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latter county, and taken the opportunity of going as far as Sheffield, and visit- 

 ing Chatsworth, Bretby Hall, Keddleston, Elvaston Castle, Drayton Manor, 

 Manley Hall, the Sheffield Botanic Garden, that at Birmingham, &c. 



Art. IV. Caledonian Horticultural Society. 



The Summer General Meeting of this Society was held on June 6., at their 

 garden, Inverleith ; and the exhibition of plants was the most splendid, and 

 the promenade the most numerous and brilliant, ever known. The company 

 who visited the garden in the course of the afternoon must have exceeded 

 2,500; and at one time there could not be fewer than 2000 present. Both 

 the lawn and the flower tents have been enlarged since last year ; but the di- 

 rectors will need still farther to extend them ; for the lawn was over-crowded 

 with company, and the fine exotics were too closely crowded on the stages of 

 the tents. 



The awards of prizes were as follows: — For fine shrubby exotics, nur- 

 serymen's prize, to Messrs. Dickson and Sons, Inverleith Nurseries; the plants 

 being Fabiana imbricata, Clematis tricolor, Bordm'a denticulata, 5tatice arborea, 

 Lantana Sellowz7, and Cactus Jenkinsonw. The practical gardener's prize, to 

 Mr. George Stirling, gardener to Lord Melville, Melville Castle, the specimens 

 consisting of Pimelea rosea, P. hispida, E'pacris heteronema, Boron/a denti- 

 culata, .Elichrysum spectabile, and i?uph6rbza speciosa. For fine herbaceous 

 exotics, the nurserymen's prize was also voted to Messrs. Dickson of the In- 

 verleith Nurseries, the plants being Oncidium flexuosum, Sarracem'a psittacina, 

 Gesnena sceptrum, Cattleya Forbesw, Stylidium fasciculatum, and ^nagallis 

 Phillipsw. The practical gardeners' prize, to Mr. David Brewster, gardener to 

 Colonel Lindsay of Balcarres, who produced Campanula garganica, Cineraria (?) 

 britannica, C. picta, Agapanthus umbellatus, Gazania regina, and a new spotted 

 Calceolaria. For fuchsias, premiums were awarded to Mr. James Kelly, In- 

 verleith ; for F. fulgens and globosa major, and to Mr. David Brewster, Bal- 

 carres, for F. Brewstera and globosa. For Cape heaths, two premiums were 

 also voted : the first, to Mr. George Stirling, Melville Castle, whose kinds 

 were jErica ventricosa alba, perspicua, and ?Hiiscaria; and, next, to Mr. John 

 Young, gardener to Sir James Gibson Craig, Riccarton, the species being .Erica 

 cylindrica, tubiflora, ventricosa erecta, and grandiflora. 



The display of pelargoniums or stage geraniums was extensive and beautiful ; 

 and three premiums were awarded; the first to Mr. James Kelly, Inverleith, 

 who exhibited splendidissima, gem, Dennis's perfection, speculum mundi, 

 belle Catharine, and cottager ; the next to Mr. William Rintoul, gardener to 

 James Balfour, Esq., of Whittingham, who exhibited Foster's Jewess, Rendle's 

 alarm, climax, beauty of Ware, Geraldine, and nulli secundus ; and the third 

 to Mr. John Young, gardener to Thomas Oliver, Esq., Newington Lodge, 

 who produced Forsteni ?'6sea, Alicia, gem, amabile splendens, Dennis's per- 

 fection, and Diomede. Several admirable specimens of Tropse N olum tricolorum 

 in flower, attracted much attention. One was trained pyramidally, in a natural 

 and elegant manner, and for this a first premium was voted to Mr. Robert 

 Foulis, gardener to Sir P. C. Durham, of Fordel. Another was fan-trained, 

 and for it a premium was awarded to Mr. Peter Thomson, gardener to J. J. 

 Hope Vere, Esq., of Craigiehall. For a third a premium was voted to Mr. 

 James Mackintosh, gardener to Robert Ferguson, Esq., of Archerfield. The 

 South American verbenas were also very showy, and handsomely spread out 

 on small trellises. Two premiums were voted ; first, to Mr. Kelly, Inverleith, 

 whose kinds were, Avranidna, Tweedi««c, incisa, Melindres, latifolia, Neilk';', and 

 teucrioides ; and next to Mr. John Young, Newington Lodge, who produced 

 V. incisa, Tweedi«H«, latifolia, grandiflora superba, Krr&niana, Tweediffwa 

 superba, and teucrioides. The cinerarias were likewise very brilliant, and 

 partook of novelty. The silver medal was voted to Mr. Brewster, Balcarres, 

 for a collection consisting of C. superba, purpurea, bicolor, and Bain's seedling ; 

 and a premium was awarded to Mr. Kelly for his collection, containing bicolor, 



