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Best 6 Picottees...Victoria, Vesuvius, Sharpe’s Wellington, Maid of the Mill, Agrippina, 
Nehemiah; Rev. J. G. Hodgson. 
Best 12 Pansies...1. Aladdin, Carlo Dolci, Rival Queen, Mentor, Vivid, Jewess, Ariel, 
Majestic, Grand Duke, Oberon, Midas, Sylph; Mr. Juillion. 2. Maria, Aladdin, Grand 
Duke, Mountjoy’s Queen, Vivid, Adelaide, Coronation, Angelina, Miss Sebright, Sydney, 
Victory, Triumph ; Mr. Juillion. 
Best 6 German Stocks... 1. Mr. Dodds, 2. Mr. H Branford. 
Best 12 Perennials...Mr. Sankey. 
Best 12 Annuals...R. Brooke, Esq. 
Best Bouquet, including Greenhouse or Forced and Hardy Flowers...Rev. C. Bayley. 
Best Bouquet, Hardy Flowers only... J. P. Plumptre, Esq. 
Best Floral Device...1. ArmChair, Mr. W. Branford; 2. Basket, Miss Rigden, 
cottager’s prizes. 
Best Geranium...Edward Goodban, Wingham. 
Best Plant...John Tucker, Stodmarsh. 
Fruit and Vegetables for Subscribers and Cottagers numerous. 
July 30. North Herts and South Beds Horticultural Society. 
The Exhibition for Carnations and Picottees took place at Hitchin, July 30. 
Carnations, 12 best...l. Mr. Barringer, Bedford; Game Boy, Barringer’s Fire King, 
Wilson’s William the Fourth, Paul Pry, Barringer's Surprise, Barringer’s Enchantress, 
Queen of Sheba, Turner’s Princess, Barringer’s Apollo, Ely’s Lovely Ann, Duke of Leeds, 
Ely’s Mr. Granger. 2. Mr. Gamut, Codicote; Wood’s William the Fourth, Alfred the 
Great, Gregory’s King Alfred, Paul Pry, Fletcher’s Duchess of Devonshire, Queen of Sheba, 
Puxley Queen, Duke of Roxburgh, Wheeler’s Victory, Wild’s Perfection, Seedling, Lan¬ 
cashire Lass. 
Ditto, 6 best...l. Mr. Wm. Pope, Biggleswade; Wilson’s William the Fourth, Paul Pry, 
Wood’s William the Fourth, Christian’s William the Fourth, Queen of Sheba, Gregory’s 
King Alfred.§ 2. Plon. Dudley Ryder, Ickleford. 3. F. P. Delme Radcliffe, Esq. Hitchin. 
Ditto, 4 best...l. Wm. Curling, Esq. Hitchin. 2. Joseph Sharpies, Esq. Hitchin. 
Ditto, best single specimen...Mr. Barringer, Barringer’s Surprise. 
Ditto, best seedling...Mr. Barringer, Barringer’s Masterpiece. 
Picottees, 12 best...l. Mr. Barringer, Bedford; Giddins’sTeazer, Giddins’s Marchioness of 
Townsend, Giddins’s Joan of Arc, Giddins’s Miss Hennell, Giddins’s Nimrod, Giddins’s 
Conqueror, Wood’s Queen Victoria, Barringer’s Fairy Queen, Barringer’s Beauty of Bedford, 
Sharp’s Duke of Wellington, Sharp’s Hector, Martin’s Queen Victoria. 2. Mr. Garratt; 
Codicote; Sharp’s Duke of Wellington, Miss Willoughby, Russell’s Incomparable, Wood’s 
Agrippina, Wood’s Queen Victoria, Wood’s Pamela, Wood’s Miss Wilkinson, Wood’s 
Triumph, Wood’s Duke of Manchester, Lord Hill, Miss Neville, Princess Amelia. 
Ditto, 6 best...1. Mr. Wm. Pope, Biggleswade; Miss Willoughby, Incomparable, Miss 
Neville, Miss Desborough, Mrs. Lenton, Wood’s Queen Victoria. 2. William Lucas, Esq 
Hitchin. 
Ditto, 4 best...1. Wm. Curling, Esq. Hitchin; Duke of Manchester, Giddins’s Troubler, 
Wood’s Queen Victoria, Wood’s Agrippina. 2. Joseph Sharpies, Esq. Hitchin. 
Ditto, best single specimen...Mr. Wm. Pope, Russell’s Incomparable. 
Ditto, best seedling...Mr. Barringer, Barringer’s Fairy Queen. 
July 30. Kilmarnock Horticultural Exhibition. —The members of 
this Society met for competition in the Turf Inn Assembly Rooms. The 
articles brought forward were of excellent quality, and did great justice to the 
exertions of the competitors. The judges, Messrs. James Young, John 
Anderson, James M‘Lymont, and James Wyllie, on Flowers; and Messrs. 
John Brown, George Brown, James Pattison, Basil Mitchell, and James 
Hamilton, on Fruit and Vegetables, after a careful inspection, awarded the 
competitors to stand as under, viz.—- 
CUT FLOWERS. 
Best 5 Pinks, Cook’s Seedling, Suwarrow, King, Maggie, and Queen Adelaide (2 com¬ 
petitors)... John Brown, Esq., of Laurel Bank. 
Best collection of Garden Roses (2 competitors)...Mr. John Ingram, gardener, Treesbanks. 
Best 5 Climbing Roses (2 competitors)...Mr. Ingram. 
Best 3 China Roses...Mr. John Richmond, gardener, Mount. 
Best 5 Seedling Pansies, sown 1841 (2 competitors)...Mr. Robert Highet, gardener, 
Assloss. 
Best 13 Pansies, named sorts (2 competitors)...Mr. James Murray, gardener, Lainshaw, 
with Amato, Diomede, Queen Victoria, Queen, Eliza, Lord Douglas, Lady Douglas, 
Cuttie Sark, &c. &c. 
Best collection of Pansies...Mr. Highet. 
