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due attention. It would also be of great advantage, if the re¬ 
porters would state what influence the exhibitions appeared to 
them to have in the districts over which it may be supposed more 
immediately to extend. There is another question closely con¬ 
nected with this, or rather arising out of it—the share which 
those exhibitions, and the love of flowers resulting from them, 
appear to have in improving the mental and moral condition of 
the people. But this is a very nice question, and the investigation 
of it would require much discrimination. 
April 27. Biggleswade. Spring Show at the New School Room. Prizes 
awarded. 
Auriculas, green-edged...!. Mr. Giddings, Page’s Champion; 2. Mr. Garret, Booth’s 
Freedom ; 3. W. Hogg, Esq., Lovely Anne. 
Grey-edged...1. Mr. Garret, Ringleader; 2. W. Hogg. Esq., ditto ; 3. Mr. Webster, ditto. 
White-edged...]. Mr. W'ebster, Tailor’s Glory; 2. W. Hogs', Esq., ditto; 3. Mr. Ged- 
dmgs, ditto. 
Self-coloured...1. Mr. Franklin, Metropolitan; 2. F. Hogg, Esq., Whitaker’s True Blue • 
3. Mr. Webster, Lord Primate. 
Polyanthus...1. Mr. Garret, Alexander; 2. Mr. Pullen, Wood’s Gold Lace; 3. Mr. Web¬ 
ster, ditto. 
Best Stove Plant...Mr. Webster, Cactus speciosissimus. 
Best Greenhouse Plant...Mr. Webster, Azaleaindicahybrida; second best ditto, F. Hogg, 
Esq., Azalea indica alba. 
Best Hardy Herbaceous Plant...Mr. Webster, Phlox Verna. 
Pansies, best twenty-four blooms...1. Mr. Garret’; 2. Mr. Webster; 3. F. Hogg, Esq. 
Best twelve blooms...1. Mr. Garret; 2. F. Hogg, Esq.; 3. Mr. Webster. 
April 29. Stamford. First Show, at Handwell’s Hotel. Prizes awarded. 
American Plants...2 Azalea indica, 2 Rhododendron pontica, 1 Scarlet Azalea, and 
1 Fuchsia fulgens, Countess of Lindsey. 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants...Correa speciosa, Euphorbia splendens, Fuchsia fulgens, 
Erica ovata, Kennedia nigricans, Vica rosea, Ardesia crenalata, Pimelia decussata, Brug- 
mansia arborea, Indigofera Australis, Cineraria bicolor, Anthocerci viscosa, Vinca alba, 
Euphorbia jaquiniflora, Deutzia scabra, Erica vestita alba, Acacia armata, Lord Willoughby 
de Eresby. 
Geraniums...Hericartianum, Chelseanum, Queen Bess, Washington, Speculum mundi, 
Perfection, Splendidissima, Marchioness of Exeter. 
Ditto, the best Dealer’s Stand...Mr. Algar. 
Ditto, the best Seedling...Mrs. W. Harper. 
Cactuses...Cactus Jenkinsonia, Cactus speciosa, Cactus Edesii, Cactus speciosissimum, 
Lord Willoughby de Eresby. 
Pansies, Dealers’ Prizes....1. Wellington, Masterpiece, Pomona Suprema, Don Juan, 
Mrs. Cheney, Mulberry, Joan of Arc, Belzona, Valteria, Lady Peel, King of Yellows, Duke 
of Northumberland, Anna Maria, Lord Glames, Amato, Grand Monarque, Diana Supreme, 
Duke of Wellington, King of Oude, Patriot, Mr. R. Brown; 2. Diana Supreme, Lady Cle¬ 
ments, Superb Lilac, Capt. Ross, Rosette, Masterpiece, Emma, Adelaide, Radiata, Phyllis, • 
Queen of Yellows, Helena, Allen’s Minerva, Antiope, Mischance, George the Fourth, 
Amato, Thomsonia, Claude, Queen of Scotts, Mr. Algar. 
Ditto, Amateur’s Prizes...1. Amato, Harry, Macbeth, Sterne’s Maria, Lady Peel, and 
four Seedlings, Mr. J. Mills; 2. Enchantress, Vesta, Amato, Victoria, Beauty of Edmon¬ 
ton, Splendid White, Pasta, Joan of Arc, Bronze, Nabob, Melon’s Beauty, Mrs. Worsley. 
Extra Prizes...Bilbergia zebrina, General Johnson. Cactus speciosissimum, Cactus 
speciosa, and Roses, Mrs. M. W. Jackson. 
Fine grown Plants, and Collection of Geraniums...Consisting of Chef d’oeuvre, Anna 
Boleyn, Fosteria rosea, Lord Combermere, Garth’s Perfection, Glorianum, Splendidissima, 
Sir John Trollope. 
Bouquet of tender Flowers...Marchioness of Exeter. 
Clianthus puniceus...Ditto. 
