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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
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to a 1 within a radius of six miles, for tweaty-four blooms, twelve incurv d 
and twelve Japanese. There were five competitors, and the contest was a 
KO°d one. Mr F. \ enn, gard-ner to W. Sturiy, E q., Paix Hill Park, 
handheld, was the winner with fine well-stsged (dooms. Mr F Godbv 
S nJ mTr '\ Dt : !Y, ith ( er M° 0 :^Th e Oaks, Burgess Hill, was a good second’, 
and Mr. Roberts third. Had the latter gentleman staged bis blooms with as 
“ U i C u n re as e , nn he have occupied a different position, for he 
na 1 both size and substance. 
Fruit-F or two bunches of black Grapes Mr. Feist was first with go rd 
Gros dolman, Mr. Icglis being second with Aliean' e. Mr. Geo. Warren, gar- 
dener to Mrs. Hankey. Balcombe Place, Balcombe, was the only exhibitor of 
wh te Grapes Mr. Harding, gardens to B. B. Hodgson, E q., was fiist for 
two dishes of dessert Pears with very fine fruits of Nouveau Poiteau, and 
ment in the quality of the exhibits without exception. Groups of mis¬ 
cellaneous plants were of high merit, and those of Chrysanthemums and 
oiiage plants were superior to thos9 of past years. Specimen plants were 
not quite so numerous, but there was a general improvement in quality. 
1 ne classes devoted to cut flowers were well filled, and the flowers were 
of very high quality, especially those exhibited by Mr. Gill, gardener to W. 
Oldham, Esq., of Gainsborough. These deservedly took the first prize in 
the open daeses, and included the best bioom in the Show, a fine example 
of Madame C. Audiguier. Mr. Oldman was also awarded the National 
Chrysanthemum Society’s certificite for the excellence of his exhibits. 
Oih r hne blooms were shown by W. Ashley, Esq., who took five first prizes 
and one second; C. E. Marfleet, Esq, who obtained four first prizes, in- 
c.uding the prize for the best incurvtd cut bloom in the Show a superb 
Fig. 5o.— CATTLEYA LAWRENCIANA ROSEA SUPERBA. (See page 448). 
Duchfsse d Angouleme, tut it is questionable if the palate bad been appealed 
to if they Would have been superior, and Mr. Stiingei's B urre Diel and 
G neial Todtleben, wnich were placed second. For four d sbes of Apples 
ihere was a good competit'on, Mr. F. Downing took premier place his 
Blenheim Pippin and Mere de Menage being fine. 
Theie was aketn contest with trays of vegetibl-s. Mr. Manton main- 
tau mg his leadership in ih s department, but was closely followed by Mr. 
Stiiuger a.d Mr. M.tchell. There were tight eotr'es. dhe amateurs and 
cottagers, who make one of the best cottagers’ summer show sin the county, 
do nutseem to have quite entered into the spirit of thU autumn campaign. 
Mr. Geo. Wa-ren sent, not for competition, over thirty dishes of fruit; and 
Mr. Haskell, ga dener E. Noe', Esq , Lyndbursc, Warninglid, sent a similar 
exhib t of Pnmulas, a good strain of various colours, a blue o_e being 
noticeabl-.. 
LINCOLN.— November 15th and 16th. 
The fifth annual Exhibition was held in the N-w Corn Exchange as in 
past years, and the Committee are to be congratulated upon the improve- ‘ 
specimen cf the Hero of Stoke Newington ; T. C. Bourne, Esq., who took 
one first and five second prizes, one of the finest specimens of Mr. Bunn 
ev r seen at the Show being included in his collection; and by Septimus 
Lowe, Esq., Thomas Bell, Esq., and Mr. G. R. Brailsford. In the amateur 
classes Mr. E. B>evors carried nearly everything before him. Mr. Herring, 
gardener to A. Shuttlewortb, Esq., Hartsholme Hall, exhibited a very 
meritorious collection of cut flowers not for competition, and these were 
r’pservtdly awarded the National Society’s certificate. N. Clayton, E-’q., 
. J. Warrener, Esq., and Messrs. Pennell & Sons exhibited beautiful groups 
of plants not Lr competition, and these we e highly commended. Fruits 
wire well shown and in good condition. 
The competition in the plant classes as above indicated was not very 
strong, and for the groap of Chrysanthemums and other plants arranged 
fr.r effect in a semicircle, it r-sted between Sept. Lowe, Esq., and H. 
Greenbatn, Esq. (gardener, Mr. Foster), the former’s, which contained some 
very fins Chrysanthemum blooms, taking first honours. An objection 
was lodged against it on the ground that it wa9 not arranged within the 
prescribed space, but as the objection was handed in after time it was not 
