XXXll FROCEKDINGS. 



Pansy as an early blooming- plant. They had been in 

 flower about a month, and they were still covered with 

 blossoms, which, under proper treatment, would continue to 

 be produced till the end of May. They had been grown in 

 a common 3 light box, from which the liglits were removed 

 during fine weather. 



To Messrs. Veitcli, for a Posoqueria (?) from the Organ 

 mountains, possessing an elegant habit, and bearing quanti- 

 ties of long creamy white, peculiarly scented flowers. 



To Mr. Chapman, Gardener to J. B, C41egg, Esq., F.H.S., 

 for a smooth-leaved Cayenne Pine Apple, weighing of Ib^. 



To Mr. Allport, Gardener to H. Akroyd, Esq., Doddington 

 Park, Nantwich, Cheshire, for a dish of black Hamburgh 

 Grapes. 



To Mr. Law, Gardener to E. J. Sliirley, Esq., of Eatington 

 Park, Stratford-on-Avon, fur a dish of forced Peaches from 

 trees growing in pots. They \^•ere quite ripe, but not very 

 large or well coloured. 



To Mr. M'Ewen, Gardener to the Duke of Norfolk, F.H.S., 

 at Arundel, for five pots of Keens' Seedling Strawberry, 

 and one of Alice Maude. They were loaded with large and 

 well-ripened fruit. Concerning the kind of treatment they 

 had received Mr. M'Ewen says: — '' We begin putting the 

 early runners in 3-inch pots about the middle of June, and 

 not later than the middle of July. They are transferred as 

 soon as rooted into the fruiting pots, which are well drained 

 and filled with soil composed of three-fourths sandy loam 

 and one-fourth decayed night-soil and leaf-mould. The pots 

 are then placefl on boards in an open square of the kitchen 

 garden, and plunged in any light material. This prevents 

 frequent watering ; the plants are placed so thin that not a 

 leaf of one touches another. Wiien the pots are well filled 

 with roots we water twice a week with liquid manure. In 

 the winter the pots are placed on their sides so as to form a 

 riilge. They are forced by introducing them for a few days 

 into cold frames and pits, and they are Jloivei^ed, set, and 

 swelled ojf on a spare shelf at the very top of a fruiting 

 pine pit, in a heat ranging from 70° to 75°, sometimes 20° 

 more. To flavour them we place them in a cold frame, and 

 in fine weather expose them fully for three or four days." 



III.— MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS OF EXHIBITION. 



Messrs. Henderson sent a little tree of the Oleander-leaved 

 Eriostemon, and a nice pyramidal plant of E. intermedia ; also 



