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be preserved in tlie same manner ; they shrivel, and become 

 very delicious. Some of the pots were painted round with 

 chopped liorse-hair, tar, and salt, which has been found to 

 be a capital bar to the snail tribe. To Mr. E. G. Hender- 

 son, of the Wellington Road Nursery, St. John's Wood, 

 for Bromelia longifolia, bearing a nice head of pink flowers. 



Certificate of Merit : To Mr. Martin, Gardener to Sir H. Fleet- 

 wood, Bart., Hill House, Windsor Forest, for dishes of 

 Black and Ked Hamburgh Grapes. Some are of opinion 

 that Red Hamburghs are only badly coloured Black Ham- 

 burghs, but Mr. Martin's exhibition went to prove that this 

 is not the case, for one Vine in the centre of his Vinery 

 bore the large Grapes exhibited, which had tlie colour of an 

 Orleans Plum, though they were quite sweet and ripe, while 

 tho.se growing on either side of it produced jet black fruit, 

 which was otherwise different from the red kind. To the 

 same for very fine Morello Cherries. 



Miscellaneous Subjects of Exhibition. A flower of a 

 seedling Fancy Pelargonium, called Negro Boy ; a small 

 punnet of Black Prince Strawberry, to show tliat it is not 

 only very early, but also very late ; and a dish of Lapstone 

 Kidney Potatoes, from Mr. Cuthill, of Camberwell. The 

 latter were produced to prove that Potatoes wintered on 

 Cuthill's plan are free from disease, while those not so 

 treated, and growing in his immediate neighbourhood, were 

 stated to be more or less affected by the prevailing epidemic. 

 It was mentioned, that although his plan of wintering might 

 possibly not ensure sound Potatoes under all circumstances, 

 yet that the produce of seed so treated would be more likely 

 to escape disease than that from mismanaged sets. Mr. 

 Martin produced the Windsor Prize Melon, a small, netted, 

 green-fleshed kind, excellently flavoured ; and Mr. Mark- 

 ham sent a Cabul Melon, weighing 13 lbs. 15 oz. It was 

 stated tliat four of such Melons weighed collectively 35 lbs. 

 They had been groM'n in a rudely-constructed temporary 

 pit, merely by way of experiment. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden : — 



Sei/mour^s Golden Perfection Melon. — About 4 lbs. 

 weight, roundish or somewhat cylindrical, flattened at the 

 ends, of a beautiful golden yellow, and finely netted. In a 

 fonner season this was found very good, but tlie quality of 

 Melons is exceedingly variable: for example, the Bromham 

 Hall obtained the first prize in almost every instance last 



