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Cox's buff, and quilled brown, Mr. Wharton. We hope that cuttings of these 

 sorts, supposing them to be really new, will soon find their way to the London 

 Horticultural Society, and thence, with proper names, to the commercial 

 gardeners throughout the country. 



Sheffield Horticultural Society. — Sept. 25. Georginas formed the floral part 

 of the exhibition, and the display was most superb and extensive. One of the 

 townsmen was particularly successful in carrying off prizes for this description 

 of flowers, and another of them produced a seedling of a darker colour than 

 any yet grown, and so remarkable for beauty and accuracy that it will not be 

 easily surpassed. A beautiful design, formed of georginas, a representation 

 of the Wharncliffe arms, was prepared by Mr. Harrison. Our attention was 

 also arrested by a splendid leaf of the talipot tree. His Grace the Duke of 

 Devonshire was a very extensive and most successful contributor to this exhi- 

 bition. In fruit there was nothing so rare and estimable as the Ispahan 

 melon. The grapes were truly excellent, and so were the pines. In vegetables 

 we have never seen finer endive or better cucumbers, and the celery was of a 

 first-rate description, as well as the broccoli and savoys. In fact, without 

 descending farther to particulars, we may safely affirm that a better exhibi- 

 tion will not occur this year in England. This is but the third year of the 

 Society's existence, and yet it can vie with any similar institution in its pe- 

 riodical displays. We are happy to observe a decided improvement every 

 year. (Sheffield Iris, and Weekly Dispatch, Sept. 30.) 



Some of the heads of celery exhibited at the August show measured 3 ft. 

 6 in. in length, and 9 in. in circumference, after the outer leaves were 

 stripped off. ( Weekly Dispatch, Sept. 30.) 



We understand that the subscribers to the Sheffield Botanic Garden increase 

 daily, and that there can be no doubt of its being speedily carried into exe- 

 cution. (Ibid.) 



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Glamorgan and Monmouthshire Horticultural Society. — Sept. 25. No pines 

 were exhibited ; the nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood having " con- 

 curred in the exclusion of those costly and luxurious productions, in order to 

 allow of larger and more numerous prizes being granted to industrious cot- 

 tagers." Among many new varieties of apples and pears lately introduced into 

 Glamorganshire, a Marie Louise pear, exhibited by John Moggridge, Esq., of 

 Gabalva, excited great admiration. Mr. Miller of Bristol sent some very 

 fine georginas and German China asters. 



Swansea and Neath Horticultural Society. — Nov. 28. The room was orna- 

 mented with a good collection of chrysanthemums, interspersed with choice 

 flowers and some fine winter fruit, especially apples. We mention this, as we 

 consider it as proving the capability of this country to produce apples equal to 

 any county in England, certainly for a space of nearly 30 miles. The apples 

 from Yniscedwyn satisfied every wellwisher of horticulture, that, even so high 

 up the valley, the coldness was no barrier to their full maturity ; and at this 

 meeting the apples from Fairy Hill, beyond Cefn Bryn, called forth the appro- 

 bation of our best gardeners, and gratified every amateur present. The speci- 

 mens sent by the Rev. S. Phillips (12 in number) were well ripened, formed, 

 and coloured; and we judge (and, we think, accurately) that from the lower 

 part of Gower to nearly the top of the Swansea Vale there is hardly a spot 

 on which the apple might not be planted with profit. We are glad to hear 

 the Society purposes giving additional prizes to cottagers of young and valuable 

 trees, provided they can show their means of planting them ; the thought is 

 pleasing : and we hope this Society, in a few years, will be awarding prizes for 

 the fruit grown on trees planted by its instigation ; thus demonstrating that 

 there is more in it than merely collecting flowers, fruit, and vegetables, to 

 gratify the eyes of the subscribers for the day. The Chaumontel pears from 

 Sketty Hall and Singleton, and the Ribston pippins from Heathfield, deserve 

 the highest praise. These last were part, we believe, of 400 gathered from 



