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from M. de Gontier, near Paris, in June, 1850. The fruit 

 resembles the smooth-leaved Cayenne, but in growth the 

 plant is very much like a strong-growing Queen." Mr. D. 

 adds, " It will prove to be a good winter sort. The smooth- 

 leaved Cayenne sent is from a plant not quite sixteen months 

 old, and now that the fruit is cut, the plant, with all the 

 roots attached, weighs 6 lbs., and a sucker taken from it 

 weighed 2x lbs. We grow all our plants in loam and 

 rough peat, planted out over troughs." 



To Mr. Higgs, Gardener to J. Barchard, Esq., F.H.S., for a 

 very fine cluster of the fruit of Musa Cavendishii. The 

 bunch consisted of upwards of 90 fruits, most of which 

 were ripe, and upon some of them being' cut up and tasted 

 they proved to be very good. Tiiis was from the dwarf 

 variety of this Musa. 



Certificate of Merit : — 



To Mr. Povey, Gardener to the Kev. J. Thornycroft, F.H.S., 

 for a Black Jamaica Pine-apple, weighing 4 lbs. 9 oz. 



To Mr. Snow, Gardener to the Earl de Grey, F.H.S., for a 

 very pretty hybrid Epiphyllum, which was stated to have 

 been raised between E. Russellianum and E, truncatum ; 

 it was deeper in colour and better shaped than either of its 

 parents. 



II.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Models of proposed glass walls, the invention of Mr. Ewen, 

 gardener to O. F. Meyrick, Esq., F.H.S., Bodorgan, Anglesea, 

 Tliese consisted of a line of flat iron uprights, nine feet high, firmly 

 secured to the ground so that no displacement might be possible. 

 The edges of these uprights were pierced with holes, through 

 which wires were stretched horizontally whereon to train branches. 

 At the distance of a foot from both faces of the uprights a per- 

 pendicular sash of glass was erected. The sashes were housed in 

 Avith a glass coping, so constructed as to throw water off' into 

 gutters prepared for its removal. Finally, the upright sashes 

 had a free motion to the right or left, in order that every part of 

 the trellis work might readily be uncovered, and made accessible. 

 In fact, the glass wall will be a glass case 9 or 10 feet high and 

 about 2 feet thick, perfectly transparent, within which all manner 

 of plants may be trained in the espalier form in a double line, 

 one line facing the south, the other the north, or otherwise, 

 according to the direction of the wall. It was mentioned that 

 one of these glass walls, from which much is expected, was to be 



