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gardeners, Mi\ Duncan, the excellent and scientific gardener to R. F. Beau- 

 champ, Esq., gained, and deservedly, the greatest number of prizes. Amongst 

 the nurserymen, by far the greatest number of prizes were awarded to Messrs. 

 Hammond and Stephens. The most striking specimen in the room was their 

 Calceolaria splendida, raised by them last year. This remarkable plant had 

 on it nearly 200 flowers, and was universally admitted to be the finest that 

 has been shown in Taunton. It was sent off to London immediately after 

 the show, to be exhibited in Messrs. Flannagan and Nutting's shop, Mansion- 

 House Street. Messrs. Hammond and Stephens also exhibited two very 

 large plants of Tropae^olum tricolorum, one of which measured 10ft. in height 

 and 4 ft. in width. Mi\ Veitch had also a beautiful small plant of the same, 

 but more fully in flower, which was truly splendid. The show was also much 

 indebted to Mr. Veitch for many other new and beautiful creeping plants. 

 Mr. Young obtained a prize for a fine collection of heaths, which were much 

 admired and formed one of the most interesting objects in the room. (Somer- 

 set County Gazette, May 20.) 



Sept. 22. Among the prizes were for nurserymen, Hammond and Stevens, 

 dahlias, bouquet of ; collection of ; seedling dahlias ; hardy annuals ; each the 

 first prize. John Young, ericas, extra prize ; green-house plants, roses, orna- 

 mental basket of cut flowers ; ditto of hardy plants ; bouquet of dahlias ; star 

 of dahlias ; each the first prize. Webber and Pierce, dahlias, awarded the 

 first prize ; but afterwards withdrawn, in consequence of their being brought 

 after time. {Western Flying Post, Oct. 2. 1837.) 



Dorsetshire. — Sherborne and Yeovil Horticultural Society. — April 26. 

 Among the plants, we noticed a fine and venerable Cyclamen persicum, the 

 property of Mi". Wellington, of Yeovil ; its size and beauty attracted great 

 attention, which was not abated from the fact that it had been in its owner's 

 possession for the last forty years. The plants from Leweston and from 

 Compton House were very numerous, and many of them exceedingly rare 

 and beautiful. They were admirably arranged in tiers above the floor on op- 

 posite sides of the room, and certainly struck the spectator with admiration, 

 both on entering, and after he had succeeded in reaching the centre of the 

 room, where both collections could be viewed to very great advantage. 

 Among the prizes were the following, for articles of superior merit, not speci- 

 fied : — To Mr. Spong, for mimuli in variety, Collinsi« bicolor, Nemophila 

 insignis, and Clianthus puniceus ; and to Mr. Wayman, for Brugmansif«. (The 

 Western Flying Post, May 1. 1837.) 



July 19. On no former occasion was the display excelled. The company 

 were highly pleased with the arrangements of the committee of management, 

 who very properly divided the exhibition into three classes ; fruits, vegetables, 

 and flowers, appropriating a room to each class. Among the prizes awarded 

 were some to Mr, Clarke, gardener to Wyndham Goodden, Esq., for the best 

 pine-apple, the best melon, the best raspberries, the best gooseberries, heaviest, 

 and best flavoured, for extra peas, and for extra cockscombs ; and others to 

 Mr. Spong, gardener to Robert Gordon, Esq., for the best black grapes, for 

 the best nectarines, for the best lettuces, for the best roses, for the best stove 

 plants, and for the best cockscombs. Among the nurserymen Mr. J. Da- 

 vison, of Sherborne, exhibited fine specimens of green-house and stove plants, 

 &c. From Harris's nursery gardens of Upway there was a splendid col- 

 lection ; among which were some mottled balsams. Fuchsia mutabilis, grandi- 

 flora (new), 100 different sorts of roses, and 100 splendid varieties of pansies. 

 Mr. John Young, of Taunton, exhibited a splendid collection of Cape heaths, 

 which appeared one mass of bloom. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., nurserymen, 

 Exeter, exhibited a very splendid collection of plants, &c., and amongst which 

 we particularly noticed the foUowini!: : — Oncidium papilio and several other 

 of the Orchidaceae, iVepenthes distillatoria, many very fine specimens of 

 ericas, three very splendid new pelargoniums, with many other choice plants ; 

 in one of their stoves they have a magnificent specimen of Miisa Caven- 

 dlshii, fruiting in the very highest state of perfection. {Ibid., July 24.) 



