674- Provincial Horticultural Societies : — 



the foreground and middle distance. One of these views may 

 be seen in Jig. 175. and others have been already given in p. 

 636. 651. 653. 667. 



The Flower-Garden (25, in fig. 165. in p. 656, 657.) is laid out, 

 as the ground plan indicates, in beds, everywhere bordered with 

 slate : a flower-garden of this kind, with the walks gravelled, 

 having the advantage of rendering the flowers accessible to 

 ladies immediately after rain, when they are often in their great- 

 est beauty, and, at all events, in their greatest freshness and 

 vigour; an advantage which is not obtained when the beds are 

 on turf. There are also flower-beds on turf in other parts of 

 the grounds : but these are filled with roses, dahlias, and other 

 large-growing plants in masses, the beauties of which do not 

 require to be closely examined. 



The Management of the garden, farm-yard, and everything 

 except the interior of the dwelling-house, is committed to 

 Mr. Pratt, who is not only an admirable manager, but an excel- 

 lent gardener; as the number of prizes which he has obtained at 

 numerous floricultural exhibitions, as well as the beautiful man- 

 ner in which he cultivates rare plants, and grows the more ordi- 

 nary flowers and garden produce, amply testifies. He is also 

 a singularly modest unassuming man. There is scarcely an 

 operation connected with the management of a grass farm, and 

 the treatment of all the various kinds of live stock which we 

 have noticed, that Mr. Pratt is not as successful in performing, 

 as he is in cultivating plants. 



Bayswater, August, 1839. 



Art. II. Provincial Horticultural, Botanical, Floricultural, Agricul- 

 tural, and Zoological Societies. 



Our notices of these societies, this year, commence with November 1. 1838, 

 and extend to November 1. 1839 ; and they are intended to be little more than 

 the registration of their names. The reason is, they have for the most part 

 been fully reported in the Gardener's Gazette, a journal which is, or ought to 

 be, in the hands of all our readers. Whenever a newspaper or letter has been 

 sent us, containing information respecting any society, we have given that 

 newspaper or letter as an authority ; but in all other cases we have merely 

 given the title of the society, and a reference to the page in the Gardener's 

 Gazette where its transactions will be found in detail. 



ENGLAND. 



Bedfordshire. — Bigglesiuade Horticultural Society. — For spring show, 

 see Gard. Gaz., 1839, p. 148. — Sept. 23. See Ibid., p. 676. 



Bedford open Dahlia Shoiv. — Sept. 17. See Ibid., p. 693. 



Berkshire. — Farringdon Horticultural Society. — Spring show. See Ibid., 

 p. 396. 



Windsor and Eton Royal Horticultural Society. — July 13. See Ibid., 

 p. 453. 



Sunbury Royal Horticultural Society. — Sept. 17. See Ibid., p. 645. 



