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provided it is well managed and kept free from frost and 

 damp. 



To Mr. Jones, Gardener to Sir John Guest, Bart., F.H.S., for a 

 Ripley Queen Pine Apple, weighing 6 lbs. 3 oz. 



To Mr. Frost, Gardener to Lady Grenville, F.PI.S., for a 

 Black Jamaica Pine Apple, weighing 5i lbs. 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



I. Anderson, Esq., of Maryfiekl, near Edinburgh, contributed 

 cut specimens of a Seedling Veronica, which appeared to be less 

 handsome than the same raiser's V. Andersonii. It wanted the 

 charming mixture of violet and white which makes the latter so 

 beautiful. 



Mr. Kennedy, of Covent Garden, sent a narrow-leaved variety 

 of Scolopeudrum officinale from Yorkshire. 



Mr. Stark, of Edinburgh, produced a purple and lilac flowered 

 Portuguese Linaria, called Arabida, which was stated to be new 

 to gardens. 



From Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston, came half a dozen nice 

 plants of Odontoglossum grande, whicli liad been seven weeks in 

 full bloom. Messrs. Jackson stated tliat this was effected by 

 placing the plants, when the flower-buds were fully grown, in a 

 cold but well-shaded, airy conservatory, where their beauty was 

 enjoyable by those who could not venture into a hot and damp 

 orcliid-house. It was mentioned that this is one of tlie hardiest 

 of exotic Orchids, and that it has been even bloomed out of 

 doors during summer under the shade of a Laurel bush. 



Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgewortii, contributed some Stiawberry 

 plants in pots, illustrative of a new mode of preparing tiiem fur 

 forcing. Tiieir history, as given by Mr. Rivers, is as follows : — 

 " About the second week in July the pots (6-inch ones) wei'e 

 filled with a compost of two-thirds loam and one-third rotten 

 dung, jis follows : three stout pieces of broken pots were placed 

 in the bottom, and a full handful of the compost put in ; a stout 

 wooden pestle was then used with all tlie force of a man's arm 

 to pound it, then another handful and a pounding, and anotiier till 

 the pot was brimful, and the compressed mould as hard as a 

 barn-floor. Tiiey were tlien taken to the Strawberry-beds, and 

 a runner placed in the centre of each, with a small stone to 

 keep it steady. They were watered in dry weather, and they 

 have had no other care or culture. For two or three years I have 

 had the very finest crops from plants after this method, and those 

 under notice promise well. If the pots are lifted, it will be ap- 



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