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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
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at Ryde, Isle of Wight. The island being rich in variety of autumnal 
berries and foliage, doubtless prompted one of the societies’ most 
generous supporters to offer special prizes for an arrangement in a 
arranged by Miss Lilian Belcher, Barnsley, Ryde, which gained the first 
of the special prizes offered by Mrs. J. O. Brooks. It was an elegant 
arrangement, the pendant twigs of foliage and berries completely 
Big. 2.—A PRIZE BASKET. 
basket, and the competition brought out was such as must have beer- 
gratifying to the donor as well as to the Society, for they formed a very 
conspicuous feature in the Exhibition. Tne basket figured is om 
hiding the body of the basket; Oak, Maple, Ivy, Ampelopsis, and ether 
very highly colourel foliage being used, interspersed with berries of the 
Arbutus, Crataegus, Japan, and Dog Rose, Snowberry, Euonymus 
