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Aug. 25. Mr. Hughes, gardener to C. B. Wall, Esq. ; Mr. Dodd, gardener 

 to Col. Baker; Mr. Christian, gardener to the Earl of Radnor; Mr. Dunbar, 

 gardener to Mrs. Batt; and Mr. Alford, gardener to Thomas King, Esq., 

 were the most successful candidates. (^Salisbury and Wiltshire Herald, Aug. 29.) 



Sept. 10. Mr. Jumber, gardener to A. B. Lambert, Esq., gained the first 

 prize for the best stove plant ; B. Estcourt, Esq., the second and third ; and the 

 Hon. Mrs. Harris, the fourth. We must also mention that a number of 

 plants were sent , from the conservatories of W. W. Salmon, Esq. (not for 

 competition) ; likewise a box of beautiful seedling dahlias, grown by Mr. 

 Downey. (^Salisbury and Winchester Journal, Sept. 12.) 



Salisbury and West of England Dahlia Show. — Sept. 9. This exhibition 

 was an excellent one, and it was numerously and brilliantly attended. Mr, 

 Wheeler of Warminster showed the best seedling. {^Salisbury and Wiltshire 

 Herald, Sept. 26.) 



Marlborough Annual Dahlia Shoiv. — Sept. 18. The best seedlings were 

 raised by Mr. Butler, gardener to Thomas Smith, Esq., Ramsbury, and Mr. 

 Whale, gardener to Charles Bacon, Esq., Elcot House. Mr. Bates of 

 Oxford produced a very superior collection of blooms j but, on finding that 

 the competitors consisted chiefly of amateurs, he, in a very handsome man- 

 ner, declined showing. Mr. Sparry, gardener to G. H. Cherry, Esq., Den- 

 ford House, produced a gourd weighing 1791b., which measured 7 ft. in 

 circumference. The exhibition was very numerously attended by visitors from 

 the town and neighbourhood. {Ibid.} 



Chippenham Dahlia Show. — Sej^f. 11. Mr. Wheeler of Warminster was 

 the most successful candidate : as, for his seedlings of 1834 and 1835, he 

 gained prizes to the value of 8/. The flowers, generally speaking, were very 

 fine. {Salisbury and Winchester Journal, Sept. 12.) 



Yorkshire. — North Biding Horticultural and Floricultural Society. Sep- 

 tember 18. There was a splendid display of dahlias, which was greater than 

 any that had been exhibited since the establishment of the Society. The ex- 

 otic and green-house plants were not so numerous as upon former occasions. 

 The chairman, the Rev. J. W. Mosley, pointed out to the notice of the com- 

 pany the remarkably fine productions of vegetables, which were in great 

 abundance and of the first order, particularly those exhibited by the cot- 

 tagers, whose specimens crowded the table allotted to them. \The York 

 Courant, Oct. 8.) 



West Riding Horticultural Society. — Jidy 15. The arrangement and classi- 

 fication of this show appeared to us excellent, and well adapted to present to 

 the eye of every beholder in all parts of the spacious apartment, a favourable 

 view of the whole collection. A platform, raised at the upper extremity of 

 the room, for the judges who awarded the distribution of the different prizes, 

 and the curators, together with the president and vice-presidents, was sur- 

 mounted by an arch finely festooned and decorated with a tastefully intermin- 

 gled variety of the rarest and most beautiful flowers, in gay and fanciful de- 

 vices; over the centre of the arch was a crown and diadem fashioned in 

 flowers of variegated hues, all of them, as the president subsequently an- 

 nounced, of the culture of Mr. Barratt, proprietor of the botanic and other 

 extensive gardens in the immediate vicinity of Wakefield. Two large pine- 

 apples, one weighing 8f lb., and the other 81b., were shown by Mr. Taylor, 

 from Lady Gordon's of Temple Newsam. Some grapes were exhibited by 

 the gardeners of B. Gaskell, Esq., Thornes House, and J. Hebblethwaite, 

 Esq., Leeds. The specimens of peaches, nectarines, apricots, melons, and, 

 above all, of the oranges and lemons, were extremely fine, as indeed were 

 those of the various other fruits exhibited. The flowers were also very good. 

 {West Riding Herald, July 21.) 



East Riding Horticultural and Floral Show. — May 13. The plants were 

 exhibited in a marquee, the top of which was ornamented with festoons of 

 evergreens, among which were intermingled various flawers and herbaceous 

 plants ; whilst at the end, immediately over the station allotted to the presi- 



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