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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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stormy weather. When shut provision is also made for securing them by 
means of a pin, which can be placed in in a moment and all made secure. 
Mr. John Webster was also recommended a silver medal for some very useful 
and similar frames to those described above. Messrs. W. Richardson & Co. 
have been awarded a bronze medal in this class for useful span-roofed frames. 
Messrs. D. Lowe & Sons, Edinburgh and Manchester, were recommended 
the Society’s bronze medal for a collection of Bmall plant, fruit houses, and 
a conservatory, all being of a useful size for amateurs and small gardeners, 
these structures being light and strongly built. Mr. J. Crispin, 58, Milk 
Street, Bristol, received_the same award ,for ai portable heated propagating 
MISCELLANEOUS EXHIBITS. 
In the classes devoted to miscellaneous subjects there are a great number 
of entries. Particularly noteworthy on stand 34, class 21, is the handy appli¬ 
ance exhibited as a patent bedding and potting barrow by Dr. Horace 
Swete, Baskerville, Worcester. The novelty in this consists in the addition 
of a tray fitted with iron stays and divisions for crocks and soil.to an 
ordinary barrow. Another useful apparatus is shown on stand 51 in the 
model of the transplanting apparatus by C. R. Kelly, landscape gardener, 
Tarporley, Cheshire. This consists of four sides of wood resemblingla tub, 
Pig. 2 .—Mr. A. F. Babkov. (See pige 1.) 
case, which would prove of great service to amateurs for the propaga¬ 
tion of cuttings with but little trouble and expense, and a bronze 
medal for Hunt’s patent automatic ventilator. Messrs. Stewart & Jack have 
been awarded a bronze medal for a small strongly built house, 15 feet by 
9 feet wide, suitable for amateurs and small growers. Messrs. Peel and 
Sons, Wood Green, London, have also received a bronze medal for cheap, 
plain, strongly built amateurs’ structures. For the most meritorious aggre¬ 
gate displays in these classes Messrs. Foster & Pearson have been deservedly 
awarded the Society’s gold medal for a large and highly praiseworthy 
display of horticultural structures of varied sizes and designs. 
Just on going to press we learn that Messrs. Foster & Pearson and 
Messenger & Co. have been granted medals for valves, and Mr. Deard a 
silver medal for dry glazing; the work of determining the merits of the 
various articles in the implement classes is still in progress and cannot be 
recorded this week. 
the sides of which are held together by chains, and resting on a frame of 
wood with rollers underneath. Close by on stand 31 is the useful imp.le- 
mt-nt figured in these pages a short time ago—the turf-lifting machine in¬ 
vented and exhibited by F. T. Drummond, Coton, Bridgenortb, Salop. Use¬ 
ful and convenient forms of tents, garden sests, tarpaulin, and shading are 
shown in variety on stand 26 by Mr. J. Unite, 291, Edgeware Road, London. 
On stand 23 Messrs. J. Weekes & Co. show a number of exhibits of their 
various modes of heating and caloric apparatus. One of the novelties shown 
by this firm is a combined drawing-room grate and boiler. This appears to 
be an exc llent apparatus for amateurs who require not only a means of 
heating tbeir dwelling rooms, but also their small house from one apparatus. 
Messrs. Bennett Bros, of Liverpool exhibit on stand 22 a number of articles, 
including examples of wirework, garden seats, boilers, stoves, and tents. 
Stand 20 is occupied with an interesting collection of wirework, flower stakes 
&c., exhibited by Messrs Brookes & Co., 4, Cateaton Street, Manchester. 
