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principlal stage with groups of evergreens, interspersed with flowers, amongst 

 which the cerulean blue of the agapanthus was conspicuous. There were 

 other pleasing manifestations of a desire to enrich the exhibition, and contri- 

 butions to that effect were liberally made. Amongst these, we may mention 

 that Miss Smith, the daughter of Mr. Alxeander Smith, nurseryman, prepared 

 and presented several ornamental baskets of beautiful flowers, which were 

 placed upon the Society's tables during the show, and much admired. The 

 collection of dahlias certainly was magnificent, and many individual specimens 

 perfect in every requisite. Fruit of the more useful sorts was plentiful and 

 fine; nor were the luxuries of the dessert deficient either in quantity or quality. 

 Great interest was taken in the cottagers' exhibitions of excellent fruit and 

 vegetables : the quality of the latter is obviously improved since the establish- 

 ment of this Society,- a gratifying proof of the benefits to be derived from 

 industrious and sober habits. {^Gloucestershire Chronicle, Sept. 17.) 



Hampshire. — The Ham/pshire Horticultural Society. — March 19. The 

 show was most splendid in forced flowers, vegetables, and green-house plants. 

 Fruits were confined to pears and apples : the latter were numerous, and ex- 

 hibited good management in the gardeners' method of preserving them. The 

 Rev. F. Beadon, the president, exhibited a large collection of well-kept table 

 and kitchen apples, stove plants, Elford rhubarb, and two varieties of pears. 

 A very fine box of forced lilies of the valley, a large basket of finely flowered 

 Neapolitan violets, a tray of handsome hyacinths, and a collection of other 

 flowering plants, were sent by Sir T. Baring ; a good collection of hyacinths, 

 by the Rev. Mr. Cheere ; a fine Z>aphne odoratissima, and other green-house 

 plants, with forced vegetables, by Col. Wall ; a remarkably fine specimen of 

 TropsB^olum tricolorum, with other green-house and hot-house plants, by John 

 Fleming, Esq. ; a collection of green-house plants, by the Rev. Mr. Rashleigh ; 

 very fine asparagus, and other forced vegetables, by Lord Ashburton ; a beau- 

 tiful specimen of a new stapelia, by the Rev. Mr. Garnier; and numerous 

 other flowering plants and vegetables, by the nobility and gentry of the neigh- 

 bourhood. There was a distribution of grafts and seeds amongst the mem- 

 bers, which were sent by the London Horticultural Society, together with a 

 liberal supply from Messrs. Ronalds of Brentford, and Mr. Page and Mr. 

 Rogers of Southampton ; in the whole, between 3000 and 4000 packets. A 

 cottager's prize was gained by Mr. Charles Young, for some rhubarb stalks 

 grown without forcing. {^Salishuri/ Herald, March 19.) 



June 27. This meeting was held at Winchester, where a most splendid 

 show of flowers was exhibited. The vegetables were plentiful, excellent, 

 and in great variety : the fruits were fine and excellent, but sparing in quan- 

 tity. A fine tyoTIection of pelargoniums, most of them seedlings, were sent by 

 J. King, Esq., of Corhampton ; several stove, green-house, and herbaceous 

 plants, as well as melons and strawberries from the Rev. Mr. Beadon ; a large 

 and fine collection of plants from Mr. Page of Southampton, and another 

 from Mr. Ingram ; and numerous specimens of flowers and fruit from the sur- 

 rounding nobility and gentry. The competition for cottagers' prizes was very 

 limited. {Ibid., July 2.) 



August 4. This meeting was held at the Royal Victoria Archery Rooms, 

 Southampton, where an excellent collection of flowers, fruits, and vegetables 

 was exhibited. The flowers in pots were but few, except the fine collections 

 sent by Mr. Page and Mr. Ingram. The cut flowers, in general, were good ; 

 and a handsome collection of pelargoniums were sent by Miss Hale; fine 

 grapes, peaches, and nectarines, by Lord Ashburton ; cherries and goose- 

 bearies, by Mr. Shenton; melons, apricots, gooseberries, currants, cut 

 flowers, and carnations, by Sir Thomas Baring, Bart. ; fine and well-kept old 

 apples, oranges, shaddocks, melons, seeding celsias, and cut flowers, by Col. 

 Wall ; vegetables, flowers, and fruits, by Mr. Wickham ; hot-house and 

 green-house plants, dahlias, roses, cut flowers, peaches, raspberi'ies, gooseber- 

 ries, apples, melons, and vegetables, by the Rev. F. Beadon ; melons, carnations 

 and picotees, by J. Pultney, Esq. ; apricots, gooseberries, and flowers, by 



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