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gardener to G. C. Ridge, Esq., of Morden Park ; for shrubby calceolarias, to 

 Mr. J. Falconer, gardener to Archdale Palmer, Esq., of Cheam ; for grapes, 

 to Mr, Chapman of Vauxhall ; for a melon, to Mr. H. Pratt, gardener to W. 

 Harrison, Esq., F.H.S. ; for pine-apples, to Mr. Joseph Gundry, gardener to 

 S. Paynter, Esq., F.H.S. ; for pine-apples, to Mr. John Davis; for peaches, 

 to Mr. Upright; for nectarines, to Mr. N. Wilson, gardener to H. Bevan, 

 Esq., F.H.S.; for Brassk Lance«?z«, to Mr. Pratt; for Chinese and Noisette 

 roses, to Mr. Alexander Milne; for Chinese and Noisette roses, to Messrs. 

 Paid, of Cheshunt ; for a collection of 30 garden roses, to. JVTr. Richard 

 Hehner, gardener to R. G. Alston, Esq., F H.S. ; for a collection of 30 

 garden roses, to Mr. Stephen Hooker, F.H.S.; for miscellaneous garden 

 roses, to Mr. H. Cobbett of Horsell, near Woking, Surrey; for six stove 

 and green-house plants, of different genera, to Mr. J. Lane, gardener to J, H. 

 Palmer, Esq., F.H.S.; for alstroemerias, to Mr. J. Falconer ; for 6'Iematis 

 Sieboldt?, to Mr. C. Young of Epsom ; for M6rn« nitida, to Mr. Donald 

 M'Kay ; for a hybrid between Malva Mnnrodna and Mk\\a purpurata, to 

 Mr. Andrew Toward, gardener to H. R. H. the Duchess of Gloucester ; for 

 Brugmansi« sanguinea, to Mr. George Glenny, F.H.S.; for irises, to Mr. 

 Brownof Slough, F.H.S. 



The Silver Banksian Medal. — For pinks, to Mr. George King, gardener to 

 Miss Fuller, Hillingdon Place, Uxbridge; for pinks, to Mr. Wilmer of Sun- 

 bury; for picotees, to the same; for heartsease, to Mr. Lidgard of Webb's 

 Lane, Hammersmith; for heartsease, to Mr. Gaines of Battersea; for Pelar- 

 goniums, to Mr. E. Butcher, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, F.H.S.; for pelar- 

 goniums, to Messrs. Colley and Hill of Hammersmith ; for balsams, to Mr. 

 William Scott, gardener to A. K. Barclay, Esq., of Grove House, Tootino-; 

 for herbaceous calceolarias to Mr. John Green ; for Passiflora quadrangularis, 

 to the Rev. F. BelfielJ, F.H.S.; for apples, to Mr. J. Falconer; for grapes 

 in pots, to Mr. Robert Buck, F.H.S., Blackheath ; for grapes, to the same; 

 for melons, to Mr. J. Stewart, gardener to Lord Ashburton, F.H.S. ; for 

 peaches, to Mr. C. Barnes, gardener to P. Grillion, Esq., East Acton ; for 

 nectarines, to Mr. William Gibbs, gardener to D. Haigh, Esq., of Streatham ; 

 for Chinese and Noisette roses, to Mr. H. Pratt ; for Chinese and Noisette 

 roses, to Messrs. Wood of Maresfield, Sussex ; for a collection of 30 garden 

 roses, to Mr. George Glenny, F.H.S.; for a collection of 30 garden roses, 

 to Messrs. Paul of Cheshunt ; for six stove and green-house plants, of dif- 

 ferent genera, to Mr. D. Ferguson, gardener to P. C. Labouchere, Esq., 

 F.H.S.; for alstroemerias, to Mr. Gaines; for iychnis BungeaW, to Mr. 

 Spence, gardener to R. Durant, Esq., F.H.S. ; for Phlox Drummond?, to 

 Mr. D. Ferguson ; for double yellow roses, to Mr. William Cooper, gardener 

 to W. Leveson Gower, Esq., F.H.S.; for Alstroemerk tricolor, to Mr. Fer- 

 guson; for Campanula garganica, to Mr. Jackson of Kingston; for Antir- 

 rhinum caryophylloides, to the same; for crassulas, to Mr. F. J. Buck of 

 Chelsea; for irises, to Mr. Lidgard. 



No. IV. (See Vol. XH. p. 612.) 



CeVtificate granted in the Horticultural Society of London 

 on the lOlh instant. 



John Halliday of Craiglands, near Moffat, Dumfriesshire, 

 a Certificate of the First Class. 



Hort. Soc, July 13. 1837. 



Art. VIL Covent Garden Market. 



The rains which prevailed during the past and the present week have ma- 

 terially affected the supplies furnished to the market. The prevalent cold of 

 the spring had materially retarded the growth of the early summer vegetables ; 



