Amaryllideæ. Imatophyllum (Hook.) Aitòni Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2856.— Narcissus (L.) lobulàris Haw., semipartitus Haw., orientàlis L., poéticus L., recúrvus Haw. - Leucojum (L.) vérnum L. v. 2. múltiplex. Asphodèleæ. Muscàri (Desf.) pállens Bess. B. F. G. t. 259. Gilliesièæ. Gillièsia (Lindl.) gramínea Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 992. bulbous plant, typical of a new order, which Mr. Lindley has dedicated to Dr. Gillies. Grows well in loam and peat, in a cold frame. At Vol. II. p. 205. it is called a stove plant.

Tulipàceæ. Fritillària (L.) melèagris L. 2. múltiplex.

A rare

Restiacea. Eriocaúlon (L.) septangulàre With. A difficult plant to cultivate; but it has succeeded three successive years, in pots filled with Sphagnum and bog earth, and has now flowered strongly. Filices. Asplenium (L.) maderénse.- Alpha. July 3. 1830.

Observations. The prices stated in the list are those of the preceding fortnight; the differences during June have been too considerable to admit of being determined with any degree of accuracy; occasionally affected for a day by the excessive wet preventing a supply, and again fluctuating from the opposite cause. - July 10. 1830.

son.

July 14. Since my last report, the season has been unfavourable for ripening the various fruits that have, nevertheless, come to hand. Strawberries have been of bad quality and flavour generally. The crop has not been so large as was expected, in consequence of frosts prevailing during the time of flowering; many were also rotted and destroyed by slugs as they ripened: the earliest varieties brought to market this season were, the Old Scarlet and Keen's Seedling, both of which were brought from the open ground on the 22d of May. Gooseberries have been brought in great abundance, the crop being very generally good: the large Lancashire varieties, owing to the prevalence of moisture throughout the month of June, are now very large and fine, but deficient in flavour. Currants are in fair supply, but not so plentiful as last season; the bunches are much injured by the frosts so prevalent in April: the berries are, nevertheless, large and fine, owing to the same causes mentioned regarding the gooseberries. Pears are, in general, a good crop, but have not yet been brought to market in any quantity. Apples are partial, particularly in the London districts, where the earlier varieties are generally obtained; the crop farther off is better, but not equal to a third of last seaPlums are much better in all their varieties, which will make up for the deficiency of supply in early table-apples, and keep our market tolerably well furnished throughout the months of August and September; after which, apples and pears will be sent from greater distances, as by that time they will better bear the carriage; and fair prices will, doubtless, afford the growers a remuneration for their expenses, which was not the case last year, when the greater proportion of common apples were converted into cider, in consequence of the very low prices barely covering cost of carriage and incidental charges. The crop of wall-fruit, such as peaches, nectarines, apricots, and grapes, is tolerably good; but, from the great want of solar heat, is very backward, and will require a long continuance of the present fine weather to bring it to perfection. For the table, melons have been produced earlier this season than might have been expected from its backwardness. Pine-apples have been furnished in good supply and quality; but, owing to the putting off of many public dinner-parties during the time of the late king's illness, have not been in demand. Grapes have latterly been plentiful and reasonable. In general, the supply of fruits may be considered quite equal to the demand, its consumption being materially diminished by the total absence of sun and warmth during the whole of the last, and the early part of the present month. Early peas have not been so plentiful as usual, in consequence of the prevalence of wet, which, although it increases the luxuriance of the haulm, lessens its fruitfulness; in many cases, the pods have rotted before being gathered, and in no case have the peas yielded the usual quantities. The later varieties are now in good supply, but have been subjected to the same deterioration as the earlier the incoming crops are expected to be much improved by the present favourable appearance in the weather. Windsor and other table-beans are not so abundant as usual, the late wet season having materially affected them during the time of blossoming: the pods are to be found on the top of the stems, where the blossom is necessarily more exposed to the action of the atmosphere. Cauliflowers, although later than usual, have been abundant, and the prices, consequently, low for a short period; but they are gradually getting higher, a difference in value, from 9d. to 3s. per dozen, having actually taken place between the 24th of June and 21st of July. Potatoes have become very plentiful and cheap, being very much increased in bulk by the continued rains throughout June: the quality indifferent.

Our winter supplies will be necessarily abundant, and of excellent quality, should fine weather prevail during the ensuing autumnal months.-G. C.

The New Market-Building, referred to in our last (p. 379.), is now nearly completed, and we have a general plan, elevation of the east front, and perspective view, in the hands of the engraver, for our next Number. The two conservatories are occupied, the one by Messrs. Cormack, Son, and Sinclair, and the other by Messrs Hockley and Bunney. They are well stocked with showy green-house plants, as is the terrace with hardy flowers, and shrubs in pots. The whole forms a delightful promenade, open to every body; and if the plants were conspicuously named with small lead labels, as in the stoves of the Horticultural Society, this scene would be almost as good as a botanic garden in promoting a taste for plants; for the first step towards the knowledge of things is to know their names. In a small room, also open to every body, Messrs. Cormack, Son, and Sinclair have, or ought to have, like M. Vilmorin and Co. of Paris, a collection of the newest botanical and horticultural publications, a series of models of fruits, a herbarium of the grasses and herbage plants indigenous or cultivated in Britain: they have specimens of the best grass seeds for different specific purposes; plans for laying out flower-gardens, for garden structures, and for laying out residences of every variety of extent, from the street garden upwards; and various new implements, and other matters. Taking it altogether, these conservatories, the terrace, and their accompaniments, surpass any thing which has hitherto been attempted in London; and, as they become known, they will improve, in consequence of artists, artisans, and others sending their productions for exhibition. We should wish to see all Mr. Peake's vases and flower-pots, the terra-cotta statues of Flora, Pomona, Ceres, Venus, Apollo, the busts of naturalists, poets, and philosophers, &c., which we hope he has in hand, as well as the vases and orange tubs of Jones of the Vauxhall Road, and the sundials, pedestals, and therms of these and other ingenious potters.

The architectural beauty of this structure, no less than the very superior accommodation and comfort which it affords to the sellers and also to the purchasers, does the greatest honour to the public spirit of the Duke of Bedford. When we think of Woburn, what it is, and how it is kept up, and of the Duke's public and private character, the absence of all that display of feudal pageantry which in the present day is the never-failing sign of a barbarian or mean understanding, we must take the liberty of saying, even at the risk of giving offence, that we do not know a nobleman of the same rank who has so entirely our approbation. The architect of the market is Mr. Fowler, an artist of exquisite taste in his profession: but the original plan of this gentleman, an engraving of which is now before us, was entirely remodelled, agreeably to the suggestions of Mr. Charlwood, and certainly greatly improved; a circumstance not at all astonishing, considering Mr. Charlwood's great experience.as clerk of the market. We shall take this opportunity of observing that, in all cases in which architects are called upon to devise plans out of their common line, they ought to begin by consulting those who are to manage or use the building to be planned, and thus make themselves masters of all the various uses to which the edifice is or may be applied. Were this done generally in the case of horticultural and agricultural buildings in the country, we should be spared the view of many crudities and absurdities. We should have been spared the Chiswick Garden. We shall in due time give an example, in which a gardener, having first made his plan of a plant structure, Mr. Fowler gave it an architectural dress, so as to render it the noblest thing of the kind in the world; perfectly fitted for growing plants, and clothed with the beauty of refined architectural design.

Supposing this vegetable market to be considered as the central one, we should next wish to see other markets arising all round the metropolis, and VOL. VI. No. 27.

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more especially a system of abattoirs, as in Paris. It is surely disgraceful that such a place as Smithfield, and the scenes to which it gives rise on market days, should be continued in the centre of the most wealthy and populous city in Europe. But nothing on earth is so difficult to move as John Bull; and when he is baited into motion, it is more by the influence of main force, than by the machinery of general system or principle. One person or party takes up the idea of a cemetery, another that of a market; and, after years of perseverance in beating down prejudices and opposing interests, one of the parties becomes fatigued, and the objects are obtained or lost as it may happen. We repeat (see Vol. V. p. 686.) that, for the general improvement of London, and the direction of new streets and public buildings, a commission should be formed, whose proceedings ought to be open, like those of the House of Commons, and their plans or suggestions reported in the newspapers. They would thus be subjected to the test of public criticism, and the salutary influence of enlightened opinion, before being executed. Hitherto, as has been just observed, improvements have gone on at random, or subject to be thwarted by private interest, and the wonder is that things are not much worse than they are. We do not recollect a more vexatious instance of this than the abrupt termination of Regent Street, at St. James's Park, in a flight of steps, instead of the continuation of the carriage road to the front of the Treasury; and all this for the insignificant purpose of gratifying the builders of one or two new houses, at the perpetual inconvenience of the public. Even the steps would not have been permitted, but for a counter individual influence, an order of the king. But what satisfaction is there in that? The one is as much an exertion of individual influence as the other, and it might have happened to be on the wrong side. The political circumstances of a people liable to such outrages on their comforts and convenience, and on the beauty of their metropolis, are bad, and require reformation no less than their streets and market-places. But there is a time for every thing; and it is to be hoped we shall take a hint from France in other things besides abattoirs and cemeteries. - Cond.

ART. X.

Provincial Horticultural Societies.

NAME and Address of Secretary not before given :

Ipswich Horticultural Society, William Woollard, Honorary Secretary; May 16. 1830.

SUSSEX.

The Chichester Horticultural Society. This Society held its Spring Meeting on April 15., when prizes were awarded as follows:

Flowers. Auriculas: 1. Mr. Harrison, jun., gardener to Lord Egremont; 2. and S. Mr. Haddon and the Rev. Mr. Watkins, equal. Azaleas: Pink, Mr. Collyer, gardener to E. Woods, Esq., Shopwyke; white, Mr. Hammond, gardener to Messrs. Humphrey. Camellia Sasánqua-roses, Mr. Groundsell, gardener to J. J. Gruggen, Esq. Cactus speciosa and speciosissima and Bouquet of Flowers, Mr. Collyer. Box of Flowers, Mr. Sims, gardener to W. Leeves, Esq. Geranium Lord Combermere. Forced Rose, Mr. Collyer. J'erbèna Melindres, and Erinus lychnidea, Mr. Hammond. Amaryllide, Mr. Goddard, gardener to W. Rhoades, Esq.- Fruit. Pears, Mr. Holding. Strawberries: 1. Mr. Collyer; 2. Mr. Harrison. - Culinary Vegetables. Cucum bers: 1. Mr. Collyer; 2. Mr. Gorsuch, gardener to the Bishop of Chichester, and 3. Mr. Cakebread, gardener to Messrs. Henty, equal; 4. Mr. Hammond. Mushrooms: 1. Mr. Gorsuch; 2. Mr. Coates, gardener to the Rev. Geo. Porcher. Sea-kale: 1. Mr. Holding; 2. Mr. Gorsuch. Rhubarb, Mr. Gorsuch. Potatoes: 1. Mr. Collyer; 2. and 3. Mr. Cakebread and Mr. Groundsell, equal. French Beans: 1. and 2. Mr. Coates and Mr. Harrison, equal. Lettuce, Mr. Collyer. (Portsmouth Herald, April 18.)

ESSEX.

This Society

The Chelmsford and Essex Floral and Horticultural Society. held its First Exhibition this year on April 20., which was respectably and numerously

attended.

Flowers. Auriculas: 1. Smith's Waterloo, Birche's Amethyst, and Taylor's Glory, Mr. Charles Harris; 2. Stretch's Alexander, Butterworth's Lord Hood, and Townshend's Lady Duncan, Mr. Jonathan Harris; 3. Taylor's Ploughboy, Chilcott's Brilliant, and Taylor's Glory, Mr. G. Wicks. Messrs. Pearson, Bird, and Howard also showed some good specimens. -Fruit. Apples: 1. Norfolk Biffin, Ross's Nonpareil, and Royal Nonpareil, John Disney, Esq.; 2. Ribston Pippin, and Golden Rennet, Mr. Charles Harris.

Mr. Lewis showed Mr. Disney also showed some brown beurré pears, sea kale, lettuce, &c. A collection of early tulips, Ericæ, polyanthuses, &c., the growth two brace of early cucumbers. of Mr. G. Howard, were much admired. (Suffolk Chronicle, April 24.)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

Cambridgeshire Horticultural Society.

This Society held its April Show on
April 21, when the following adjudication of prizes took place :-
Flowers. Auriculas (four, one of a sort), Freedom, Netherfield Beauty, Venus, Metropolitan,
Mrs. Lascelles. Auricula (of any colour), Revenge, Mrs. Lascelles. Seedling Auricula: no first
prize; 2. Mr. Fordham of Hatley. Polyanthus: no first prize; 2. Bonaparte, Mrs. Lascelles.
Seedling Polyanthus, Mr. Denson. Double Wallflower: 1. Mr. Lestourgeon; 2 Mr. Widnall.
Pinks, Mr. Challis. Double Primroses, Double Crimson, Double White, Double Scotch, Mr.
Denson.-Fruit. Table Apples, Franklin's Golden Pippin, Mr. Gimson, Strawberries, Keen's
Culinary Vegetables. Cucumbers: 1. Mr.
Seedling: 1. Mr. Challis; 2. C. Pemberton, Esq -
Catling; 2. Mr. Fordham. Potatoes, forced: 1. (10 to the Ib.) Ashtop Kidneys, Mr. Fordham;
2. (11 to the lb.) Ashleafed Kidneys, Mr. Challis. Broccoli, White, Col. Pemberton. Cabbage,
Mr. Widnall. Rhubarb, Red, Mr. Shippey.

Extra-Prizes. Azalea indica álba, Six Double Hyacinths, and Pears (Colmar and D'Auch),
Mr. Biggs. Lettuces, Brown Dutch, Col. Pemberton.

The next Show was announced to take place on the 10th of May, when prizes of 2s. 6d. each will be given to cottagers for double stocks grown in pots, cabbages, and lettuces. It was also (Suffolk Chronicle, stated that the Treasurer renews his bouquet prizes for the four next Shows. April 24.)

We do not remember The May Show of this Society was held on May 19. ever witnessing a more splendid display of flowers, particularly geraniums. The green-house plants were superb. The asparagus also deservedly attracted considerable notice. The Chairman Rev. J. A. Brown) announced the award of the judges as follows:

Anemones (six best, Flowers. Tulips (six best bloom, one of a sort), Triomphe Royal, Sir George Duckett, Matilda, Vesta, Ophir, Pizarro, Mr. Searle. Tulip, Catafalque, Mr. Fred. Finch. one of a sort), Belle Comtesse, L'Episcopal, Le Sultan Achmet, Sophie, Rose semée des fleurs, La Belle Pallas, Mr. Searle. Anemone, Déesse Flore, Mr. Searle. Heart's-ease (3 best bloom, in pots), Mr. Denson. Pelargoniums (six best bloom, in pots): 1. Anne Boleyn, Moore's Victory, Humei, Staffordianum, Macránthon, Southcoteanum, Mr. Widnall; 2. Lord Yarborough, Rosa Matilda, Macránthon, De Vere, Defiance, Anne Boleyn, Mr. Searle. Pelargonium (in a pot), Germánicum, Mr. Widnall. Padnia (in a pot, Montagne, Mr. Gimson. Stock (grown in a pot), would have been awarded to Joseph Thackeray, Esq. Fellow of King's College, but he was not a member at the time of exhibition. Stock (cut), would have been awarded to Mr. Thackeray, as Asparagus: 1. (50 above, Mr. French. - Fruit. Strawberries: no first prize; 2. Mr. French. Culinary Vegetables. Peas, John Smith, gardener to Francis Pym, Esq. Lettuces, Mr. Palmer. heads, 8lb. 8 oz. weight), Mr. Palmer; 2. (nearly the same weight), Mr. Brown of Fordham. Cabbage (4 lbs), Mr. Widnall. Cauliflowers: no first prize; 2. John Smith, gardener to Mr. Pym. Treasurer's Bouquet, Mr. Gimson.

Lettuce, Mr. Widnall.

Cottagers' Prizes. Cabbage and Lettuce, James Tuck, Windmill Cottage. Apples: Table, Seedlings Extra-Prizes. Carrots, Mr. Hudson. grown from the Old Golden Pippin, Mr. Challis; Kitchen, Hollow-crowned Pippins, Mr. Brown of Fordham. Pelargoniums, Macránthon, Rosa Matilda, Generalissimo, grafted on one stock, Mr. Searle.

The next Show was then announced for the 16th of June, when prizes of 2s. 6d. each will be given to cottagers for the best rose, pink, sweet william, strawberries, potatoes, and peas. It was hinted, for the encouragement of industrious cottagers, that it would be desirable to propose prizes to be given in the autumn (if the cottagers' funds would allow it) for the best hive of bees, and the best cultivated garden in the county. (Cambridge Chronicle, May 21.)

The June Show of this Society was held on June 17., when the following adjudication of prizes was announced by the Rev. R. Lascelles, who was in the chair :

Flowers. Ranunculuses (six best, one of a sort): 1. Henrietta, Charlotte, Charbonnier, Wurtemberg, Chapella, Annette, Mr. F. Finch; 2. Mr. John Bailey. Ranunculus: 1. Le Vrai Noir, Mr. F. Finch; 2. Calchas, Mr. Dickerson. Pinks (six best, one of a sort): 1. Bray's Invincible, Barrett's Conqueror, La Belle Alliance, Harefield Beauty, Filbrooke's Beauty, Davey's Leopold, Mr. Haylock. Pink: 1. Mr. Ripsher; 2. Davey's Roi de Pourpre, Mr. Haylock. Seedling, Mr. Sweetwil Ripsher. Roses (six best), L'Ombre Superbe, Rose de Roi, Princess Victoria, Brown's Sup, George the Fourth, Blush Moss, Mr. Widnal. Rose, George the Fourth, Mr. Crisp. liams, Mr. O'Robin. Seedling Pelargonium: No first prize; 2. Mr. Widnal. Bouquet (Treasurer's), Mr. Gimson.- Fruit. Strawberries (size): 1. Keen's Seedling, Mr. Lestourgeon; 2. Best lb., containing fewest in number: 1. Keen's Seedling (23 to the Keen's Seedling, Mr. Dall. lb.), Col. Pemberton; 2. Keen's Seedling (23 to the lb.), Mr. Lestourgeon, Cherries (best plate), May Duke, Col. Pemberton. Melon, Golden Cantaloup, Mr. Dall. Cottagers' Prizes. - Peas and Potatoes, Tuck, Harston. Pink and Rose, Edward Dowse, Ickleton. Two Roses, George the Fourth, Unique, Edward Dowse, Ickleton. Sweetwilliam, and Strawberries, Beales, Cherryhinton. Extra-Prizes.- Cactus speciosíssima, Mr. Gimson. Six Seedling Ranunculuses, Mr. J. Bailey. Two Cauliflowers, Mr. Newman, Bourn.

The next Show was announced for the 21st or 28th of July, one of which days will be fixed by the Committee, and of which early notice will be given, when prizes will be given to cottagers for the best carnation, picotee, balsam, hollyhock, gooseberries, currants, and cucumber. Treasurer's prize for the best bouquet.

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Also the Thanks were, as usual, voted to the mayor and corporation for the use of the Hall. (Ibid. June 18.) The Ranunculus Show was held on the 14th of Cambridge Florists' Society· June, and notwithstanding the very unfavourable weather for some time past, the Show was decidedly superior to any previous one as to the quality and size of the flowers, the appearance of The tables were neatly decorated with some fine which on the grand stand was truly beautiful. varieties of geraniums from the valuable collection of Mr. Widnall of Grantchester. The follow. ing is the award of the judges on this occasion:

Black 1. Naxara, Mr. Finch; 2. Naxara, and 3. Grand Bravura, Mr. Bailey; 4. Eil Noir, Mr
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