122 Prov. Jrlort, Societies: — Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire. 



YORKSHIRE. 



Hull Floral and Horticultural Society Sept. 29. The flowers and fruit 



were judged by Messrs. Lambert and Carr, Mr. Ely of Rothwell Haigh, and Mr. Hinsley of 

 Henwell. The reporter observes that a taste for horticulture is daily increasing in that neigh- 

 bourhood ; and that the emulation excited by the Society affords a strong stimulus. Among the 

 fruit, the apples are mentioned as particularly line ; and, among the flowers, the georginas. The 

 following varieties are mentioned as having gained prizes : — 



Georginas. White : 1. and 2. Naine Blanche, 3. Pra?cellentfssima, and 4. Mountain of Snow, 

 Mr. Woolley. Purple: 1. Imperiosa, Mr.Wooiley; 2. Daphne, Mr. Bell; 3. Langley's Purple, 

 and 4. Donna Maria, Mr.Wooiley. Scarlet : 1. Bohemia, Mr. Burman ; 2. Scarlet Turban, Mr. 

 Norman ; 3. Seedling, Mr. Cankrien ; 4. Striped Turban, Mr. Dobson. Yellow: 1. Squibb's Pure 

 Yellow, Mr. Cankrien ; 2. Wells's Dwarf Yellow, Mr. Dobson ; 3. Superb Yellow, Mr. Smith/son ; 

 4. Wells's Dwarf Yellow, Mr. Beecroft. Lilac : 1. Purpurea alata, Mr. D. Brown ; 2. Royal Lilac, 

 Mr.Wooiley ; 3. Queen of Roses, and 4. Royal Lilac, Mr. Percy. 



Apples. Baking: Newtown Pippin (weighing ly oz.), Mrs. Williamson of Kirkella. Eating: 

 Ribston Pippin, Mr. Jones. (Hull, Rockingham, and Lincolnshire Gazette, Oct. 1.) 



SCOTLAND. 



Caledonian Horticultural Society Aug. 31. A considerable number of 



competitors appeared, and the articles in general were of the first-rate quality. After a careful 

 examination, which occupied nearly four hours, the prizes were awarded as follows : — 



Fruit. Three sorts of Peaches (from the open wall) : New Red Magdalene, Royal George, and 

 Noblesse, Mr. James Macdonald, gardener to His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch. Two sorts of 

 Peaches (from flued walls) : Galande and Noblesse, Mr. George Shiells, gardener to the Right 

 Hon. Lord Blantyre, Erskine House. Two sorts of Nectarines (either from open wall, hot wall, 

 or peach-house) : Elruge and Scarlet, Mr. John Robertson, gardener to the Right Hon. Lord 

 Gray, Kinfauns Castle. Two sorts of Plums (not generally cultivated) : Caledonian Plum and 

 Red Diapree, Mr. James Anderson, gardener to John Bonar, Esq., of Ratho House. Three sorts of 

 Summer'Pears (Jargonelle, late Citron des Carmes, and White Beurre) : Mr. James Stuart, gardener 

 to Sir John Hope, Bart., of Pinkie. Largest Bunch of Grapes (of any variety, with the name) ; 

 Nice Grape, weighing 6 lbs., Mr. G. Shiells, gardener to the Right Hon. Lord' Blantyre, Erskine 

 House. (The Committee having experienced considerable difficulty on this article, recommended 

 that a second prize be awarded for a very large and fine bunch of the white Lombardy grape, to 

 Mr. Daniel Cunningham, gardener to Sir Archibald Campbell, Bart., Garscube.) Largest and 

 highest-flavoured bunch of any of the Frontignac Grapes, Mr. Archibald Reid, gardener to the 

 Hon. Robert Lindsay, Balcarres. Largest and highest-flavoured bunch of White Muscat of 

 Alexandria, Mr John Kinraent, gardener to Miss Spence Yeamen of Murie. Best Otaheite 

 Pine-apple, Mr. Alexander Lauder, gardener to Colonel Harvie, Castle- Seni pie. 



Culinary Vegetables. Three different kinds of Melons (Melville, Ispahan, and Ionian), Mr. 

 William Oliver, gardener to the Right Hon. the Earl of Roslin, Dysart House. 



The Committee on home-made wines reported that several kinds had been produced, of excel- 

 lent quality, and that the medal had been awarded for a white currant wine, made by Miss Rus- 

 sell, 30. Abercromby Place, Edinburgh. 



The splendid exhibition of fruit, comprising two hundred and seventy-seven dishes, was in the 

 course of the forenoon examined by a great number of persons ; and among others by several of 

 the members of the ex-royal family of France. Mademoiselle remarked, that, though it was said 

 trie sun did not shine in Scotland, there was no occasion for it, for it seemed that fruits ripened 

 there without its rays. (Scotsman, Sept. 3.) 



ABERDEENSHIRE. 

 Aberdeenshire Horticultural Society. — Nov. 2. The following were among 

 the prizes : — To David Chalmers, Esq , of Westburn, for the best twelve Apples, Ribston Pip- 

 pins, very fine. Robert Burnett, gardener to George Forbes, Esq., of Springhill, for the second 

 best twelve Apples, Downton Pippins, very fine. William Wales, gardener to Colonel Duff, for 

 the best twelve Pears, Swan's Egg, very fine. John Davidson, gardener to Lord Kennedy, Dun- 

 nottar House, for the second best twelve Pears, Autumn Bergamot, very fine. William Fraser, 

 nurseryman, Ferryhill, for the best six sorts of one-year and for the best six sorts of two- 

 year, Seedling Forest Trees. Alexander Diack, nurseryman, Mile-end, for the best Seedling 

 Apple, grown by himself. An Extra-Prize to the Rev. Dr. Morrison of Disblair, for twelve 

 Walnuts ; the tree on which they were produced was planted upwards of forty years ago. The 

 Society's large silver medal was awarded to James Wright, Westfield, for his various superior 

 vegetables. All the specimens at this competition were of very superior excellence, and the Show 

 gave great satisfaction to the visiters, who generally expressed that the Aberdeenshire Horticul- 

 tural Society had done more 'good than any other association formed within the period since it 

 was instituted. (Aberdeen Journal, Nov. 9. 1831.) 



AYRSHIRE. 

 The Ayrshire Horticultural Society held an exhibition of flowers, fruits, and 

 vegetables, for the first time since the establishment of the Society, at Ayr, on the 8th and 9th of 

 September, under the patronage of Lady Lilias Oswald of Auchincruive. From an ample account 

 given of this exhibition in the Ayr Advertiser of the 15th of September, it appears that all the 

 first gardens in the county contributed on the occasion. There were many fine exotics in pots, 

 very superior pine-apples, grapes, and figs ; tomatoes, ripened without a wall, from Craigie gar- 

 dens ; raisin des Carmes grapes, from Culzean Castle ; a beautiful specimen of Ficus elastica, 

 from Eglinton Castle ; two very large red cabbages, weighing about 20 lbs., from Blairquhan gar- 

 dens ; some fine anemone and globe flowered georginas, and the Ipomopsis elegans, a splendid- 

 North American hardy biennial, from the nurseries of Mr. James Smith and Son, Ayr ; a dish 

 of fine cinnamon pears, from a tree supposed to be upwards of two hundred years old, presented 

 by Dr. Mitchell of Ayr ; three of the largest cockscombs ever exhibited in the county ; and white 

 cucumber and meionella from Annick Lodge. In all there were between four and five hundred 

 dishes of fruit " of the principal and most esteemed varieties cultivated in Britain." 



