edmonstone. Extra-medals were awarded to Messrs. William Henderson, 

 gardener to Sir A. Muir Mackenzie, Bart., Delvin, and William Todd, gar- 

 dener to the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Abbeyhill, for new seedling China roses. 

 For the best home-made goosebeny wine, to Mr. Lewis Pederaner, Haly- 

 burton House, Cupar-Angus. An extra-medal for elder-flower wine, of 

 excellent quality, to Mrs. Campbell, of Orrasary, Argyleshire. 



