Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire. 589 



We embrace this opportunity of calling the attention of the secretaries of 

 all horticultural societies to the subject of our forthcoming Arboretum Britan- 

 nicum. We are desirous of procuring accounts, descriptions, and measure- 

 ments of remarkable indigenous trees and shrubs, and of all foreign trees 

 and shrubs whatever, in every part of the British Islands, in order to enable 

 us to give a complete county history of trees and plantations. We have 

 given, in another page (p. 582.), a specimen of the plates of this work, and a 

 tabular form for recording the dimensions and other particulars of each spe- 

 cies. We have circulated above 1500 of these forms, with the genera to be 

 contained in the work printed on them ; but, as there must be many hundreds 

 of gardeners who have not received a copy of this circular, who yet can com- 

 municate to us important information, we request them to copy out the form 

 (p. 582.) on a large foolscap page, and to fill up the columns with the particulars 

 of all the remarkable species of native or foreign trees which are under their 

 charge, or come within their observation. We refer them to what we have 

 said on the subject in our preceding Number, p. 558 — 564. 



ENGLAND. 



Bedfordshire. — The Bedfordshire Horticultural Society. April 25. We 

 were informed that a meeting of this Society was to be held as above j but no 

 particulars of the show have reached us. 



July 18. At the annual summer show, a great number of beautiful car- 

 nations and picotees were exhibited ; and Messrs. Pope, Brinkler, and Hogg 

 were the most successful candidates. {Northampton Mercury, April 26.) 



Berkshire. — Royal Berks Horticidtural Society. May 14. The crowd 

 was so excessive, that it was scarcely possible to obtain a view of the flowers. 

 The tulips, however, appeared not so numerous as usual. Mr. Clark and the 

 Rev. J. Tyso gained the first prizes for tulips ; as did Mr. Allnatt the first prize 

 for the pansies. The articles exhibited by cottagers for prizes were very good. 



Reading Horticidtural Society. — May 21. This was the first meeting of the 

 Society. Messrs. Brown of Slough, and Mr. Priest, nurseryman, Reading, 

 contributed several fine specimens ; and Mr. Clark, Mr. Allnatt, and Mr. Tyso 

 were successful candidates for flowers. There were five cottagers' prizes. 

 The room was excessively crowded. 



Henley Horticidtural Society. — May 13. The cottagers' prizes formed by 

 far the most interesting portion of this show, though a great variety of beau- 

 tiful plants were exhibited from the gardens of the nobility and gentry in the 

 neighbourhood. It was the first show of the Society. 



Buckinghamshire. — The Buckingham Domestic Horticultural Meeting. 

 Jidy 22. This was the annual dinner of the Society ; and it was numerously 

 attended. The room was tastefully decorated with flowers. {Northampton 

 and Leamington Free Press, Aug. 2.) 



Cambridgeshire. — The Cambridgeshire Horticultural Society. March 19. 

 The articles were numerous, and of the first quality; they consisted principally 

 of apples, rhubarb, cucumbers, cabbages and other vegetables ; hyacinths and 

 polyanthus narcissuses : in gaining the prizes for which, C. Pemberton, Esq., 

 was the most successful candidate. The principal green-house plant exhibited 

 was a very beautiful specimen of Camell/Vi japoniea (Chandlen), shown by 

 Mr. Biggs ; who also gained prizes for a pot of pinks and an Azalea indica 

 rosea. There were but three cottagers' prizes. {Cambridge Chron., March 21.) 



April 16. This show was principally for auriculas and polyanthuses, of 

 which a great variety were exhibited. Among the former, Booth's Freedom, 

 and, among the latter, George the Fourth, seem to have been most successful. 

 The prize for the four best double primroses was awarded to Mr. Denson ; and 

 the colours were white, crimson, yellow, and lilac. There were five cottagers' 

 prizes, three of which were gained by John Webb of Bourne. (Ibid., 

 April 25.) 



May 14. This exhibition was " the most splendid which it has been the 

 good fortune of the Society to present." The principal articles were tulips, 

 anemones, ranunculuses, and pelargoniums, of which some very fine varieties 



