XXVI PROCEEDINGS. 



trusses of bloom weekly. I would next point to an old 

 stump of P. album multiflorum, one cut of about two dozen 

 such old stumps that were placed in my Polmaise-house, 

 with the expectation of gathering- from them a few early 

 blooms. Had the plants been shifted, or any particular 

 ■ care taken of them, there is no doubt that the blossoms 

 would have been much finer ; but I rather chose to let them 

 be bloomed under a disadvantage. The cut flowers pro- 

 duced are from those old stimips. I also exhibit a small 

 specimen plant of Beck's Cleopatra, in an 8-inch pot, grown 

 by the side of the others, but with a little more care. It 

 is not yet quite in bloom, but its trusses promise to be all I 

 can wish. It is short and bushy, and needs no sticks to 

 support it. So much for Pelargoniums and Polmaise. The 

 Camellia is quite at home in my house, plants having been 

 blooming with me the whole of the winter without dropping 

 their buds ; so also are the Acacia, the Cytisus, the Cinera- 

 ria, the Fuchsia, the Rose, and the Cyclamen, all of which 

 I have had in good bloom in my Polmaise-house through 

 the Avinter. The house in which these were grown was 

 built last spring, and is heated by one of Mr. Lewis's ten- 

 guinea stoves. Ifr is 60 feet long, 18 feet 6 inches wide, 

 and 9 feet high, span-roofed, faces north-east and south-west, 

 and consequently is fully exposed to the keen searching 

 winds of last month, during which I had no difficulty in 

 keeping up a temperature of 56^^ Fahr." Mr. Dauris, gar- 

 dener to Dr. Dymond, of Bolton Hall, produced an En- 

 ville Pine Apple weighing 4 lbs. 6 oz. It was stated to 

 have been cut from a plant 2^ years old, which was planted 

 out in a pit heated by steam. Tlie Pines at Bolton Hall 

 were mentioned to have been much infested by scale some 

 years ago ; but having been dressed at that time with a 

 composition (mentioned at page 79, Part I. of volume I.) 

 resembling black paint, invented by Mr. Dauris, this pest 

 has not reappeared, although it is stated at the page just 

 referred to that the mixture did not succeed with other 

 plants. 



Novelties from the Society's Garden, A well-bloomed 

 Inga pulcherrima, whose gay crimson flowers remain in 

 beauty for a considerable time after being cut ; and Eche- 

 veria retusa, a pretty dwarf species, with leaves edged with 

 red, raised from seeds received from Mr. Hartweg in Fe- 

 bruary, 1846, and said to have been collected on rocks near 

 Anganguco, in Mexico. 



Flowers of Chimonanthus fragrans and grandiflorus, to- 



