682 Provincial Horticultural Societies : — 



Whitefield Pansy Show.— Sept. 5. See Gard. Gaz., 1840, p. 616. 



Leicestershire. — Leicestershire Floricultural and Horticidtural Society. — 

 Spring show. Sec Ibid., 1840, p. 399. — June]. See Ibid., p. 4^58. — Aug. 

 7. See Ibid., p. 521. 



Hinckley Hor/ictdtural and Floricidtural Society.- — Sept. 25. See Ibid., 1840, 

 p. 663. 



Melbourne Floricidturnl and Horticidtural Societij. — Sept. 22. See Ibid., 

 1840, p. 615. 



Melbourne Gooseberry Shoiv. — Aug. 3. See Ibid., 1840, p. 584. 



Lincolnshire. — Grantham Floral and Horticultural Society. — Aug. 8. and 

 Sept. 26. See Ibid., 1839, p. 773. 



Grantham Carnation Show. — Aug. 6. See Ibid., 1840, p. 584. 



Horncastle Floricidtural and Horticultural Society. — June 30. See Ibid., 

 1840, p. 458. 



Stamford Floricidtural and Horticultural Society. — April 29. See Ibid., 1840, 

 p. 327. — Summer show. See Ibid., p. 458. — Aug. 12. See Ibid., p. 527. 



Middlesex. — Hampstead Florists' Society. — June 16. See Ibid., 1840, p. 

 md.—Sejit. 22. See Ibid., p. 655. 



Metropolitan Society of Florists. — Oct. 13. 



Middleton Gooseberry Show. — Aug. 8. See Ibid., 1840, p. 584. 



Middleton Tulip Shoiv.—See Ibid., 1840, p. 458. 



South London Horticultural Society. — June 16. See Ibid., 1840, p. 394. — 

 July 28. Ibid., p. 489.— Sept. 15. Ibid., p. 598. 



South Walworth Amateur Floricultural Society. — Sept. 21. See Ibid., 1840, 

 p. 615. 



West London Amateur Dahlia Society. — Sej)t. 14. See Ibid., 1840, p. 615. 



Norfolk. — Lynn Horticultural Society. — May 13. See Ibid , 1840, p. 351. 

 — July 29. Ibid., 521. 



Norfolk and Norwich Horticultural Society. — May 27. See Ibid., 1840, p. 

 351. — Dahlia show. Ibid., p. 598. 



Norwich Dahlia Show. — See Ibid., 1840, p. 615. 



Northumberland. — Felton Floricultural Society. — May 5. 1840. See 

 Ibid., p. 311. 



Felton Florists' Society.— TxiW^^ show. See Ibid., 1840, p. 399. — June 29. 

 Ibid., p. 425. — Phik show. Ibid., p. 489.— Aug. 24. Ibid., p. 569. 



Hexham Floricidtural and Horticidtural Society. — Sept. 16. See Ibid., p. 633. 



Newcastle Botanical and Horticultural Society. — A general meeting of this 

 Society was held in the Music Hall, Nelson Street, March 7. {Newcastle 

 Courant, March 12.) 



The second meeting of this Society took place, Aug. 28. {Ibid., Sept. 4.) 



Nottinghamshire. — Beeston and Chilwell Flower Shoiv. — Spring show. 

 See Gard. Gaz., 1840, p. 3Ql.—Aug. 4. Ibid., p. 521. 



Nottingham Floricultural and Horticultural Society. — Spring show. See 

 Ibid., 1840, p. 344. 



Old Lenton Gooseberry Show. — See Ibid., 1840, p. 522. 



Retford and Bawtry Horticultural Society. — Spring show. See Ibid., 1840, 

 p. 311. 



Oxfordshire. — Oxfordshire Horticidtural Society. — April 30. 1840. See 

 Ibid., p. 291.— July 1. Ibid., p. 413.— July 28. Ibid., fp. 507. 



Shropshire. — Market Drayton Horticultural and Floricultural Society. — 

 May 7. See Ibid., 1840, p. 312. 



Salop Floricultural and Horticultural Society. — Summer show. See Ibid., 

 p. 583. 



Somersetshire. — ■ Bath Royal Horticultural and Botanical Society. — The 

 first exhibition for the season took place on April 14, at the Society's Gar- 

 dens in Victoria Park, of which it may be desirable to give a brief description. 

 In so doing, we cannot but express our admiration at the consummate ability 

 which has been displayed in their arrangement. The north side of the Bo- 

 tanical Garden is laid out in a large oval shape, and contains an illustration of 



