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North British Professional Gardeners* Society Edinburgh, April 11.— 

 Prizes were awarded to the following individuals : — For the best mush- 

 rooms, to Mr. James Goodall, gardener to the Marquess of Lothian, New- 

 battle Abbey; for the best six auriculas, to Mr. John Young, gardener, 

 Burntsfield; for the second best, to Mr. Daniel Sinclair, gardener, Brough- 

 ton Hall; for the best six polyanthuses, to Mr. John Young; for the 

 second best, to Mr. William Milne, gardener, Drum ; for the best three 

 double wallflowers, to Mr. John Young ; for the second best, to Mr. 

 Daniel Sinclair, Broughton Hall ; for the best double hyacinths, to Mr. 

 William Milne, gardener, Drum; for the second best, to Mr. Daniel Sinclair. 

 {Scotsman.) 



Green-Market, Edinburgh, April 14. — The public green-market is now 

 beginning to have an attractive appearance. A number of aromatic plants 

 and spring flowers are displayed in the different booths. Radishes and 

 young onions, grown in the open air, were sold on the 12th, for the first 

 time this season. The radishes were as usual, made up in bunches, and 

 sold at 3d. a dozen. Besides the usual potherbs, there were salad, spinach, 

 garden and water cresses, green mint, rhubarb, asparagus, sea-kale, broccoli, 

 and early cabbages raised in frames ! (Ibid.) 



April 28. — The markets have been much better supplied with vegetables 

 during the week, than could have been expected from the state of the 

 weather. Radishes, young onions, sea-kale, and asparagus are now very 

 plenty. The best asparagus is got for 2s. 6d. a hundred in the market for 

 the southern district, and for 3s. a hundred in the city market. A very 

 good dish of sea-kale is got for i>d. and Is. (Ibid.) 



May 16. — Two small baskets of strawberries, ripened in the open air 

 but shielded by a glass frame, have already appeared in the green-market ; 

 the one on the 1st, and the other on the 6th instant. They were large, 

 fully ripe, and excellent in flavour. (Ibid.) 



The Pollockshaws Florists' Club held their annual competition on 

 May 4th. Mr. Dugald Campbell, gardener to Sir John Maxwell, Bart, of 

 Pollock, brought forward two beautiful auriculas ; one, the Wild Glory, 

 with five pips, each measuring six inches in circumference ; the other a very 

 fine seedling, with twenty-seven pips all in bloom. The judges declared 

 them to be by far the finest flowers of the sort ever seen in the west 

 country. (Ibid.) 



The Aberdeenshire Horticultural Society held their first spring meeting 

 on May 1 . when medals were awarded — 



For the three best Stage Auriculas, to William Chalmers, gardener to P. 

 Cheyne, Esq. Lochhead ; 



For the three best Seedling Auriculas, to Mr. Alex. Diack, Mile-end ; 



For the three best Seedling Polyanthuses, to Captain Clyne, Gilcomston ; 



For Mushrooms, raised in the open ground, to Mr. Smith, Nurseryman ; 



For the best twenty-Jive heads of Asparagus, to Mr. John Smart, gardener 

 to Mrs. Young, at Glassel ; 



For the three best -Broccoli, to Mr. David Taylor, gardener to William 

 Annand, Esq. Belmont ; 



For the best brace of Cucumbers, to Mr. William Wales, gardener to Col. 

 Duff of Fetteresso ; 



For the six best Preserved Apples, to Mr. William Smart, gardener, Pol- 

 gownie Lodge; 



For Champagne, made from Gooseberries, to Mrs. Young of Glassel; 



For three bunches of Grapes, the extra medal to Robert Davidson, Esq. 

 Elmfield. 



The second best Specimens of the above Articles were produced by — 

 William Barron gardener, at Blackhall, stage auriculas ; Alexander Diack, 



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