622 Prov. Hort. Societies : — Bet^kshire^ Gloucestershire. 



Cottagers' Prizes. Fruit, Rickwood, Timworth, Vegetables, Jermyn, 

 Timworth. Best managed cottage-gardens : Jermyn, Timworth ; and Spink, 

 Hengrave. {Bury and Norwich Post, July 22.) 



Bekkshire. 



Windsor Horticultural Society. — At the Meeting of July 22., prizes were 

 awarded to the following gentlemen : — 



Carnations. 1. Mr. Gould, Windsor ; 2. Mr. Willmar, Sunbury ; 5. Mr. 

 Willmar, jun., Sunbury ; 4. Mr. Bates, Oxford ; 5. Mr. Beedon, Hillingdon ; 

 6. Mr. Smith, London. — Melons. (30 shown) : 1. Mr. Ingram, Frogmore ; 

 2. Mr. Austin, Burnham : 3. Mr. Ingram, Frogmore ; 4. Mr. Anderson, Dit- 

 ton ; 5. Mr. Ingram, Frogmore ; 6. Mr. Anderson, Ditton ; 7. Mr. Stevens, 

 Harefield ; 8. Mr. Cooper, Bray. — Gooseberries. 1 . Mr. Brown, Hammer- 

 smith j 2. Mr. Gould, Windsor ; 5. Mr. Turner, Eton; 4. Mr. Stevens, Hare- 

 field ; 5. Mr. Bowyer, Bray. — Some fine peaches and grapes were exhi- 

 bited, but these fruits not being entered for a prize, none was awarded. 



Miscellaneous Class. — Four prizes were awarded to Mr. Ingram for 

 georgirias, Cactus specioslssima, hollyhocks, and a blue hydrangea. — J. P. B, 

 July 24. 1829. 



Gloucestershiee. 



The Bristol Horticultural Society. — The Second Exhibition of this So- 

 ciety was held on August 4., which abundantly realised the warmest hopes 

 that the friends of that institution had conceived. The suite of Assembly 

 Rooms were opened on this occasion ; the front and central rooms were 

 fully occupied by a magnificent display of ornameJital plants and flowers, 

 tastefully arranged on an elevated platform, in the centre of the front room, 

 and on tables extending completely round that apartment, and in two pyra- 

 midal groups in the middle room. 



. Amongst others, for which no prizes were awarded, were conspicuous — 

 a very fine lemon tree, belonging to Mr. Hurle ; a beautiful Hydrangea hor- 

 tensis, sent by Miss Shepherd of Compton ; a fine plant of Yucca filamen- 

 tosa, in full bloom, belonging to Mr. Maule ; a Maurandya Barclaya?2«, pro- 

 mising soon to blossom, belonging to A. Hilhouse, Esq., accompanied with 

 an engraving of the flower ; a fine Theophrasta longifolia, a Cycas revo- 

 Jiita, and a verj^ large Coffea arabica, nearly 10 ft. high, belonging to the Rev, 

 Mr. Pring of Hambrook ; a beautiful specimen of Miisa paradisiaca, and a 

 large scarlet seedling geranium belonging to Colonel Greeme. We also 

 observed, belonging to Mrs. March Phillips, a Cjcas revoluta, a Phce'nix 

 dactylifera, two beautiful plants of Hydrangea horl^nsis, and some flowers 

 of the large Agave americana, now blooming, which is open to the inspec- 

 tion of the curious under the care of Mr. Dunn, her gardener, at Brisling- 

 ton ; a very vigorous young Clethra arborea, in full bloom, the owner of 

 which we could not ascertain ; some fine myrtles ; a Yucca acuminata, and 

 several others, belonging to Gabriel Goldney, Esq.; a beautiful plant of 

 Thunb^rgia alata, in full bloom, belonging to John Scandrett Hartford, Esq. 

 of Blaize Castle ; a handsome Cactus Opuntia in blossom, from Mrs. Acland 

 of Clifton ; a beautiful plant of Lobeh'a JErinus, sent by Mrs. John Hurle of 

 Brislington ; superb flowers of Bignonia radicans major, and magnificent 

 blossoms of Magnolia grandiflora, from Miss Bright of Ham Green, Mr. 

 J. Young of Taunton exhibited a box containing a number of beautiful 

 georginas ; two in particular, which he has named corymbosa and globosa, 

 excited marked attention; a large pale yellow one, and a deep purple, 

 also called forth much admiration. We noticed some beautiful georginas 

 from Mr. Wheeler of Warminster ; also plants of Roella ciliata, Matri- 

 caria grandiflora, and many others ; and fine trees of the Hawthornden 

 apple and Keswick codlin, loaded with fruit, belonging to Mr.Maule. 



