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which they are planted. The great variety of the willow family, dipping 

 their drooping boughs into the brook which meanders through the lower 

 part of the gardens, is very interesting. The alpine plants in the rockery 

 become every year more and more pleasing ; the mosses, &c., fast covering 

 the craggy stones of this v/ild scenery in miniature. A bed of handsome 

 georginas, mixed with China asters, on each side of the conservatories, was 

 very attractive. The conservatories themselves contained nothing parti- 

 cular in bloom, but the plants looked healthy and vigorous. Altogether, 

 the gardens were clean and in excellent order; and their condition reflects 

 much credit on the industrious curator, Mr. Campbell. (^Manchester 

 Guardian, Oct. 3.) 



Leicestershire. — Leicestershire Floricidtiiral Society. This show was 

 for carnations and picotees. The most successful competitors were Mr. 

 Wm. Thompson and Mr. T. Deacon. {Weekly Dispatch.) 



Middlesex. — The North London andFinchley United Society of Florists. 

 April 24. This was an exhibition of auriculas: some fine flowers were 

 shown, and several prizes were awarded. 



July 23. This was a show for carnations. 



The Metropolitan Society of Florists and Ainateurs, — Aug. 13. This 

 show was merely for georginas. 



Aug. 21, Some of the georginas exhibited at this show, particularly 

 those of Mr. Widnal of Granchester, were extremely beautiful. Mr. 

 Brown of Slough showed a large collection of heartsease; and Messrs. 

 Chandler, Mr. Hopwood, and Mr. Dennis exhibited splendid collections of 

 flowers. 



Norfolk. — Diss Horticultural Society. April 18. The exhibition of 

 fruits and vegetables was excellent; but we have seldom observed the 

 flower-tables so thinly covered. The specimens which chiefly attracted 

 our notice were, a dish of Keen's seedling strawberries, sent by James 

 Flower, Esq., Eccles Hall; mushrooms, kidneybeans, cucumbers, and 

 potatoes, by G. St. V. Wilson, Esq., Redgrave ; several sorts of apples, by 

 R. Gamble, Esq.,Wortham ; asparagus and sea-kale, by Mrs. Harrison, Pal- 

 grave ; broccoli and celery, by N. W. Ridley Colborne, Esq., West Har- 

 ling ; and thirteen stalks of rhubarb (not exhibited for a prize), the produce 

 of a single root, measuring from 3 ft. 9 in. to 4 ft. 3 in,, and several weigh- 

 ing from 13 oz. to 17 oz. The cucumbers, of which there were several 

 brace, were of the best description. The cottagers' table was exceedingly 

 well filled, and fifteen prizes were distributed among them. (Bury and 

 Suffolk Herald, April 24. ; and Bury and Norwich Post, and East Anglian, 

 April 24.) 



Ly7in Horticidtural Society. — June 26. The Humea, the Gesner2fl!, and 

 all the plants contributed by Mr. Allen excited great admiration ; as did the 

 Hoya from Hamond Lodge; the oleanders and ericas from Wereham 

 Hall ; the Salpiglossis and Alstroemeriff, &c., from Hunstanton ; and the 

 collection of balsams, pelargoniums, &c., from Stowe Hall. Some of the 

 vegetables, too, were remarkably fine, particularly the cauhflowers and 

 Windsor beans from Mr. Rolin. Upon the cottagers' tables were some 

 good French beans, white currants, cucumbers, &c. {Bury and Norwich 

 Post, and East Anglian, i\.\\y 13.) 



Norwich Horticidtural Society. — June 26. Among the flowers, Mrs. 

 Mackie's roses and hybrid calceolarias were remarkably fine, and excited 

 great admiration. Several new and well-flowered pelargoniums, a collection 

 of pinks, and a number of ericas and other green-house plants, were also 

 sent with unsparing liberality by Mrs. Mackie, who still adheres to her 

 resolution of refusing to accept the Society's prizes in return for her sup- 

 port. [This lady, we regret to learn, is since dead. Our readers will find 

 a short biographical notice of her in our Obituary.] A curious little plant 

 of Ceropegia sta^diceformis, raised by Mr. Hitchin, and now flowered for 



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