634 Provincial Hort. Societies: — Sieffblk, Wilts, 



display. The broccoli, kidneybeans, cucumbers, asparagus, sea-kale, 

 rhubarb, and cabbages, were the most remarkable for their extraordinary 

 growth, and excited much attention. (Taunton Courier, May 9.) 



June 15. The floral display was exceedingly attractive and beautiful, 

 whilst, the advanced state of the season allowing the introduction of out- 

 door fruits and vegetables, they were exhibited in the most tempting 

 variety. The company present was of the most fashionable description, 

 and the attendance of young and elegant females very numerous. We 

 regret to hear that on this occasion several cases of pilfering from the 

 rarest plants were observed. Due care, we understand, will be taken at 

 the next Meeting to prevent a recurrence of so truly English a misde- 

 meanour. The French, with all their frivolity and thoughtlessness, have 

 deservedly the credit of being most exemplary in their conduct at exhibi- 

 tions of this sort. (Ibid., June 20.) As the aristocracy thus appear to 

 steal now and then for amusement, it seems but just that they should 

 show a little fellow-feeling to the mobocracy, when they steal from 

 necessity. 



Suffolk. 



Ipswich Horticultural Society. — April 3. Various fruits preserved 

 through the winter, green-house plants, forced flowers, and culinary vege- 

 tables, especially broccoli, obtained prizes. (Suffolk Chron., April 7.) 



The Ipswich Annual Show of Auriculas and Polyanthuses was held, May 3., 

 when our correspondent, Mr. Woollard, one of the first growers in England, 

 obtained the first prize for Gorton's Champion and Grimes's Privateer. 

 Various other prizes were given. {Ipswich Journal, May 12.) 



The Beccles Horticultural Society held its first Meeting, May 9., when 

 various prizes were given for flowers, including nineteen superb hyacinths, 

 some choice varieties of heartsease, and a double polyanthus, unique and 

 of great beauty ; cucumbers ; strawberries ; and a bunch of asparagus of 

 fifty-one heads, weighing 4 lbs. 10 oz. (Ibid., May 12.) 



Wiltshire. 



The Wilts and General Arboricultural, Horticultural, and Botanical So- 

 ciety. — April 10. A number of finely grown specimens of rare plants 

 were exhibited, as well as florists' flowers, fruits, and culinary vegetables. 

 Among the stove plants, we observed ^Euphorbia splendens, Brunsfelsza 

 uniflora, and Curculigo sumatrana. We were glad to see several prizes 

 given to cottagers, for cabbages and onions. — Matt. Thos. Rodding, Hon. 

 Sec. April 16. 



May 18. A still more splendid collection than before, of flowers, fruits, 

 and vegetables, was exhibited ; but only the names of a few that obtained 

 extra-prizes have been sent us. Seven prizes were given to cottagers. 

 Among the extra-prizes is one " to A. B. Lambert, Esq., for a new Ribes." 

 This, we suppose, must have been the Ribes speciosum, a dried specimen 

 of which was lately exhibited by Mr. Lambert at the Linnagan Society : its 

 flowers are almost as beautiful as those of the Fuchsra coccinea, to which 

 they have a general resemblance ; its shoots are thickly covered with 

 prickles ; and the day is perhaps not far distant, when it may form the 

 hedges of our cottage gardens, strengthened with a few plants of double 

 sloe, and varied by the double whin and the blush Cydonia japonica. 



June 19. Our correspondent, Mr. Shennan, is, as usual, the principal 

 exhibiter of rare and finely grown plants; but the first prize was given to 

 Mr. Mitchell for Oncidium flexuosum : prizes were also given for Cymbi- 

 dium aloi'folium, Calanthe ueratrifolia, Alstrdmena psittacma, A. Simszi, 

 and Pancratium calathinum. Prizes were given to cottagers, for peas, 

 potatoes, lettuces, ranunculuses, and Brompton stocks. Among the extra- 

 prizes was one to Mr. Christie, gardener to Lord Radnor, for forbidden 



