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potatoes, Roman beans, peas, cabbages, cucumbers, beet root, celery, and 

 other vegetable productions. In the room appropriated for the show of 

 flowers, &c, by nurserymen at a distance was a very superior collection fur- 

 nished by Mr. Veitch of Killerton. It consisted of about 200 varieties of the 

 georgina, of almost every hue ; among them, the new seedling white, Emma, 

 Ariel, Jason, Criterion, and Alicia; 100 varieties of annuals, &c. There were 

 forty cottagers' prizes, of which Robert Dingle gained by far the greater 

 number. (County and North Devon Advertiser, Aug. 22.) 



Oct. 7. The room was elegantly decorated with georginas ; and Messrs. 

 Eale, Burge, Pontey, Rendle, and Lucombe,Pince, and Co., &c, contributed as 

 liberally as heretofore. There were some fine green-house plants exhibited, 

 several of which were by Mr. Booth, from the gardens of Sir C. Lemon ; and 

 some excellent vegetables. In the cottagers' room were some apples and 

 pears of immense size. There were forty-five cottagers' prizes, several of 

 which were gained by John and Thomas Crang, and Sarah Harris. A very 

 interesting scene now took place, in the distribution of prizes to four cottagers, 

 who had produced testimonials of exemplary character. The first prize, of 

 4/., was awarded and paid to Roger Edgcumbe of Milton Damerel, recom- 

 mended by William Law, Esq.; the second, of 31., to Richard Rogerman of 

 Horwood, recommended by the Rev. John Dene ; the third, of 21., to John 

 Hunt of Fremington, recommended by G. A. Barber, Esq.; and the fourth, 

 11., to James Corney of Marwood, recommended by the Rev. Charles Mules. 

 The president, on awarding the first prize to Roger Edgcumbe, said he was 

 delighted to present him with the first token offered to a cottager who had 

 brought up his family without relief from the parish, and in good moral prin- 

 ciples. The secretary read an additional testimony in favour of the character 

 of Roger Edgcumbe, from which it appeared he has had ten children, six of 

 whom are now living ; that all the ten arrived at the age of twenty-one years ; 

 that two of his daughters died, after long illness ; that he paid the medical 

 bills and funeral expenses; that he maintained the child of the deceased 

 daughter a considerable time ; that, in June last, his youngest son broke his 

 leg, and had all his clothes burnt in the house of his master, a farmer, whose 

 premises were destroyed by fire ; that he has since maintained him, and paid 

 for medical attendance ; that he never had a child bound apprentice to the 

 parish, nor ever received relief ; that the highest wages he ever received was 

 Is. 2d. a day, and at the present time only Is. This account in no way detracts 

 from the deserving qualities of the other three, as the president handsomely in- 

 timated on awarding their respective gratuities ; for which they returned thanks, 

 and withdrew, with evident feelings of gratification at this public acknowledg- 

 ment that they had fulfilled their duties in the station to which it had pleased 

 God to call them. (Ibid., Oct. 10.) 



Royal Devon and Cornwall Botanical and Horticultural Society. — May 22. 

 Mr. Pontey's stove and American plants were very much admired ; as were 

 the plants sent from the Duke of Bedford's seat at Endsleigh, though the 

 latter had travelled twenty miles. Many other very fine plants were ex- 

 hibited ; but, we are sorry to say, some of the finest pelargoniums were almost 

 completely ruined by the number of cuttings purloined by some of the 

 visiters to the show. Such conduct is in the highest degree disgraceful. 

 The secretary, after a few preliminary observations, called the attention of 

 the meeting to a magnificent specimen of Victoria wheat, sent from Wembury 

 by Sir E. Thornton, exhibiting from twenty to thirty stems, arising from one 

 root, all in fine ear, although only in the 25th day of their growth, having 

 been sown (according to the exhibition ticket attached) on the 27th of 

 April. There were other fine specimens exhibited in ear, but none which 

 at all approached Sir Edward's, in point of merit or the short period of 

 their growth : the height of Sir Edward's specimen was between 3 ft. and 

 4 ft. This is a bearded wheat, a kind not in general favour among the farmers, 

 but in this instance we must suspend our judgment, in deference to the 

 authority of Humboldt, until it has had a fair trial. The secretary next 



