LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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This twelfth number completes the first volume of this beautifully- 
executed work; to which is added, the Index to the Plates, a finely- 
engraved Title-page and coloured Vignette, together with a Dedication 
to the Princess Victoria, Preface, &c. 
LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The second exhibition for the season took place on Saturday, and 
never was a court more crowded. We do not recollect on any previous 
occasion so great a number of visiters, notwithstanding the threatening 
aspect of the morning. They who braved the noon were repaid by the 
the tranquil serenity of the evening ; and the assembly lingered in the 
gardens much beyond the usual hour. The multitudes of flowering 
shrubs now in their beauty, the plants cultured and those of sponta¬ 
neous growth, that decked the edges of the ponds and the grassy lawns, 
seemed to have an attraction equal to the more selected specimens 
beneath the exhibition awnings. 
The prizes were awarded in the following orderthe first gold 
Banksian medal to Mr. Lane, gardener to J. H= Palmer, Esq.; F. H. 
S., for a collection of Alstrcemerias. The same gentleman obtained a 
silver Knightian medal for specimens of Amaryllidce, and another for a 
collection of ferns, of many varieties of frond, and displaying beauti¬ 
fully beneath the interesting processes of inflorescence, to repudiate 
the title of their class. A rare Chinese plant obtained a fourth 
medal. 
The second gold Banksian medal was awarded to Mr. W. Barnes, 
gardener to G. W. Norman, Esq , for a superb collection of greenhouse 
plants. A collection of Alstrcemerias, second only to those of Mr. 
Lane, secured a large silver medal for Mr. Scott, gardener to C. Bar¬ 
clay, Esq. Mr. Green, gardener to Lady Antrobus, obtained one large 
silver medal for Calceolarias; a second for specimens of Cacti . 
A large silver medal was adjudged to Mr. Dennis, of Chelsea, for 
Melo-cacti; one to Mr. Brown, gardener to Messrs. Credland and 
Clews, for Grapes; a second for Cucumbers; and a silver medal for 
Strawberries. Sigismund Ruiker, Esq., for a display of stove Orchi- 
dece, obtained a large silver medal: a silver Knightian for an Asiatic 
plant not named; and a silver Banksian for a specimen of a greenhouse 
plant. To Mr. Rollison, of Tooting, was adjudged a large silver medal 
for an American Orchis. One to Mr. Gaines for Pelargoniums; a 
silver Knightian for Calceolarias; and another for Heartsease. The 
