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erected in the Garden of the Society, where its merits will be 

 fully tested and reported on. 



Mr. Salter, F.H.S., Hammersmith, sent a collection of Pom- 

 pone Chrysanthemums in a cut state, the produce of crosses 

 between Mr. Fortune's Chusan Daisy and some of the larger 

 flowered kinds. 



A Black Jamaica Pine-apple, weighing 3 lbs. 9 oz., was shown 

 by Mr. Bundy, Gardener to Lord Dynevor, F.H.S. " It was 

 grown in a house where the bottom heat of the plunging bed is 

 supplied by a common brick-built Polmaise stove, the flue from 

 the furnace running round the house to supply top or atmos- 

 pheric heat, a system of warming pine-houses which has been 

 found to answer admirably here." 



Grapes, attached to the branches, shrivelled, and in the con- 

 dition of raisins, but showing that they had perfectly ripened, were 

 exhibited by J. Hogg, Esq., of King's Bench Walk, Temple. 

 " I have sent," says Mr. Hogg, " a branch of a Vine bearing 

 grapes, which I succeeded in ripening perfectly in the 0})e7i air, 

 in a very northern district of England, viz., about 54° 35' N. lat., 

 at Norton, distant two miles north of Stockton-on-Tees. During 

 the greatest part of half a century I have never witnessed grapes 

 that had been ripened there out of doors ; indeed, the three or 

 four vines, trained to south sides of houses, which I know of in 

 that neighbourhood, have never, to my own knowledge, matured 

 their fruit ; and this is fully confirmed by the late able botanist, 

 Mr. N. Winch, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, who for very many years 

 resided there, and was fully acquainted with the horticulture of 

 the north of England. He records in his interesting ' Essay on 

 the Geographical Distribution of Plants through the Counties 

 of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Durham' (2nd edit., 1825, 

 p. 16), that 'the Vine seldom flowers ; and if by chance small 

 grapes are produced, they soon drop off'.' The Vine which bore 

 the grapes exhibited is the Black Cluster ; for several years it 

 Avas cultivated in my hothouse, where it always ripened much 

 fruit. Two or three years since I dug it up, and planted in its 

 stead a newer sort of vine ; and as I wanted to ascertain whether, 

 in a fiavourable season, it would continue to bring forth grapes, 

 and at all ripen them out of doors, I placed it against a south 

 brick wall, having first cut it down to nearly a third of its height. 

 It had not grown again sufficiently tall until this year so as to 

 overtop an adjoining holly-tree, which had previously oversha- 

 dowed it. I was glad to see that it flowei'ed freely in July last. 

 The grapes became perfectly formed in August, and I first no- 

 ticed tliat a few berries here and there began to change colour on 

 September 18th. In October the many bunches had become a 



