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and will be an invaluable acquisition to our forests, if it should 

 prove to succeed as well in this climate as in its own. We have 

 already given some account of this plant in the last number of the 

 old series of this Journal, The usual display was made of the finest 

 fruit and flowers of the season. 



August 7th, 



A complete coloured set of the costly Flora danica was placed 

 upon the table, having been presented by His Majesty the King of 

 Denmark. An improved apparatus for fumigating hothouses was 

 exhibited by its inventor, Mr. John Read: it consists of a brass 

 cylinder, attached to the orifice of a pair of bellows, and fitted up 

 with a chimney and draft-hole closed by a valve. The tobacco is put 

 into the cylinder and ignited, and the blast from the bellows expels 

 the smoke. The contrivance is ingenious enough, but while a hot- 

 house fifty feet long, may be filled with smoke in ten minutes by 

 means of a flower-pot, with a hole in its bottom, and a common 

 pair of bellows, we cannot recommend any more expensive, and 

 certainly less efficient apparatus. 



The table was covered with a profusion of fruits and flowers. 



August 2lst, 

 The meeting-room this day exhibited a gratifying proof of the 

 excellence of the productions of our English gardens. O^ flowers, 

 there were dahlias of the richest colours, and the most varied hues ; 

 some produced by plants that retain all their ancient stature, and 

 others by dwarfs which seem to have lost nearly every character of 

 the dahlia but its beauty. Of fruits, there were endless varieties 

 of apricots, apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, grapes, pine-apples, 

 and melons ; one of the latter, from the garden of John Fuller, Esq., 

 weighed thirteen pounds. The best apricot was the Moorpark ; the 

 best apple, the Duchess of Oldenburg, than which no princess has a 

 fairer bloom, the best pear the Jargonelle, the best peach the Bour- 

 dine (forced), the best pine apple the Black Jamaica. We mention 

 these as a guide to our readers, in their purchases of fruit-trees ; 

 for it is certain, that no greater service can be rendered to the public, 

 than to point out the means by which they may avoid encumbering 

 themselves with the polyonymous trash with which every nursery 

 abounds. 



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