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feituation with regard to the stock, as the seed when sown is with 

 regard to the earth. It immediately derives its nutriment from the 

 ascending sap of the new tree, and begins to form its wood and 

 branches, and to secrete its proper juices in proportion to the sup- 

 ply of food it now receives. If a plant from any cause produces 

 roots with difficulty, its whole habit will be delicate, and its flowers 

 if formed, will, as in the case of that most lovely of flowers, the 

 double yellow rose, probably fall off without expanding, from the 

 want of an adequate supply of nutriment from its roots ; but, as in all 

 trees, every bud is, when fully formed, in itself a perfect and distinct 

 individual, if such an individual be removed from its own root, and 

 placed where it will be supported by the healthy vigorous roots of 

 another species of variety, which happens in budding, it will no 

 longer have to depend upon a source, the supplies from which are 

 imperfect, but on the contrary, like a seed removed frorti barren to 

 fertile ground, it will flourish in a degree before unknown. The 

 contrary effect takes place when a vigorous plant is transferred to 

 t)ne less vigorous. And hence, the whole effect of stocks upon the 

 scions, or buds inserted upon them. ' 



Therfe was also a great variety of fruit and flowers upon the table, 

 and seeds of several useful vegetables were distributed. 



-^^^^ July Srd. 



Seven medals were awarded to different individuals for fruit sent 

 ■\)y them to the Society's f^te on the 23rd of June ; and one to 

 Capt. Drummond, for his ** successful exertions in bringing living 

 plants of the mangosteen from the East Indies." A paper by the 

 president was read upon an improvement in the mode of construct- 

 ing hotbeds, but we despair of explaining it successfully without 

 Teference to figures. Among the display of fruits and flowers, 

 which were exceedingly numerous, we were particularly struck by 

 a collection of Iwenty-two varieties of strawberries from the Society's 

 garden. 



iufpon this occasion, thirty-nine new members were either bal- 

 lotted for, or proposed, a striking proof of the estimation in which 

 the Society is held by the public. 



July nth. 

 Upon this occasion, an enormous pine-cone from the River Co- 

 lumbia was exhibited. It measured 16j inches in length, and was 

 stated to have been procured by the Society's collector, Mr. David 

 Douglas. ' Its seeds were represented to be as large as those of the 

 stone-pine, and eatable.^ The tree is of the family of Pinus strobus, 



