The first show of the season under the new arrangement was held on the 24th of May, and, strange to say, there were but two competitors. The Gardener' Chronicle reports:

" Of collections of vegetables, which were especially invited on this occasion, two were produced - one by Mr. Burns, gr. to Earl Stanhope, at Chevening, the other by Mr. Spivey, gr. to J. A. Houblon, Esq., of Hallingbury, near Bishop's Stortford. Fifty-six varieties came from Chevening, and only ten from Hallingbury. Some of Mr. Spivey's produce, as his Broccoli and Leeks, for instance, were, however, better than Mr. Burks'; but then he fell far short of Mr. B. in point of a large and finely varied collection, which is what the Society was desirous of encouraging, in order that it may show what a garden skillfully managed is really capable of furnishing at different seasons of the year; the first prize was therefore awarded to Mr. Burns, and the second to Mr. Spivey. Mr. Burns sent Wilcove and Miller's dwarf Broccoli, Buhner's dwarf Kidney Bean, Horse-radish, Celeriac, a vegetable used in soups, but not now very often seen; Seakale, Jerusalem Artichokes, Asparagus, Red Beet, Cattell's Reliance Cabbage, young silver-skinned and Strasburg Onions, old Potatoes, London Leeks, Mushrooms, both large and in the button state, Jerusalem Kale, Victoria, Giant, Linnaeus, and another kind of Rhubarb; white and red Turnip Radishes, and a salmon-colored variety, apparently a good long kind; Walker's white-spined Cucumber, curled and Normandy Cress, Mustard, Chicory, Celery, knotted Marjoram; common and Lemon Thyme, hardy green, white, and Bath Cos Lettuces; Sweet Basil, Fennel, red, common, and variegated Sage; Tarragon, summer and winter Savory, Batavian Endive, Chervil, fine double and giant Parsley, Sorrel, Watercresses, Burnet, round and prickly Spinach, and Italian Corn Salad, which, as we have before stated, is much better than the common sort.

" Mr. Spivey produced new Potatoes, young Carrots, Broccoli past its best, but large and fine; Cabbages, Spinach, some very good Leeks, Asparagus, Seakale considerably past its best, Myatt's Victoria Rhubarb, and Mushrooms. Of foreign produce, Mr. Lewis Solomon, of Covent Garden, sent a salad consisting of very good Curled Endive, Paris Cos Lettuces as large and fine as they could possibly be produced about London at any season, and red Turnip Radishes. A Banksian Medal was awarded. It may be mentioned here, that the Garden of the Society also contributed a collection of vegetables, consisting of round Summer Spinach, and the following Cabbages: Wheeler's Nonpareil, Early Plaw, Tiley's Early Marrow, the best very early kind, being sweet and tender, with no waste; Early Battersea, alia Fulham or Vanack, the best for a general crop; London Market, a large sort, but a little coarse; Sutton's Early Coomb, Early Nonpareil, and Brown's early. The same establishment likewise furnished Linnaeus, Victoria, Prince Albert, and Prince of Wales Rhubarb, the latter a short, deep red sort; Cock's Hardy White Cos Lettuce, Victory of Bath and Galway's Victory Cucumbers, and the Virginian Poke (Phytolacca decandra), a plant indigenous to the United States. The leaves of the latter are unwholesome; but the young shoots, which lose this quality by boiling in water, are eaten in North America as Asparagus. These shoots, which make their appearance very early in spring, are cut when about six or eight inches long; they are then scalded with boiling water, and afterwards boiled for twenty minutes in water, with a little salt in it; they are then placed on a suitable dish, with a small portion of butter added, when they are ready for table.

Dressed in this manner, it is considered in America quite as good and delicate as Asparagus.

"Of plants, Messrs, Lucombe, Prince & Co. received a large Silver Medal for a very fine variety of Cattleya Mossiae, having more orange in the lip than common, and for a collection of new hybrid Cape Heaths, consisting of Lindleyana, Exoniensis, pulcherrima, insignis, exquisita, and metulaeflora superba; all fine kinds, possessing large bold flowers and bright clear colors; they were stated to have been raised from Massoni, ampullacea, Sprengeli, Hartnelli, and aristata, all, it will be seen, good parents. The same nurserymen also sent Andromeda formosa, a charming new white-blossomed evergreen shrub, from Nepal, which has been found to be hardy at Exeter, and which certainly well deserved the Banksian Medal which was awarded it, and along with it the brilliant Begonia Prestoniensis, grown in a green-house; Acacia hispidissima, a new kind, with large bright yellow flowers, and apparently sufficiently shrubbery to be suitable for pot culture; Viburnum plicatum, a very fine Gueldres Rose, sent out some time ago by the Horticultural Society, and a Calceolaria called Ajax (yellow with brown blotch), which, having a stiff good habit and multitudes of showy blossoms, will doubtless make a good bedding plant Messrs. Henderson sent a little shrub (called a Pultenaea), from Swan river; and Mr. Glendinning had a New Holland plant called Dianella caerule, for which a certificate was awarded.

It produces a great tuft of grass-like leaves, from among which issue tall flower-stems, terminating in fine panicles of blue blossoms. Owing to the absence of sunlight, however, they did not open, and therefore the whole beauty of the plant was lost Mr. Burns, of Chevening, sent half-a-dozen White Ischia Figs. The plants from the Society's Garden, consisted of three Cape Heaths; Cole-onema pulcherrimum, two Azaleas, Boronia microphylla, Eutaxia myrtifolia, an Everlasting, Medinilla magnifies, two species of Begonia, and the handsome AEscliynanthus speciosus".