C PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Melons. Mr. Crump, Blenheim, secured the third prize ; and Mr. 

 Howe, Benham Court, Newbury, the fourth. 



IMPLEMENTS AND SUNDRIES. 



The show of horticultural buildings, mowing machines, and 

 other garden requisites was scarcely so extensive as usual. The first 

 to be noticed was a well-built span-roof plant house, erected by 

 the Messrs. Poster and Pearson, Beeston, Notts. It is a combination 

 of wood and iron, and is very light and well ventilated on the im- 

 proved lantern system. This house is rendered gay with many of 

 the noted Chilwell varieties of Zonal Pelargoniums, and near this 

 are two highly useful span-roof portable pits also made on a very 

 good principle, and received the award of a medal. Mr. W. Rich- 

 ardson of the Meadow Foundry Company, Mansfield, arranged a 

 great variety of iron fountains, vases, garden seats, and rollers, 

 also an improved form of throttle valves. The advantages 

 attending the use of this valve is, that the seat and the valve 

 can be easily removed and repairs effected without any inter- 

 ference with the pipes. Messrs. Johnson Brothers and Co,, 

 6, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London, exhibited examples of 

 portable fencing, and also specimens of their methods of roof- 

 glazing with plate glass. Mr. W. Clark, 232, Oxford Street, sub- 

 mitted their patent grass cutters, which are made on the same 

 principle as horse clippers, and will be useful to owners of very 

 small gardens, and for certain positions in larger establishments. 

 Mr. Watson, St. Alban's Nurseries, exhibited specimens of his 

 rather novel guinea suspension boiler, which is said to be 

 powerful, and is besides very simply constructed, and easily 

 set or rather hung. Messrs. Waite and Huggins, London, exhibited 

 their Excelsior mowing machines in various sizes in an improved 

 form and received a medal. Messrs. Joseph Davis and Co., London, 

 showed a number of their new barometers. Messrs. J. Thomas 

 and Co., The Paddington Iron and Wire Works, had a very 

 extensive assortment of wire flower stands, hanging baskets, aviaries, 

 archways, garden seats, and mowing machines, all being specialties 

 of this firm. Mr. J. C. Fox sent rustic summer houses. Messrs. 

 Weeks exhibited one of their powerful patent duplex boilers ; and 



