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COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
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CALEDONIAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The Spring Quarterly Meeting was held in the Society’s 
Garden, Inverleith, on the 13th instant. Colonel Madden 
in the chair. 
On this occasion the following new Members were elected : 
—Alexander Finlay, Esq., Castle Toward; Matthew Stewart, 
Esq., 28, Hanover-street. 
In terms of a Report from the Prize Committee, Pre¬ 
miums were awarded as follows :— 
For the best twelve Hyacinths produced by Nurserymen 
there were five competitors. The Silver Medal was awarded, 
as first prize, to Messrs. J. Dickson and Sons, Inverleith, who 
produced the following kinds:—Laurens Koster, Howard, 
Alba Superbissima, Blocksberg, Grand Vidette (white and 
blue), Orondatus, Voltaire, Grand Lilias, Hercules, Lord 
Wellington, Maria Catherina, and Charles Dickens. A se¬ 
cond premium was voted to Messrs. P. Lawson and Son, 
Golden Acres, for Nimrod, La Tour d’Amerique, Herman, 
Capiola, Mont Blanc, Grand Vidette (blue), Miss Ainsworth, 
Grand Lilias, Lord Wellington, Charles Dickens, Heroine, 
and Cochinelle. 
For the best six Hyacinths produced by practical gar¬ 
deners there were five competitors. The Silver Medal was 
awarded, as first prize, to Mr. James Henderson, gardener to 
C. K. Sivewright, Esq., Cargilfield, for finely grown plants of 
Lord Wellington, Orondatus, Laurens Koster, Grand Vidette 
(blue and white), and Baron Tuyll. A second premium was 
voted to Mr. James Douglas, gardener to John Russell, Esq., 
South Bank, Canaan, for Lord Wellington, Lord Grey, Ro¬ 
salie, Charles Dickens, La Tour d’Auvergne, and Prince 
Albert. 
For Heaths three premiums were awarded; the first (Silver 
Medal), to Mr. John Smith, gardener to Viscount Melville, 
Melville Castle, for a splendid plant of Erica hyernalis, four- 
and-a-half feet through and three-and-a half feet in height; 
the second to Mr. J. Fowler, gardener to J. M'Murray. Esq., 
Glenesk, for a fine plant of the same variety; and the third 
to Mr. J. Lockhart, gardener to R. Dundas, Esq., of Arniston ; 
also for E. liyemalis. 
For Azaleas two prizes were awarded; the first to Mr. 
Lockhart Arniston, for Egertonii, and the second to Mr. 
Allan Cameron, gardener to Samuel Hay, Esq., Trinity Cot¬ 
tage, for Fulgens. 
For the best Rhododendron the prize was awarded to Mr. 
Cameron, Trinity Cottage, for a hybrid named Diversum, A 
second premium was voted to Mr. Henderson, Cargilfield, for 
a pale variety of Nobleanum. 
For the best six Camellia blooms there were seven com¬ 
petitors, and two prizes were awarded; the first to Mr. 
John Laing, gardener to the Earl of Rosslyn, Dysart House, 
for fine blooms of Doublo white, Palmer’s Perfection, 
Princess Bacciochi, Duchess of Northumberland, Elata, and 
Imbricata ; and the second to Mr. David Fowler, gardener to 
James Tytler, Esq., Woodhouselee House, for Double white, 
Feasstii, Imbricata, Jeffersoni, Prattii, and Alba fimbriata. 
For the best Camellia plant (for which there were four 
competitors) the Silver Medal was awarded to Mr. Lockhart, 
Arniston, for a finely-marked plant of Donkelaarii. A second 
premium was voted to Mr. Cameron, Trinity Cottage, for the 
same variety. 
For Cinerarias the prize was gained by Mr. Thomas Reid, 
gardener to William Wilson, Esq., Broomfield, Blackball, for 
Bessy and Cerito. A seond premium was assigned to Mr. 
Lockhart, Arniston, for Wellington and Pauline. 
The prize for the best Stove or Greenhouse Plant was 
awarded to Mr. Lockhart, Arniston, who produced a fine 
plant of PuUenata snbnmbellala. 
For the best two hardy Herbaceous Plants (grown in pots) 
there were four competitors, and two premiums were awarded; 
the first to Mr. Douglas, South Bank, for Astilbc jnponica 
and Dielytra spectabilis; and the second to Mr. James Mit¬ 
chell, gardener to Lady Keith, Ravelston, for Epimedium 
violaceum and Hellcborus Olympieus. 
For Savoys two premiums were awarded; the first to Mr, 
Lockhart, Arniston, for Green Cape ; and the second to Mr, 
Reid, Broomfield. 
The prize for Leeks was awarded to Mr. Mitchell, 
Ravelston. 
There were four competitors in Rhubarb, and two pre- 
i miums were awarded—the. first to Mr. John Porterfield, 
J Upper Hermitage, for Victoria ; and the second to Mr. John 
Woolley, gardener to Charles M'Larcn, Esq., Moreland Cot¬ 
tage, Grange Loan. 
On this occasion a few extra productions not intended for 
: competition were placed on the tables for exhibition only, 
i Mr. Laing, Dysart House, exhibited, in fine condition, a 
splendid specimen of Rhododendron Dalhousitr, grafted on a 
straight stem of R. ponticum. The plant stands ten feet 
high, has twenty-two trusses of flowers, each truss consist¬ 
ing of from three to seven blooms. For this fine specimen 
the highest award of the Society was given to Air. Laing. 
From the garden of Isaac Anderson, Esq., Maryfield, an 
interesting seedling hybrid Rhododendron in bloom, raised 
between R. da uric um and Formosum; from C. Iv. Sivewright, 
Esq., Cargilfield, a collection of beautiful Chinese Primroses; 
I from Messrs. Cunningham, Fraser, and Co., a basket of 
Cyclamens; from Samuel llav, Esq., Trinity Cottage, Rho- 
\ dodendron Kniyhtianum and Epacris Iceviyata; from Air. 
I James Gordon, Niddrie House, fine Mushrooms grown in 
pots, for which a Certificate of Alerit was granted; and from 
Air. Arthur Caldor, Scaclifle, a collection of Apples in excel¬ 
lent condition. 
CONSEQUENCES. 
By the Authoress of “ My Flowers.” 
(Continued from To!. XT'., paye 309.) 
I must invite my readers to transport themselves in imagi¬ 
nation to a very sunny and hot situation in Bath, where, in 
a roomy, but exquisitely dirty lodging, Air. and Airs. Gros- 
venor had for some years resided, and where their span of 
life was passing away in darkness on the one side, and bitter¬ 
ness on the other. 
I believe, verily, that the fall of man is never so plainly 
and awfully set forth, or his restoration to the divine image 
so sweetly and blessedly pourtrayed, as in the estate of 
matrimony. A happy, holy matrimony,mysteriously shadows 
out the union between “ Christ and the Church;” and it was 
meant to impart as much of earthly happiness as could sur¬ 
vive the fall: but a worldly, unhappy marriage,may truly be 
compared to the “weeping and gnashing of teeth,” where 
“ the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” It 
would give me unbounded pleasure, if all my married readers 
could say, with brightening eyes, “ TJ'e married ‘ in the 
Lord.’ * 
Airs. Grosvenor’s mind gave way under multiplied vexa¬ 
tions and irritations, with nothing to soothe or allure her 
to better things. Airs. Griffiths was unceasingly kind, but 
she could do her no further good than feed her secretly 
in the kitchen, or interpose during a burst of fury from her 
husband. Upon one occasion she rushed into the room 
when the uplifted poker would have fallen on the head of 
the defenceless wife, and her stout arm and undaunted spirit 
wrenched it from the startled husband, who would have been, 
in one more minute, a murderer ! Air. Grosvenor could not 
understand a failing memory and growing childishness. They 
came on so gently, and his own intellect was so slow to re¬ 
ceive impressions, that he treated as perverseness and con¬ 
tention, that which was only imbecility tinged with former 
characteristics, and the tempests that raged in their apart¬ 
ments kept poor Airs. Griffiths in terror by day and by night. 
Airs. Grosvenor, as the weaker vessel, felt the storms of 
her lifetime very sensibly as age advanced. Her situation, 
from the time they settled in Bath, was calculated to make 
matters worse. A Unitarian husband, a Popish landlady, 
and a dirty lodging, were quite enough to hasten, if not pro¬ 
duce, aberration of mind; and Air. Grosvenor’s treatment 
: very soon caused her to become totally childish with regard 
to present events. Yet it is wonderful to observe how such 
a calamity could exist, with recollection of former days. She 
could remember everything that had happened in her youth, 
and could repeat the same histories of old and happier times 
and people with perfect correctness. She could take up 
quotations, too, of ancient songs and snatches of poetry, and 
would sometimes touch the strings of a little tinkling guitar, 
and make wild and melancholy music. Now and then, she 
would speak with acuteness and rationality, which caused 
