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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



A Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs has been established, 

 and held its first meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern on the 17th of 

 June. The attendance was neither so good, nor were the articles so nume- 

 rous, as we have no doubt they will be when this Society becomes better 

 known. The queen is said to patronise this Society, and to have offered a 

 piece of plate annually for the best shov/ of tulips. 



The Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society held their first 

 public show, on June 19. and 20., at the rooms of the Society of Arts. 

 A notice of the more remarkable objects shown will be given in our report 

 of the horticultural shows. We shall here notice that upwards of 250 plants, 

 in which there were 128 distinct species, were sent to grace the show, not 

 to be exhibited for a prize, from the botanic garden at Edgbaston. 

 " They," in the words of the report, " formed of themselves a splendid 

 and highly interesting collection, and served to display to full advantage 

 the skill and scientific culture of Mr. Cameron, the much-respected 

 curator." The report communicates, as well, the following interesting 

 information : — " No money prizes being offered at this show, a subscrip- 

 tion was raised, chiefly among the members of the committee, for the 

 purpose of presenting to those gardeners who distinguished themselves on 

 the occasion some testimonial of approbation. Six gardeners were se- 

 lected by the judges; and suitable presents, with inscriptions, are in 

 course of preparation, and will be transmitted to them as soon as they are 

 completed." The names of the gardeners, we have been informed, are, — 

 Mr. George Anderson, gardener to the Earl of Dartmouth. 

 Mr. William Carpenter, gardener to James Taylor, Esq. 

 Mr. Thomas Hetherington, gardener to W. H. Osborn, Esq. 

 Mr. John Smith, gardener to Mrs. Woolley of Summei-field. 

 Mr. John Webster, gardener to Mrs. Taylor of Moseley Hall. 

 Mr. Thomas Williams, gardener to J. Wilmore, Esq., of Oldford Mills. 

 They ai'e to be presented with a teapot, sugar basin, and cream jug, suit- 

 ably inscribed, as these are articles of domestic utility, likely to be brought 

 forward when friends call and stop to breakfast or tea. So anxious, we 

 have been informed, were the gentlemen to give some mark of appro- 

 bation, that the greater part of the sum requisite to effect the above 

 intention was collected almost as soon as the proposition was mentioned. 

 — Cond. 



An admirable Lecture on Horticulture ivas delivered at the Ipswich Me- 

 chanics' Institution, on March 18. 1833, by Air. Woollard. — He traced the 

 progress of the science from the earliest ages to the present period; and, 

 from the able manner in which he managed the subject, we hope he will be 

 induced to resume it on some future occasion. In 1814, Mr. Woollard, 

 as he stated in his lecture, established a Florists' Society in this town ; 

 an example which was soon followed at Norwich, Diss, Colchester, Bury 

 St. Edmunds, and other towns in this district. The two latter, however, 

 have run before us by the establishment of botanic gardens, of which we 

 are at present destitute. It is no creditable reflection, that in a town of 



