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Mai/ 19. This was an excellent show. The green- house plants were 

 remarkably fine, as were the tulips. The broccoli and rhubarb were of a 

 superior description. The prize flowers and fruits were placed on a table 

 fronting the chair; and two immense bouquets of hardy flowers were erected 

 in front of the orchestra. The prize trays of pansies attracted extraordinary 

 admiration ; and it was with difficulty they could be approached, so great was 

 the press around them. Thomas Price, Esq., took the chair, and, among other 

 things, observed, that the judges regretted that a beautiful new species of the 

 Passiflora, from John Smith, Esq., of Grimstone, was too much blown to 

 prevent them awarding to it a prize. They, however, requested him to call 

 the attention of the company to it, and also to several other specimens of the 

 same flower from that gentleman. [We should be glad to know the name of 

 this new passion-flower.] The judges also directed the attention of the 

 meeting to a tray, from Mr. Fox of Bramham, consisting of twenty-four 

 seedling mimuluses, a flower which had recently been much cultivated : the 

 centre flower was one of the most perfect of its kind. There was a new 

 seedling petunia, a box of seedling pansies, and two seedling calceolarias, 

 from the same gentleman. He was requested to call attention to a dish of 

 black Frontignac grapes, from Mrs, Hornor. He could himself bear testi- 

 mony to the excellent management of the grapery at the Grange, having 

 recently gone ovei- it; also to a specimen of Wistana sinensis, from the 

 green-house of Alderman Hearon. (Yorkshire Gazette, May 21.) 



Oct. 6. This was the closing exhibition for the season, and, perhaps, the 

 most successful one. The cut flowers were much admired, and in the greatest 

 profusion. Messrs. Backhouse, the eminent nurserymen of York, received a 

 silver medal for the bouquets furnished by them. Among the numerous 

 articles worthy of attention were two plates of grapes, raised without fire ; 

 also an elegant basket of roses, from Lady Howden ; and some fine specimens 

 of the Passiflora from J. Smith, Esq., of Grimston. On the raised centre table 

 were placed the stove, green-house, and hardy plants ; and, considering the 

 season of the year, these were very showy, many of them being in flower. On 

 the left were placed the dahlias, which looked tolerably well. On the right 

 were fruits and vegetables ; these were truly excellent, and afforded one of the 

 best possible proofs of the value of these societies, by improving those useful 

 and every-day products of nature. Two splendid bouquets, in pyramidal 

 form, garnished the orchestra ; near which were some stately stove-plants 

 from the hot-houses of Mr. Smith. In front of the gallery were placed the 

 words "York Horticultural Society," formed of flowers ; the first word 

 in dahlias, the second in French marygolds, and the last in China asters : the 

 effect was very beautiful, and reflected credit on the ingenuity and good taste 

 of Mr. Foster, gardener to Lord Downe, by whom it was executed. We 

 also noticed a tray of pansies, which looked very beautiful at this period of 

 the year, (Fork Herald, Oct. 8,} 



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Anglesey Horticultural Society. — July 1.3. The show-room was most taste- 

 fully set out with garlands and festoons of flowers, and which gave to the 

 whole a most beautiful appearance : for this the Society was mainly indebted 

 to Mr. Shaw, gardener to Lady Williams, of the Friars. The fruits, flowers, 

 plants, shrubs, vegetables, &c., were arranged in admirable order ; the con- 

 fusion attendant on many of these exhibitions was totally avoided. The 

 cucumbers, melons, grapes, peaches, stove plants, specimens of heath, green- 

 house plants, pansies, and vegetables, were peculiarly fine. There were some 

 splendid grapes and melons from Kinmel Park, the seat of Lord Dinorben ; 

 not brought for competition, but merely for exhibition, which attracted uni- 

 versal attention : the growth of them was highly creditable to Mr. Forrest. 

 The numerous fashionable parties which crowded round the table evinced the 

 interest taken in this Society ; and we trust it will go on increasing in pro- 



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