Horticultural Society, 427 



October IQth. 



The first number of a new periodical work, called the Porno- 

 logical Magazine^ consisting of coloured figures of the fruits 

 cultivated in Great Britain, was placed upon the table. Among 

 the apples were specimens of a variety sent from England 

 to Connecticut, in the year 1636, and reimported from America 

 within a few years. It proved to be a kind not known at the 

 present day in this country, but still cultivated in France. In 

 the gardening books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 

 it is mentioned under the name of the haute bont6. The 

 specimens exhibited served to disprove the opinion that many 

 of the American apples are European kinds altered by climate ; 

 these, although the produce of trees which have been growing 

 in America for nearly two hundred years, differed in no respect 

 from French samples exhibited at a subsequent meeting of the 

 Society. 



November 6th, 



An excellent paper was read upon the method of cultivating 

 horse radish, in Denmark. The roots are cut into slips, and 

 planted horizontally, the lower end inclining a little upwards, 

 and the crown of the plant hanging over the alleys, by which 

 the beds are separated. From time to time the roots are un- 

 covered, and all the lateral fibres are carefully removed, by 

 which the size and length of the roots are much increased. 

 The place hitherto occupied by dahlias, Avas now taken by 

 Chinese chrysanthemums, of which a large number, consisting 

 of twenty-two different varieties, was exhibited at the bottom of 

 the room. 



November 20th. 



Cuttings of the fine new Portugal grape, of which fruit was 

 exhibited on the 18th of September, were distributed to the 

 members present. A few dahlia flowers still showed themselves, 

 notwithstanding the unusual severity of some early frosts, and 

 the room was crowded with chrysanthemums. The gloux mor- 

 ceau and beurr^ d'Aremberg pears were tasted, and found to 

 retain the statiop which has been assigned to them ^ the head 

 of all known varieties. 



