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who have observed the great interest which we have taken in the subject of 

 public gardens since the commencement of the Gardener'' s Magazine, will be 

 able to form some idea of the very high gratification which it is to us to see 

 that they are becoming, in so short a time, so general. — Cond. 



The Sheffield Floricultural and Horticultural Exhibition , which was held on 

 the 14th and 13th of September, in the Sheffield Botanic Gardens, was at- 

 tended by upwards of 1 1,000 persons, including many commercial and pro- 

 fessional gardeners from almost every part of the island. A great many 

 prizes were awarded, the highest of which appears to have been a 13/. cup, to 

 Mr. Widnall, for the best stand of 30 blooms of dahlias. In this stand was in- 

 cluded a new flower, called Dodd's Marj-, which seems to have been allowed by 

 all the florists present to be the finest dahlia known. We shall enter more into 

 detail respecting this show in our annual summary of the provincial societies, and 

 the reader will find a copious account in the Floricultural Magazmehr October. 

 We may observe respecting this Magazine generally, that it is by far the best 

 of the provincial magazines which has yet appeared. There is no attempt in 

 it to palm off" quotations from us, or from the Horticultural Transactions, as 

 original communications; such, for example, as we find in the last number of 

 Harrison's Floricultural Cabinet, where one correspondent, who signs himself 

 W. Hurst, takes the greater part of a page verbatim from the Gardener'' s Maga- 

 zine, and gives it as his own, with the sole addition of " I will continue the 

 subject at some future time. W. Hurst." To which the editor adds, as a 

 postscript, " We shall be glad of any observations on the subject from Mr. 

 Hurst." ! — Id. 



The Pomological Rivals of Lancaster. — At the Lancaster autumnal show of 

 flowers and fruits, which took place Sept. 27., " the two great ' pomological ' 

 rivals, the Rev. T. Macketh and Mr. M. Saulj exhibited, as usual, a great 

 number of the varieties of the apple ; the former having at the present show 

 seventy-eight, and the latter upwards of sixty, different sorts. Two cast-iron 

 garden-chairs, from the foundry of Messrs. Whewell, after a novel and taste- 

 ful design by Mr. Saul, were also exhibited, and excited much attention. — 

 {Kendal Mercury, Oct. 1. 1836.) 



The Kensington Nursery, lately occupied by Wm. Malcolm and Co., has 

 been taken by Mr. Forrest, the landscape-gardener, who is about to erect a 

 splendid new range of glass, and plant single specimens of all the more in- 

 terestmg and valuable hardy trees and shrubs; in short, a select arboretum and 

 fruticetum. We have long recomn)ended this step to the principal London 

 nurserymen, and more especially to the late, and present, Mr, Lee ; being 

 persuaded that, while it would greatly improve the public taste with regard to 

 trees and shrubs, it would contribute to their own benefit in a commercial 

 point of view. — Cond. 



A half-hardy Arboretum is now forming by Mr. Curtis of the Glazenwood Nur- 

 sery, in a small wood, in which the young oak tiuiber is about 30 ft. or 40 ft. high. 

 The kinds planted are chiefly of the more hardy Australian genera, such as 

 Eucalyptus, Jcacia, Leptospermum, Metrosideros, Sec. ; and the object is to 

 ascertain how far these trees and shrubs will endure our climate under favour- 

 able circumstances. — S. C. Glnzenivond, Essex, Oct. 7. 1836. 



M'lller's Nursery, Bristol. — A gentleman, a member of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, a botanist, with a considerable degree 

 of horticultural knowledge, and who has seen many of the nurseries on the 

 Continent, assures us that, in point of display, of general arrangement, and of 

 high order and keeping. Miller's Nursery exceeds all others which he has seen. 

 As a nursery for a stranger to walk in, he considers it the first in Britain, and, 

 perhaps, in Europe. The members of the British Association held a walking 

 conversazione in it, and were very highly gratified. — Cond. 



Wheeler's Nursery, Warminster, now occupied by the grandson, we be- 

 lieve, of the author of Wheeler's Gardener''s Dictionary (published about the 

 middle of the last century), has been recently enlarged, by the purchase of 

 some additional acres ; and glass to a very considerable extent has been 



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