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but the gardeners seemed more especially to excel in pelargoniums, for we 

 have rarely seen such a healthy lot of plants so laden with showy and 

 perfect flowers. The grapes, apples, strawberries, &c., taking prizes,[were 

 handed about amongst the ladies and gentlemen present, and pronounced 

 to be in full perfection. There was also a large show of broccoli, cabbages, 

 potatoes, cucumbers, peas, rhubarb, &c. Of the latter article there[was 

 a fine dish of the giant kind, two stalks of which weighed 2 lbs. 14; oz. 

 There were no prizes for cottagers. {Diiblhi Advertiser, May 24.) 



Essex. — Chelmsford Florists' Society. The first prize for carnations 

 (Bijou de Claremont, and seven others) was gained by Mr. Pearson. Of 

 the picotees, Mr. Wm. Bird won the first prize, with Martin's Queen Ade- 

 laide, Woollard's Miss Bacon, and four others. Prizes were also distri- 

 buted for georginas, and different kinds of fruit and vegetables. {Essex 

 Herald, July 14.) 



Gloucestershire. — Bristol and Clifton Horticultural Society. May 21. 

 A great number of beautiful plants and flowers were exhibited ; among 

 which, a very beautiful calceolaria, C. pendula, shown by Mr. Miller, was 

 very much admired. Some fine baskets of flowers were exhibited by Mr. 

 Taunton, including about twenty species of roses, all of which had 

 bloomed in the open air. Numerous prizes were distributed. {Bristol 

 Mercury, May 25.) 



June 25. The strawberries, cherries, grapes, nectarines, and melons 

 were of surpassing beauty and excellence ; we also noticed some superb 

 lemons, and the cuHnary vegetables were very fine. The show of plants and 

 flowers has been, perhaps, surpassed on former occasions. The receipts 

 of the day exceeded any sum that had ever been collected on any former 

 occasion : it was also very satisfactory to find that, in consequence of 

 arrangements made by the committee, every contributor received back 

 his own plants and other articles exhibited, without confusion or plunder. 

 There were a great many competitors for the cottagers' prizes. The gen- 

 tlemen in the neighbourhood contributed liberally in sending flowers and 

 flowering plants, as did Messrs. Maule and Lee, and Mr. Miller. {Bristol 

 Gazette, June 27.) 



Cheltenham Horticultural and Floral Society. — April 23. This exhibi- 

 tion, in the flowers, fruits, and plants of the season, was decidedly the best 

 we have yet seen. The hyacinths, polyanthuses, roses, pinks, and all the 

 floral variety of spring, were remarkably beautiful ; while the heaths were 

 of peculiar beauty and delicacy. Specimens of the cactus tribe and other 

 plants obtained the admiration of all present. The specimens of fruit, 

 particularly pines, strawberries, currants, and dessert apples (that appeared 

 as if they had been just plucked from the trees), and the show of vegetables, 

 should not pass without commendation. The auriculas, polyanthuses, and 

 hyacinths were also remarkably fine. {Cheltenham Chronicle, April 25.) 



May 22. The display of flowers, particularly of tulips and anemones, 

 could not, we think, have been surpassed in any part of the kingdom. The 

 stove and green-house plants were also remarkably fine ; in fact, the excel- 

 lence naturally produced by a spirit of emulation was conspicuous on every 

 stand in the room. Numerous prizes were distributed, but none were given 

 to cottagers. {Ibid., May 23.) 



June 23. The specimens were probably not so numerous as at former 

 exhibitions, yet ample amends were made by their superior quality, and in the 

 first and second classes conferred upon the exhibitors the highest credit. 

 There was a beautiful collection of pinks and roses; many choice and rare ex- 

 otics were arranged with the stove and green-house plants; there was also a 

 good collection of annuals, among which were some very handsome balsams, 

 and several magnificent cockscombs. Among the fruits, the attention 

 and admiration of the numerous assemblage of the beau monde were pecu- 

 liarly attracted by the display of grapes, and by two plates of strawberries 

 (from the gardens of Henry Norwood Trye, Esq., of Leckhampton Court, 



