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Mr. Anderson. The fruits presented some ripe strawberries (from the 

 gardens of the Marquess of Donegall and of Mr. Brownlow), ripe grapes, 

 full-grown green peas, carrots, turnips, cauliflowers, and asparagus ,• the 

 last of a very superior description. A very fine cucumber (measuring 

 about 24- in. in length), which was raised by Mr. Scott (Ormeau). {North- 

 ern Whig, M;iy 23".) 



Dublin Horticultural Society. — April 30. The display of rare and beau- 

 teous productions of the garden afforded convincing proof that horticul- 

 ture is making rapid strides in this country. Amongst the plants exhibited, 

 we were particularly struck with the beauty of two specimens of rhodo- 

 dendron, hybrids between the arboreum and catavt-biense. This splendid 

 variety never before flowered in this country. They were sent from 

 Mr. Toole's nursery, Cullen'sWood. From the College Botanical Gardens, 

 among other remarkable plants, we perceived the Fuchsfa globosa, the 

 Anthocercis littorea, the Petunia phoenicea, and the Jcacia verticillata. 

 The botanical garden at Glasnevin also contributed a number of fine exotic 

 plants ; and others v/ere sent by the gentry of the neighbourhood. ( Warder, 

 May 4.) _ 



June 18. An exceedingly fine and well-grown specimen of Petunia 

 phoenicea, and a great variety of fine calceolarias sent in by Mr. Scott, 

 gardener to R. Williams, Esq., Drumcondra Castle. Mr. Scott's fine 

 striped seedling georgina (Scott's defiance), which obtained the prize last 

 autumn, was exhibited in flower. Two vines, in pots, bearing large bunches 

 of ripe grapes, raised from layers this year; also some enormous cucum- 

 bers, sent in by Mr. Nevin, from the chief secretary's gardens, together 

 with the beautiful Campanula laciniata and pulla, Lapeyrousia speciosa, 

 &c., and an uncommonly fine plant of Cereus speciosissimus, in flower and 

 fruit. Two very fine baskets of pelargoniums, from the Royal Dublin 

 Society's Botanic Gardens. A very beautiful variety of the Indian cress 

 Tropse^olum majus, introduced from Constantinople ; it was sent in from the 

 garden of Charles Hamilton, Esq., Ham Wood. (Ibid., June 22.) 



August 8. The following splendid exotics were sent in from the College 

 Botanic Gardens, not for competition, but to ornament the stages, viz., 

 Cereus speciosissimus, Chironia trinerva, Latdnia borbonica. Petunia phoe- 

 nicea, Kalosanthes coccinea and versicolor, Angelonia salicariasfolia Alstrce- 

 mena Pclegrina, Hedychium maximum, Tinea rosea alba, Amaryllis pulve- 

 rulenta, A. purpurascens, Nierembergfa gracilis. Among the miscellaneous 

 articles sent in to ornament the stages, were a collection of annual plants, 

 upwards of thirty in number, of new and beautiful kinds, from the gardens 

 of the Right Hon. William Saurin, and a branch of white currants, of 

 extraordinary fertility, from Mr. E. Murphy's garden, at Killester ; also a 

 fine basket of ericas from the garden of Samuel White, Esq., Killakee. 



Dublin Fruit and Floiver Exhibition. — Aug. 8. Mr. Nevin, gardener to 

 the chief secretary, exhibited specimens of Gladiolus natalensis and Escal- 

 \dnia montevidensis, which were much admired. Two baskets of heath were 

 very beautiful, and several of the plants from private gardens; we were 

 glad to see herbaceous plants in the exhibition, as they have been too long 

 neglected^ {Dublin Times, Aug. 11.) 



Waterford Horticultural Society. — April 25. This was the first show, 

 and^the display of every production of the garden and the green-house was 

 shperior to anything that we could have expected at this early and hitherto 

 unfavourable season, and we are convinced that many, like ourselves, almost 

 forgot the period of the year, while looking on the quantity of pines, grapes, 

 strawberries, apples, &c., in full perfection of ripeness, surrounded and 

 ornamented with full-blown roses, mignonette, pelargoniums, tuHps, ane- 

 mones, hyacinths, auriculas, &c. &c. {JVaterford Mirror, April 27.) 



Aug.lO. So gorgeous a collection of fruit was never before seen within 

 our precincts, nor probably within a large district around. Pine-apples 



