EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Ordered, that the thanks of the Society \)0 tendered to Dr. Frederick Leclare, ah honorary member, for his 

 treatise on the Cure of Cholera Asiatica. 



Several fixe Plants were ExniBiTED. — Plants from James Dundas's gardener. 



From M. W. Baldwin's. The new Veronica Imperial Blue. 



From John Lambert's. Fine German Asters. 



By Robert Buist. New — Acliimeuos .Vmbrosie Vcrchatfeltii, a white, striped with violet and yellow eye, very 

 pretty cut flowers of AUamauda grandifloni ; with many designsfor baskets and bouquets from various members. 



Fruit, Ac— By Saml. W. Noble. 



By Robert Buist. 



By A. L. Felteu. 



By Mark Hill. Melons, OdcU's large white and orange. 



OCTOBER. 



BY WILLIAM SAUNDERS, 



Vegetable Gakdex. — Lifting and storing away the winter root crops will require attention 

 towards the end of the month. Beet, salsify ; carrots, parsnips, &c., keep best covered with 

 sand in a dry cellar, and are at all times of easy access. Choose a dry day for lifting, and 

 use precaution not to break the roots more than possible, especially with the two first men- 

 tioned ; the leaves of these should not be cut so close as to wound the root. Parsnips are 

 frequently left in the ground, and taken up as wanted, but, where the winters are long and 

 severe, they should be housed. 



Horseradish may now be taken up and replanted, the largest roots stored for use ; they 

 will keep till wanted, if treated as the others. 



Spinach should be thinned out, that the plants may have room to extend ; they will keep 

 over winter better when thus treated, than when allowed to crowd and grow up weakly. 

 Turnips must also be thinned, if good bulbs are expected. 



Mushrooms. — Many persons who have a fancy for these are deterred from attempting to 

 cultivate them from the supposed difficulty. They are so easily raised, that any one having 

 the convenience of a dry cellar may have them in profusion. The requisites are, short stable 

 manure, and good mushroom spawn. The manure must be prepared by being frequently 

 turned, so as to prevent excessive heating, and the bed made from six to sixteen inches in 

 thickness, according to the temperature that can be maintained. Where the temperature 

 can be kept up to 60O, the former thickness will be sufficient. The latter thickness will 

 generate sufficient warmth of itself. Insert the spawn when the heat is about 80°, and 

 cover with two inches of soil, firmly beaten, all over the bed. A covering of straw will be 

 necessary should the heat decline. Under the staging of a greenhouse, if protected from 

 the drippings of the pots, or in large pots or boxes, mushrooms may be grown without much 

 trouble or expense. 



Fkqit. — Raspherrjj plantations may be made this month ; the old plants should be pruned 

 and got in readiness for laying down against winter. 



Strawherries may yet be planted on dry grounds ; on strong, undrained lands, they will be 

 thrown on the surface by the action of frost, unless covered with tan bark or an equivalent ; 

 there is no better mode of arranging than planting in rows three feet apart, and twelve or 

 sixteen inches between the jjlants. Those in pots must now be protected from heavy rains, 

 and exposed to the sun ; it is important that the buds be perfected ; the runners ought to 

 be kept down, both on those in pots and in the ground. 



Grapes. — These will not require much attention at present ; the side-shoots and laterals 

 may be shortened a little previous to the regular winter pruning. Do not cut the fruit too 

 soon. Many jtrefer the Isabella Grape after it has been exposed to slight frost. 



Greenhouse. — In arranging the plants in their winter quarters, those of more tender nature 

 should be placed at the warmest end of the house ; these will include torenias, ixoras, lesche- 

 naultias, stepanotis, cyprepediunis, &c. ; and further to insure their safe keejiing, they should 

 receive no more water than will barely keep them from wilting. See that the drainage is 

 perfect ; this is a great point with all potted plants at this season. Young, growing plants 

 for early spring flowering, as fuchsias, calceolarias, cinerarias, x>elargonitims, and similar 

 articles, should also have a place in the warmest portion of the house, and near the glass. 

 The front shelf is a good situation for these. Temporary shelves, fixed near the roof, at any 

 convenient point of its surface, will be found useful in winter, and present a most favorable 

 position for young plants. If not over a foot in width, such a shelf will not materially in 

 terfere with the growth of plants on the lower staging. Azaleas and camellias that ind' 

 early flowering, may also be placed near the heat, to hasten them into flower. The c 



