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jFawkes. The show of georginas, for the season of the year, was of the 

 most splendid description, amounting to about 300 varieties. One of the 

 most beautiful of the new anniials, the Schizanthus Hooken, gained the 

 prize for the best exotic annual. Among the green-house plants were, Fe- 

 tunia phcenlcea, Terbena Lamberti, V. venosa, Salpiglossis Barclay «««', 

 Oxylobium corclifoiium (new variety), and O'xalis Deppei, with a variety 

 of others newly introduced. The diiferent kinds of culinary vegetables 

 in the exhibition were remarkably fine. {Wakejield and Halifax Journal, 

 July 20.) 



Sept. 25. The decorations of the room were unusually tasteful and 

 elegant. In front of the music gallery was a stag's head of immense size, 

 between the antlers of which were suspended two very large bunches of 

 Syrian grapes, the whole being surrounded by a beautiful design of flowers, 

 and surmounted by the inscription, " Numbers, chap. xiii'. verse 23." This 

 decoration was sent by A. Heywood Esq., of Stanley. The decorations 

 in front of the platform at the head of the room, as well as the festoons of 

 flowers which were suspended along its sides, were furnished by Mr. Wil- 

 liam Barratt, nurseryman, of Wakefield, and were decidedly superior to 

 the ornaments on former occasions. We noticed the following plants 

 among those sent by Mr. Joseph Cooper, botanic gardener to the Right 

 Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam ; the Notelae^'a punctata, in flower, supposed to be 

 the first time of its flowering in England. The C^mbidium lancifoliuni 

 and A^epenthes distillatoria, or pitcher plant; a very fine specimen of the 

 Crinum amabile, from Major Farrand of Arden Grange; also the Psidium 

 CixttleiaJizim, or purple-fruited guava, from the gardens of the Rev. J. A. 

 Rhodes ; and, from the same place, the Vernon/a axilliflora, a plant and 

 specimen of a cone of Banksfa grandis, from New Holland. A new species 

 of iSalvia v/as exhibited by the Rev. S. Sharp, which he brought, in July 

 last, out of the county of Hertford. It was raised from seed sent from 

 Corfu ; and it is supposed that until this year the plant was unknown in 

 this country. Mr. Thomas Belton, gardener to C. Winn, Esq., Nostell 

 Priory, exhibited a specimen of a rare fungus, Jgaricus nobilis ; likewise 

 three fine specimens of dwarf cockscombs. The vegetables exhibited were 

 of the very first description, consisting of almost every production of the 

 garden. A medal was exhibited by Mr. Appleby, gardener to the Rev. 

 J. A. Rhodes, which had been presented to the West Riding Society, to 

 be given to those gardeners who had most distinguished themselves at its 

 periodical meetings. This is the third medal which has been given by the 

 London Society to the West Riding Horticultural Society. Mr. Major 

 exhibited a model of a machine for warming stoves, green-houses, frames, 

 or rooms, with hot water, which excited some attention, and can be fur- 

 nished at a very trifling expense. The cucumber exhibited by J. Catton 

 was grown from seed produced from a cucumber raised this year, sown in 

 January : its length was 22 in. ; it was one of the specimens that gained 

 the prize. Many other very beautiful specimens were exhibited from the 

 gardens of the gentlemen in the neighbourhood ; and numerous prizes 

 were distributed. (Ibid., Sept, 27.) 



York Floral and Horticidtural Society. — The appearance of the hall 

 resembled that of one vast conservatory. The most magnificent and rare 

 plants abounded, and flowers of every varied hue shed their perfumes 

 around, dispensing fragrance far and wide. A table in the centre of the 

 hall was covered with pelargoniums, of which there were at least seventy 

 different species, many of them of the rarest and most beautiful kinds. 

 On the right hand, a great number of charming exotics were tastefully 

 arranged ; and on the left was a fine display of vegetables and fruit which 

 had been shown for prizes. There was a rich profusion of peas, cucum- 

 bers, rhubarb, salad, potatoes, gooseberries, &c.; and the prize vegetables 



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