TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



VOLUME III. 



Original Cosimunications : — 



Article rage 



I. On the Arrangement of Gardens and Pleasure-G rounds in 

 the Elizabethan Age. Communicated by the Vice- 

 Secretary ........ 1 



II. A short Account of Col. Feilding's Coryanth (Coryanthes 



Feildingii). By the Vice-Secretary . . • .15 



III. Memorandum of an Experiment on the Continued Culti- 



vation of Wheat, in the Gardens of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety, By Edward Solly, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry 

 to the Society . . . . . . . .13 



IV. The Potato, its Condition in 1847. By George John 



Towers, CM.H.S. 22 



V. Memoranda respecting the Cannon Hall Muscat Grape. 



By Alexander Wilson, Gardener at Cannon Hall " . 26 



VI. On the Cultivation of British Orchids. By Mr. David 

 Cameron, C.M.H.S., late Curator of the Botanic Garden, 

 Birmingham ........ 28 



VII. An Experiment in Planting. By Peter Mackenzie, of 



West Plean, Stirling 33 



VIII. On the Conditions of Growth necessary to the Production 

 of Bloom in Inga pulcherrima. By William Wood, 

 Fishergate Nurseries, York ..... 34 



IX. On a form of Scab in Potatoes. By the Eev. M. J. Berke- 

 ley, M.A., F.L.S 37 



X. Observations upon the best Methods of Packing Seeds for 



a Voyage to India or China. By Eobert Fortune . 41 



XI. Some Account of the " Black Prince Hamburgh " Grape. 



By John Williams, of Pitmaston, C.M.H.S. . . 44 



XII. Account of Experiments made in the Garden of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, in 1847, with reference to the Potato 

 Disease. By Robert Thompson .... 46 



XIII. Notes on the Wild Potato. By John Lindley, Ph. D., 



F.R.S., Vice-Secretary 65 



XIV. A Notice of some species of Rhododendron inhabiting Bor- 



neo. By John Lindley, Ph. D., F.R.S., Vice-Secretary 81 



XV. On a peculiar form of Mildew in Onions. By the Rev. 



M. J. Berkeley, M. A., F.L.S 91 



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