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nificent plant of Lilium lancifolium speciosum, bearing upwards 
of thirty flowers. Mr. John Reed, gardener to Professor Syme, 
Mill-bank, for admirably grown plants of Achimenes longiflora 
and A. grandiflora, and for very large and beautiful specimens 
of Celosia cristata. Messrs. Carstairs, Kelly, and Company, 
Warriston, for a remarkably fine flowering plant of the Fuchsia 
named Duchess of Sutherland, and for rich collections of Car¬ 
nations, Hollyhocks, and Dahlias, sent for exhibition. Mr. 
Alexander Forrester, gardener to Captain Falconar, Carlowrie, 
for a seedling hybrid Lathyrus latifolius, the white having been 
crossed with the pink coloured, producing blossoms piettily 
veined; and for Fucca flaccida in flower. INXr. John Stieet, 
gardener to Mrs. H. N. Ferguson, Biel, for a seedling Myrtle, 
raised from a seed of a broad-leafed myrtle ripened in the open 
air at Biel: a variegated seedling Mimulus. Mr. James Gibson, 
gardener to J. T. Murray, Esq., Eskbank, tor a tiay of seedling 
Petunias, some of the flowers being of large size and bright 
colours. Thanks were voted to Messrs. J. Dickson and Sons, 
Inverleith Nurseries, and to Messrs. Handasyde, Glen Nur¬ 
series, for rich collections of Dahlia blooms sent foi exhibition 
only. 
The Wilts Horticultural Society. 
The anticipations formed from the announcement of the grand 
Horticultural Fete in Salisbury have been more than realised. 
Many years have elapsed since so splendid an assemblage of 
rank, fashion, and beauty of Wilts and the adjoining counties 
has been witnessed, as that which on Tuesday, September 16, 
thronged the gardens of Colonel Baker, which, exceedingly 
beautiful as they are at all times, never bore a more attractive 
appearance than on this occasion, when they weie ciowded by 
an elegant company, who appeared fully to appieciate tne 
efforts that had been made to minister to their recreation both 
by Colonel Baker, who, with much kindness, had placed his 
grounds at the disposal of the Society, and by the committee 
to whom the management of the fete had been entrusted. The 
gateway was elegantly decorated with antique carving and 
