Ixxviii PROCEEDINGS. 



To Mr. Hill, Gardener to R. Sneyd, Esq., F.H.S., Keele, 

 Newcastle, Staffordshire, for good samples of Muscat and 

 Black Hamburgh Grapes. 



To John Abell, Esq., of Limerick, for a collection of Pears 

 from trees chiefly worked on Quince stocks. Although 

 the specimens were not large, they were handsomely formed 

 and nicely coloured, and consisted of the following sorts, 

 viz., Beurre Diel, Easter Beurre, Spring Beurre, Beurre 

 Ranee, Beurre Tuerlinckx, Catillac, Vicar of Winkfield. 

 Winter Nelis, Ne plus Meuris, Susette de Bavay, Rouse 

 Lench, Glou Morceau, Eliza d'Heyst, and Poire d'Avril. 



To Mr. Fleming, C.M.H.S., Gardener to the Duke of 

 Sutherland, F.H.S., at Trenthara, for Sericographis Ghies- 

 breghtiana. This was a well grown and nicely flowered 

 specimen. It was exhibited in a hard green glazed pot, as 

 an example to show that plants may be as successfully 

 cultivated in pots of that description, as in the common 

 porous garden pot. 



To Messrs. Henderson and Co., Pine Apple Place, Edgeware 

 Road, for Hebeclinium aurantilbura. A Mexican plant 

 with flowers somewhat resembling those of a Marigold, but 

 of a brilliant orange colour. 



To Mr. Frederick Brewer, of Pine Apple Place, Edgeware 

 Road, for a model to show his mode of making Reed coverings 

 for Pits and Frames. This is a very simple contrivance, 

 and answers the purpose most admirably. It may be said 

 to resemble a small clothes-horse, with upright spars in it, 

 to which is fastened a slight wooden frame by means of 

 moveable pins. The wheaten straw is laid evenly between 

 the skeleton frames, and tied with tarred twine at the dis- 

 tance of 9 inches or a foot across ; another layer of straw is 

 tlien introduced and secured in the same manner as the 

 first : this process is continued until the frame is full. The 

 pins are then withdrawn to allow the covering to slip down, 

 after which tliey are replaced, and the frame is ready for 

 filling again. In this way Mr. Brewer stated that a straw 

 covering, 6 feet long and 4 feet wide, and quite equal to a 

 double mat, could be made for ninepence, including labour 

 and material. 



