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tickets, entitling the holders of them (if strangers) to be admitted on the pay- 

 ment of 1^. each. It was also stated that, since the last annual meeting, a 

 change has been made in the plan of the exhibitions. After some negotiation, 

 it was considered desirable by the committee to form a union with the War- 

 wickshire Floral and Horticultural Society, under the title of the " United 

 Exhibitions of the Birmingham Botanical and "Warwickshire Floral Society," 

 one of the main objects of which was to prevent the too frequent recurrence 

 of exhibitions. (Aris's Birminghavi Gazette, Oct. 31.) 



Coventry and Warwickshire Floral and Horticultural Society. — June. For 

 the flowers. Lady Hood and Mr. James Howe appear to have been the most 

 successful competitors ; and for the fruit and vegetables. Earl Craven and 

 Lady Hood. Some very beautiful roses were sent by Earl Craven. {Coventry 

 Mercury, June 25. 1836.) 



Sept. 14. The show of plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables, was most 

 excellent ; but to enumerate individually the different specimens exhibited 

 would far exceed our limits; and we can only express Our decided opinion, 

 that, with a continuance of the industry, perseverance, and attention hitherto 

 paid by the subscribers who have so spiritedly come forward with the produc- 

 tions of their gardens, the Society will flourish beyond the expectations of the 

 most sanguine of its promoters, and that every good anticipated at its forma- 

 tion will be fully realised. The doors were opened about one o'clock, and in 

 a few minutes so great was the influx of subscribers and visitors as barely to 

 admit of passing between the stand and the tables. In conclusion, we must 

 not omit 'to notice the cottagers' and artisans' table, upon which we observed 

 a good show of vegetables and flowers; and we hope that an increasing emu- 

 lation will be excited amongst that class of persons; and that much benefit, 

 as well as pleasure, will be derived from their attention to horticultural pur- 

 suits. {Coventry Herald, Sept. 16.) 



Nov. 15. The show of flowers, when taken in consideration with the late 

 unfavourable state of the weather, far exceeded what might have been ex- 

 pected ; and of the fruit, it is not too much to say that it might, without 

 hesitation, have been put in competition with that of any place in England. 

 The grapes, pears, and apples were particularly admired ; as were the vegeta- 

 bles, which, considering the season of the year, were in great abundance. The 

 prizes were gained principally by Earl Craven (to whose gardener, Mr. Oliver, 

 the specimens shown were highly creditable). Lady Hood, Chandos Leigh, 

 Esq., and Messrs. Howe, Herbert, and Ogden. The chrysanthemums shown 

 by Mr. Joseph Howe and Mr. Abraham Hei-bert deserved the highest praise. 

 {Ibid, Nov. 18.) 



WALES. 



General Meeti^ig of the Swansea and Neath Horticultural Society. — Dec. 1. 

 After the company had viewed the chrysanthemums, and other flowers and 

 fruit, J. H. Vivian, Esq., M.P., took the chair as president, and, having briefly 

 introduced the object of the meeting to the company, called on the honorary 

 secretary to read the report of the managing committee, from which the fol- 

 lowing is an extract : — " The committee think it unnecessary, but in general 

 terms, to allude to the decided advance in the last three or four years in all 

 the leading branches of horticulture in this town and neighbourhood ; and 

 one striking benefit is, the far better supply, in quantity and quality, of these 

 things in our market: this is one of the substantial good works of the Swan- 

 sea and Neath Horticultural Society. The gardens of the rich, as well as of 

 the poor, have productions in them now that were never heard of, much less 

 seen : every new seed is tried, and the result made known, by which means 

 all share in the advantage, and may select those most approved. The nursery 

 and seedsmen vie in obtaining the very best and newest varieties, knowing 

 that, as a spirit of competition is afloat, their only chance of success depends 

 on the excellence of their articles." The report, after alluding to the number 

 of prizes distributed during the last year among the cottagers (eighty-seven 



