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Nottingham. First Exhibition. 
TULIPS. 
First Pan...Mr. Thackeray, Magnum Bonum, Abercrombie, Bagot, Queen Charlotte, 
Walworth, Unique. 
Second Pan...Mr. Gascoigne, Royal Sovereign, Captain White, Bagot, Queen Charlotte, 
Triomphe Royale, Unique. 
Third Pan...Mr. Harpham, Trafalgar, Captain White, Billiard, Queen Charlotte, Lady 
Crewe, Unique. 
Class I.—Premier...Mr. Gascoigne, Victory; 1. Ditto, Surpass Catafalque; 2. Ditto, 
Magnum Bonum; 3. Ditto, Old Dutch Catafalque. 
Class 2.—Premier...Mr. Gascoigne, Albion; 1. Mr. Harpham, Capt. White ; 2. Mr. Gas¬ 
coigne, Albion; 3. Mr. Harpham, Lord Milton. 
Class 3.—Premier...Mr. Gascoigne, Bagot; 1. Ditto, Billiard; 2. Mr. Thackeray, Impe- 
ratrix Florum ; 3. Mr. Gascoigne, Bishop of York. 
Class 4.—Premier...Mr. Harpham, Queen; 1. Mr. Thackeray, Sable Rex; 2. Mr. Gas¬ 
coigne, ditto; 3. Mr. Thackeray, Violet Sovereign. 
Class5. —Premier...Mr. Gascoigne, Triomphe Royale; 1. Ditto, ditto; 2. Ditto, Walworth; 
3. Ditto, Sherwood. 
Class 6. —Premier...Mr.Gascoigne, Unique; 1. Ditto,ditto; 2. Mr. Harpham, Flambeau; 
Mr. Thackeray, Grand Rose Desir. 
May 20. Wolverhampton. Tulip Show, at the Golden Bull Inn. 
Prizes awarded. 
Premier Prize...Bagot Rex, Mr. Hardware. 
Feathered Bizards...l. Mr. Pilsburg, unknown; 2. Mr. Smith, unknown; 3. Mr. Cart¬ 
wright, Earl St. Vincent; 4. Ditto, Charles X.; 5. Ditto, Improved Lecantique. 
Flamed Bizards.,.1. Mr. Thomas Smith, Surpass Catafalque; 2. Mr. J. S. Hillier, Dutch 
Catafalque; 3. Mr. T. Smith, Catafalque Imperiale; 4. Ditto, Abercrombie; 5. Ditto, 
Bell’s King. 
Feathered Bybloemens...!. Mr. Hardware, Seedling; 2. Mr. Pilsburg, Washington; 
3. Mr. Cartwright, unknown; 4. Mr. Hardware, unknown; 5. Ditto, ditto. 
Flamed Byblcemens...l. Mr. T. Smith, Bagot Rex; 2. Ditto, Bates’s Bagot; 3. Mr. 
Hardware, Washington; 4. Mr. Cartwright, Duchess of Wellington; 5. Mr. Hardware, 
Seedling. 
Feathered Roses...1. Mr. Thomas Smith, Lady Crewe; 2. Mr. Pilsburg, unknown; 
3. Mr. T. Smith, Hero of the Nile; 4. Ditto, Holmes’s King; 5. Gay Stella. 
Flamed Roses... 1. Mr. Hardware, Rose Triomphe Royale; 2. Mr. Smith, Lucy; 3. Mr. 
Thomas Smith, Rose Vesta; 4. Mr. Cartwright, Georgius Tertius; 5. Mr. Hardware, 
Countess Marsden. 
Self...l. Mr. Hardware, Groom’s White; 2. Ditto, Min d’Or. 
Double... 1. Mr. Hardware, Mariage de ma Fille; 2. Ditto, unknown. 
May 22. Billingsgate Tulip Show. Prizes awarded. 
1st Cup, John Gold ham, Esq., Milton, Carnation Bizards; Rose Brilliant, Triomphe 
Royale, Roses ; Duke of Wellington, Duchess of Sutherland, Bybloemens. 
2d Cup, Dr. Saunders, Polyphemus, Optimus, Violet Quarto, Violet Rougette, Dutch 
Ponceau, Triomphe Royale. 
Single Flowers...1st Prize, Mr. Gorpel, Violet Belleforme ; 2. Mr. Goldham, Triomphe 
Royale; 3. Dr. Saunders, Polyphemus. 
May 22. Royal Cornish. Prizes awarded. 
For the best Collection of Pelargoniums, consisting of 18 varieties, a silver cup, given by 
Mr. Rendle, jun., nurseryman, Union-road, Plymouth; three competitors, or the prize not 
to be awarded. For this prize there was but one competitor, therefore the cup could not be 
claimed; but the judges, considering the collection worthy of it, recommended that the 
Society’s silver medal be awarded to C. W. Turner, Esq., for Garth’s Perfection, Foster’s 
Alicia, Dennis’s Perfection, Roseanum, Lady Elizabeth Bulteel, Gaines’s King, Miss 
Wylde, Vandyke, Alexandrinum, Beauty of Ware, Climax, Turner’s Fair Ellen, Scottish 
Chief, Garth’s Criterion, Gem, Foster’s Jewess, Sir Robert Newman. 
Best Miscellaneous Group of Stove Plants, six named species in flower...!. Euphorbia 
splendens, Oncidium, sp. nov Cattleya bicolor, Sinningia velutina, new Aristolochia, Epi- 
dendrum coclileatum, G. C. Fox, Esq., Grove Hill; 2. Ipomea Horsfallii, Gloxinia speciosa, 
Combretum purpureum, Clerodendrum paniculatum, Cereopegea stapelioeformis, Vinca 
rosea, J. Vivian, Esq., Pencalenick. 
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