THE FLORIST. 
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MIDDLETON, NEAR MANCHESTER, AURICULA AND 
POLYANTHUS EXHIBITION FOR AMATEURS. 
The thirty-third meeting of the Middleton Amateur Florists took 
place on April 24th, at the Masons’ Arms, Market Place. A nu¬ 
merous company, consisting of the florists of the town and neigh¬ 
bourhood, including Sheffield, Rochdale, Manchester, Oldham, Ash¬ 
ton-under-Lyne, Denton, Bury, Pastwick, &c. &c., attended, fully 
proving the interest that still attaches to these early harbingers of 
spring in that district. Auriculas were exhibited in splendid perfec¬ 
tion : Booth’s Freedom, Litton’s Imperator, and Cheetham’s Lanca¬ 
shire Hero, bearing away the palm. Polyanthuses were rather on 
the wane ; it is, however, gratifying to state, that the exhibition was 
better this year than it has been for several years past. The follow¬ 
ing awards were made :— 
Green Edges :—Booth’s Freedom, Colonel Lee; Litton’s Impera¬ 
tor, ditto ; Leigh’s Colonel Taylor, Mr. Robt. Lancashire ; Yates’ 
IMorris Green Hero, Colonel Lee; Pollitt’s Highland Laddie , Mr. 
Robt. Lancashire ; Pollitt’s Standard of England, Colonel Lee; Ash¬ 
ton’s Prince of Wales, Mr. J. Buckley ; Ollier’s Lady Ann Wilbraham, 
Mr. J. Heap. 
Grey Edges •—Cheetham’s Lancashire Hero, Mr. D. Jackson; 
Sykes’ Complete, Colonel Lee; Kenyon’s Ringleader, C. Ball, Esq. ; 
Fletcher’s Ne-plus-ultra, Mr. J. Heap; Grimes’ Privateer, Mr. Robt. 
Lancashire; Kent’s Queen Victoria, Colonel Lee; Waterhouse’s Con¬ 
queror of Europe, Mr. D. Moores; Beeston’s Fair Flora, C. Ball, 
Esq. 
White Edges :—Taylor’s Favourite, C. Ball, Esq.; Potts’ Regu¬ 
lator, Mr. W. Kent; Cheetham’s Countess of Wilton, Mr. Thomas 
Lord; Seedling, Mr. J. Heap ; Lee’s Bright Venus, Colonel Lee ; 
Taylor’s Glory, Mr. D. Jackson; Seedling, Mr. J. Buckley; Ash¬ 
worth’s Regular, ditto. 
Selfs:—N etherwood’s Othello , C. Ball, Esq.; Whitaker’s True 
Blue, Mr. Wm. Kent; Clegg’s Blue Bonnet, Mr. D. Jackson; Red- 
mund’s Metropolitan, Mr. Robt. Lancashire; Scholes’ Ned Lud, C. 
Ball, Esq.; Berry’s Lord Primate, Mr. Thomas Lord ; Grimes’ Flora's 
Flag, C. Ball, Esq.; Oddey’s Rest, Mr. Wm. Kent. 
Polyanthuses: — Maud’s Beauty of England, Mr. J. Heap; 
Pearson’s Alexander, Mr. Robt. Lancashire ; Hufton’s Lord Lincoln, 
ditto ; Gibbon’s Royal Sovereign, Colonel Lee ; Clegg’s Lord John 
Russell, Mr. D. Jackson; Moore’s Freedom, Mr. J. Buckley; Crow- 
shaw’s Exile, C. Ball, Esq. ; Seedling, Mr. J. Chadwick; Seedling, 
Mr. Wm. Kent; Nicholson’s King, Mr. Thomas Lord; Ollier’s 
Cheshire Favourite, Colonel Lee ; Buck’s George the Fourth, ditto. 
