Staffordshire, Siffolk, Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire. 5^B 



Mr. Bevan contributed some valuable exotics. The show of fruits and vege- 

 tables was very small. - Mr. Trevethan had a dish of very fine pines, ^^rown 

 within two years from the setting; but there was only one dish of grapes, and 

 two strawberries. (Bury Post, July 12.) 



Sussex. — Brighton and Sussex Horticultural Society. — Sept. 1. The collec- 

 tion of dahlias was beautiful ; and the grapes, Orleans plums, and cherries 

 attracted great attention. 



Chichester Horticultural Society. — Aug. 1. The best fruit was shown by Mr. 

 Harrison, gardener to the Earl of Egremont. 



Hurstper point Horticultural Society. — Attg. 18. The amateurs displayed an 

 excellent assortment of flowers, fruit, and vegetables ; and the productions of 

 the cottagers, in fruit and vegetables, were highly gratifying. 



Warwickshire. — Birmingham Tulip Shoiu. June 15. — Above 1300 flowers 

 were shown ; also many green-house plants, one of which was a superb dryan- 

 dra, nearly 6 ft. high, sent by Mr. Mellor of Aston. The prizes v.-ere nume- 

 rous. {Gardeiier'' s Gazette, June 24.) 



Coventry and Warwickshire Horticultural and Floricultural Society. — Aug. 8. 

 This was a very splendid exhibition. 



Rugby Horticultural Society. — June 29. The vegetables were the best 

 articles exhibited. 



Westmoreland Gooseberry Shoiv. — Aug. 5. The largest yellow gooseberry 

 was Rookwood, 19 dwt. 12 grs. ; red, roaring lion, 18 dwt. 22 gr.; green, pea- 

 cock, lodwt. 22 gr.; white, eagle, 14 dwt. 15 gr. The prizes were all given in 

 useful articles, such as copper kettles, knives and forks, &c. 



Wiltshire. — T%e' First Meeting of the Wilts and General Horticultural 

 Society. — Ajyril 4. The forced shrubs presented a gay and interesting appear- 

 ance ; and amongst them two specimens of that beautiful, new, hardy plant, the 

 Clianthus puniceus, three feet in height, and laden with flowers, were particu- 

 larly conspicuous ; but the most attractive object was a superb collection of 

 seedhng Amaryllifte, comprising 12 varieties, exhibited by Mr. Dodd, gardener 

 to Col. Baker. A remarkably healthy and well-blown specimen of the Camellia 

 reticulata, sent by Thomas King, Esq., was the subject of much admiration; 

 as was also a plant of ^rica Linnasana superba, from the extensive collection 

 of C. B. Wall, Esq., M. P. Amongst the plants not for competition, was a 

 splendid new seedling variety of azalea (A. phoenicea grandiflora), exhibited 

 by Mr. Squibb, who a' so sent a numerous and well selected collection of plants 

 among vv'hich were specimens of the new camellia ( C. j. Donklaen'i), of Rhodo- 

 dendron Cunninghami ; and of E'pacris cainpanulata rubra. {Salisbury Herald 

 April, 8. 1837.) ' 



Alay 23. The collection of plants v/as most abundant, and many of the 

 specimens were of surpassing excellence. We wei'e particularly attracted by 

 a specimen of Tropae^olum tricolorum, exhibited by Mr. Christie, gardener to 

 the Earl of Radnor, which had flowered so abundantly that the flowers almost 

 concealed the trellising on which the plant was trained. We also noticed a 

 new and curious stove plant (Pothos sp.), exhibited by the president, A. B. 

 Lambert, Esq., and lately introduced by him from Peru. A new yellow- 

 flowering sweetbriar of singular beauty was exhibited by Thomas King, Esq.; 

 and Mr. Brown, gardener to the Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., sent a fine spe- 

 cimen of the new hardy herbaceous plant Pentstemon Coboe^a. The show of 

 fruits was particularly good ; for, in addition to a gigantic Providence pine-apple 

 from the pinery of Colonel Baker, we noticed a profusion of grapes and straw- 

 berries from the gardens of the Earl of Normanton ; J. H. Penruddocke, Esq., 

 M.P. ; and J. Pulteney, Esq.; and from the forcing-houses of Mr. King there 

 were cherries and red currants. The vegetables, also, were neither deficient in 

 quality nor abundance. Amongst the plants not for competition, the pelargo- 

 niums exhibited by Mr, Squibb of the Fisherton Nursery were preeminently 

 attractive; and a new variety of Cactus, (Epiphjllum splendidum) the flower 

 of which surpasses, in size and splendour, that of C. Ackermanni major. (Jbid 

 May 27.) '' 



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