622 SOCIETIES HORTICULTURE, ETC. 
III.— SOCIETIES, 
CONNECTED WITH HORTICULTURE AND NATURAL HISTORY. 
LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Tlie Anniversary Meeting of the Society took place as usual on the 1st of May, when the 
various officers were unanimously elected to fulfil their duties for another year ; the report of 
the Auditors was read, and copies distributed to the Fellows of the Society. 
The finances are now considered to be in a satisfactory state, and from the re-action which 
has evidently taken place in the atTairs of the Society, and the interest which has been of late 
manifested in its welfare, we hope that ere long its difficulties will be entirely dispelled, and 
that it will exercise its beneficial influence with still greater vigour. Two papers were read 
on the heating of hotbeds through the agency of hotwater, thereby rendering their renovation 
unnecessary ; the construction of the two were the principal points of difference. In the ex- 
hibitions during the past month we have noticed, as the most prominent plants, Beaumontia 
grandiflora. Erica arborea, and E. mediterranea, Clivia nobilis, Hovea Celsii, Azalea sinensis, 
Templetonia retusa, Erythronium jluteuni, Gesnerias, Calceolarias, Tulips from Mr. Groom's 
fine collection at Walworth ; a plant of the Eiythrina Crista-Galli, six feet high, profusely 
covered with blossoms ; Pceonia Moutan and its varieties ; a handsome Seedling Camellia 
raised by Mr. Wells of Redleaf, and a collection of Heartsease of the finest colours, from Mr- 
Young of Epsom. Very excellent specimens of cultivation have also appeared in the form of 
Cucumbers, Leeks, Flanders Spinach, Knight's protecting Brocoli, Lettuces, &c. 
DEVON AND EXETER FLORIST'S SOCIETY. 
The first Exhibition for this season took place at Congdon's Subscription Rooms in Exeter , 
on Wednesday, May 2nd, when the attendance of Gentry was such as must have been highly 
gratifying to its members j there was a good show of Auriculas, Polyanthuses, Greenhouse, 
Herbaceous, and other plants and flowers, which together made a very splendid appearance. 
BROMLEY HOUSE SOCIETY, NOTTINGHAM. 
The first Exhibition of this Society took place on Wednesday, April 25th ; the display of 
Auriculas and and Polyanthuses were very fine, there was a most beautiful and novel selection 
of flowers, from the greenhouse of Lord Rancliffe ; also some very fine ones from Mr. Pearson, 
Mr. Spencer, and Mr. Gresham : the supply of fruits and vegetables were most excellent ; the 
company were numerous and fashionable : we were glad to see the worthy Patron, Lord Mid- 
dleton, and many of the Vice-Presidents, and Ladies and Gentlemen of the town and neigh- 
bourhood. 
CHESTERFIELD FLORISTS' SOCIETY. 
The Society of Florists held their Annual Exhibition of Tulips at Mr. Pinder's, the King 
and Milner, High-Street, Chesterfield, on Monday, May 28th, 1832, when a good supply of 
flowers were sent in for competition, and a number of prizes awarded. 
BECCLES HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
This Society, under the presidency of the Etui of Stradbroke, held its first Meeting in the 
Assembly Room, on Wednesday, the 9th of May. Tlie attendance of ladies and gentlemen 
vyas vei-y great ; amongst whom were Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart, and the Miss Bacons, with a 
party of their friends; Sir Thomas Gooch, &c. &c. The day proved fine, and the specimens 
exhibited were very superior to what could have been expected from a newly established 
Society at this time of the year. Mr. G. Thurtell, notwithstanding the lateness of the season? 
produced nineteen superb hyacinths, several choice varieties of the heartseases, a brace of 
magnificent cucumbers, a bunch of asparagus, of flfty-one heads, weighing four pounds ten 
ounces, and a double polyanthus, unique and of great beauty, and consequently justly carried 
the prizes for all that w ere offered ; Mr. J Toll, of Keswick, produced eighteen pots of very 
fine auriculas, gaining the first and second prizes ; a dish of Keene's seedling strawberries 
from Sir T. Gooch's gardens were much admired ; a dish of apples from E. C. Sliarpin, Esq- 
and also the cardilac pears from Mr. R. Baas, of Chedlestone, were in a fine state of preserva- 
tion ; the fruits and vegetables in general did great credit to their growers ; there were also 
some beautiful flowers. Mr. Francis, of Beccles, exhibited nine pots of auriculas, and gained' 
with well-earned merit, the tluice offered prizi'S. 
