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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, October 27, 1857. 
cted 
i even 
might 
incorrect nomenclature which remained uncorre 
after the meeting. Such an occasion 
very advantageously lend its aid, and make the ex¬ 
hibitors of such fruit aware of errors of this kind; 
it would be doing a real service, and would also tend to 
make the exhibitions popular among gardeners, inde¬ 
pendently of the prize remunerations. 
The following is a complete list of the prizes 
awarded :— 
Class I.—Collections of Fruits (fruiterers only).—First prize, £4, Mr. 
Webber; second, £3, Mr. Solomons, Covent Garden. 
Class II. (a.)—Grapes (three bunches of Muscats).—First prize, £2, 
Mr. Drewett, gardener to Mrs. Cubitt, Denbies, I ^ orluns:, : s f?°n > » 
Mr. Hill, gardener to R. Sneyd, Esq., Keele Hall, Staffordshire, thud, 
15s., Mr. Little, gardener to A. Darby, Esq., Stoke Court, Slough. 
Class II. (b.)—Grapes (three bunches of other white kinds).—First 
prize, £% Mr. Fleming, gardener to his Grace the Duke of Sutherland, 
Trentham ; second, £l, Mr. Drewett, gardener to Mrs. Cubitt, Denbies, 
Dorking; third, 15s., Mr. Tdlyard, gardener to Viscount L.versle 3 , 
Heckfield, Hants. 
Class II. (c.)—Grapes (three hunches of Black Hamburgh).—First 
prize, £2, Mr. Hill, gardener to R. Sneyd. Esq., Keele Hall, Stafford¬ 
shire ; second, £\, Mr. Tillyard, gardener to Viscount Eversley ; third, 
15s., Mr. Snow, gardener to Earl de Grey, Wrest Park. 
House, St. Alban’s ; third, 10s., Mr. Frost, gardener to E. L. Betts, Esq., 
Preston Hall, Maidstone. . 
Clyss XII. (b.)—Plums and Prunes of English or Foreign Growth.— 
First prize, 15s., Mr. Snow, gardener to Earl de Grey, Wrest Park, 
Silsoe; second, 10s., Mr. Whiting, gardener to H. G. Hope, Esq., the 
Deepdene, Dorking. „ , . ., 
Class XIII—Figs.—Second prize, 15s., Mr. Snow, gardener to the 
Earl de Grey, Wrest Park, Silsoe. , 
Class XIV.—Alpine Strawberries.—First prize, £\, Mr. Ingram, 
Royal Gardens, Frogmore; second, 15s., Mr. Tillyard, gardener to 
Viscount Eversley, Heckfield, Hants. 
Class XV.—Currants.—First prize, 15s., Mr. Tillyard, gardener to 
Viscount Eversley; second, 10s., Mr. Frost, gardener to E. L. Betts, Esq., 
Preston Hall; third, 10s., Mr. Snow, Wrest Puik. 
Class XVI.— Raspberries.—First prize, 15s., Mr. Mortimer, gardener 
to Messrs. B. Browne, Wallington, Surrey ; second, 10s., Mr. Tillyard, 
gardener to Viscount Eversley; third, 10s., Mr. Cheslier, gardener, 
Hollyridge Place, Woking. _ . 
Class XVII.—Eugenia Ugni.—First prize, 15s., Mr. Gaines, Bat¬ 
tersea; second, 10s., Mr. Williams, gardener to A. Fairlie. 
OLD AND NEW COMPOST.— KEEPING 
BEDDING PLANTS. 
Most of the fashionable flower gardens are now 
cleared of the bedding plants; the beds are raked 
7 _ o _ down; and every stalk and leaf, with a heavy crop of 
Class II. (d!)—Grapes (three bunches of other black kinds).—First ; s p or t grass, and all the Sweepings of the walks are put 
ize, £ 2 , Mr. ^^l^S^rd^er to ^Rj^Sney4,^E^q.,^KeeleJHall^Starmrd- ^ milC ^ pi e . The Crust is to be made with tlie 
autumn leaves during the next month in daily or weekly 
allowances, and it should he remembered that this is the 
right time for “ seasoning” the pie, just before the crusting 
begins. Nothing about a garden is so useful as a good 
rubbish heap if it is well managed ; that is, if the stalks 
and roots from the flower-beds are at once well mixed 
and turned in and over with the summer accumulations, 
to be thoroughly soaked through and through with strong 
ammoniacal liquor from gas works, or stronger manure 
prize y i j i'A l » XAkXky J ”3 A . 1 
shire; second, £\, Mr. Allport, gardener to H. Ackroyd, Esq., Dod 
dirigton Park, Nantwich ; third, 15s., Messrs. Lane, Great Berkhamp- 
stead. 
Class II. (f.)—Grapes (boxes of 15 lb. weight-market gardeners 
only).—First prize, £3, Mr. Davies, Oakhill, East Barnet; second, 
£2, Mr. Sparry, Queen’s Graperies, Brighton; third, £1, Mr. J. Bell, 
Thorpe, Norwich. 
Class III. (a.)—Pine Apples (in threes).—First prize, ^3, Mr. 
Spencer, gardener to the Marquis of Lansdowne, Bowood ; second, £2, 
Mr. Page, Park Hill Gardens, Streatham; third, £1, Mr. Bray, Peak 
Gardens, Sidmouth. 
Class III. (b.)—Pine Apples (single specimens).—First prize, £2, 
M^a.fSh* water from sewage or taiks, stables or, cow-houses, hen 
Gardens, Sidmouth. 
Class IV. (a.)—Pears of Home Growth (12 sorts, six of each.)—First 
prize, £3, Mr. Ingram, Royal Gardens, Frogmore; second, £2, Mr. 
Tillyard, gardener to the Right Hon. Viscount Eversley, Heckfield, 
Hants; third, £1, Mr. Harrison, Oatlands Palace Gardens, Weybridge. 
Class IV. (b.)—Pears of Home Growth (six sorts, six of each).— 
First prize, ^Tl, Mr. Sorley, gardener to E. Zwillchenbart, Roselands, 
Aigworth, Liverpool; second, 15s., Mr. II. Wood, gardener to R. Scott 
Murray, Esq., Danesfield, Great Marlow; third, 10s., Mr. Fowle, gar¬ 
dener to G. W. Cooke, Esq., Beesthrope Hall, Newark. 
Class IV. (c.)—Single dishes of Dessert kinds.—First prize, 15s., 
Mr. Tillyard, gardener to Viscount Eversley, Heckfield, Hants; second, 
10s., Mr. Fowle, gardener to G- Cooke, Esq., Beesthrope Hall, Newark ; 
third, 10s., Mr. Snow, gardener to Earl de Grey, Wrest Park, Silsoe. 
Class IV. (d.)—Single dishes of Kitchen kinds.—First prize, 15s., 
Mr. Snow, gardener to Earl de Grey, Wrest Park; second, 10s., Mr. 
Lane, gardener to J. H. Palmer, Esq., F.H.S., Fulham; third, 10s., 
Mr. Cox, Redleaf, Penshurst, Kent. 
Class V. (a.)—Collection of Pears (Foreign growth, twelve soris, six 
of each).—First prize, ^3, to Mr. Lewis Solomons, fruiterer, Covent 
Garden. 
Class V. (b.)—(Six sorts, six of each).—First prize, ^1, Mr. Lewis 
Solomons. 
Class VI. (a.)—Apples of Home Growth (twelve sorts, six of each). 
—First prize, £2, Mr. Snow, gardener to Earl de Grey, Wrest Park, 
Silsoe, Bedfordshire; second, rf’l, Mr. Ingram, Royal Gardens, Frog¬ 
more, Windsor; third, 15s., Mr. Cox, F.H.S., Redleaf, Penshurst. 
Class VI. (b.)—Single dishes of Dessert kinds (home growth, con¬ 
taining six fruits of one sort).—First prize, 15s., Mr. Simpson, gardener 
to Lady Molyneux, Stoke Farm, Slough; second, 10s., Mr. Hope, gar¬ 
dener to Miss Gurney, West Ham, Essex; third, 10s., Mr. Carmichael, 
gardener to the Right Hon. Countess of Dunmorc. 
Class VI. (c.)—Single dishes of Kitchen kinds.—First prize, 15s., 
Mr. Frost, gardener to E. L. Betts, Esq., Preston Hall, Maidstone; 
second, 10s., Mr. Whiting, gardener, the Deepdene Gardens, Dorking; 
third, 10s., Mr. Wells, Holme Lacy Gardens. 
Class VII. (a.)—Apples of Foreign Growth.—First prize, £2, Mr. 
Lewis Solomons, Covent Garden. 
Class VII. (b.)—Single dishes of Dessert kinds.—First prize, 15s., 
Messrs. Hovey, nurserymen, Boston, U.S.A., for Baldwin Apple. 
Class VII. (c.)—Single dishes of Kitchen kinds.—First prize, 15s., 
Messrs. Hovey, Boston, U.8.A., for Rhode Island Greening. 
Class VIII. (b).—Oranges, Lemons, and Citrons (home growth).— 
First prize, £2, Mr. Robinson, gardener to Lord Boston, Hedsor; second, 
£\, Mr. Elliott, gardener to Lord Ilchester, Melbury House, Dorchester; 
third, 15s., Mr. Lane, Fulham. 
Class IX.—Peaches (single dish).—First prize, 15s., Mr. Little, gar¬ 
dener to A. Darby, Esq., Stoke Court, Slough; second, 10s., Mr. Hill, 
gardener to R. Sneyd, Esq., Keele Hall, Staffordshire. 
Class XL—Melons (single fruit),—First prize, 15s., Mr. Watson, 
Ealing; second, 10s., Mr. Monro, gardener to Mrs. Oddie, Colney 
roosts and yards, piggeries and cesspools. Any of these 
resources will not only season the pie, hut will assist the 
process of rotting the stronger ingredients without losing 
their goodness. The sooner and more thoroughly these 
are reduced to a rich slimy state the more rich and 
useful they will turn out, and the more of poor soil may 
he added to the heap before it is covered with leaves. 
This autumn lias been so warm and moist that all the 
self-sown weeds have come up amazingly. Borders, 
beds, and quarters which used to he as clean as a pink 
are now covered with weeds in nine gardens out of ten. 
The usual remedy of digging them in is not at all the 
best way, especially in small gardens, where composts 
for potting and for planting choice pot plants with are 
always scarce and dear to he had for money; hut few 
things are easier to be had, with good management, than 
these composts, as every garden can produce them. One 
might get cart-loads just now of the very best composts 
in the world for bedding plants, cuttings, and seedlings, 
by paring off one half inch from the surface of all the 
parts where weeds have got the upper hand. Put a 
wheelbarrow before a man, and let him shake oft' the 
whole surface of a patch of ground, and it is surprising 
what a deal he will get off, with not only no loss, hut 
with very considerable gain. Whether there he weeds 
or not there are thousands and tens of thousands of 
eggs of insects and little grubs among the surface soil 
and under bushes, and by collecting them in the general 
contribution to the muck pie they may be all cooked up 
in the mass and got rid of. The more worn out or 
bleached the surface of apiece of garden ground happens 
to be, the more immediately will it suck up the goodness 
of the pie, and the longer retain it. All garden pies are 
by far too rich and go too much to waste without some 
soil is mixed with them when they are finished for the 
season. 
I recollect once clearing a large quarter of Goose¬ 
berry trees from the caterpillar by surfacing it in frosty 
weather when the frost was over an iucli deep. The 
