TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



VOLUME I. 



Original Communications : — 



Article Page 



I. Some Account of an Orchideous House, constructed at 

 Penllergare, South Wales. By J. D. Llewelyn, Esq., 



F.H.S 5 



'^IL Observations, Botanical and Physiological, on the Potato 

 Murrain. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 

 (With four plates) ....... 9 



III. Chemical Observations on the Cause of the Potato Murrain. 



By Edward Solly, F.R.S., Experimental Chemist to the 

 Horticultural Society, &c. ...... 35 



IV. Memoranda relating to the Cultivation of Melons. By John 



Williams, Esq., C.M.H.S 42 



V. Local Habitation and Wants of Plants. By the Hon. and 



Very Rev. William Herbert, F.H.S. , Dean of Manchester 44 

 VI. The Main Points of Vine Cultivation. By Mr. Robert 



Errington ........ 50 



VII. Mode of Cultivating the Mango in England. By Mr. A. 



Scott 54 



VIII. The Cultivation of the Starry Dysophyl, a Tropical Annual. 



By Mr. T. Moore . . . . . . .56 



IX. Some Account of the Cryptomeria Japonica, or Japan Cedar. 



By Mr. George Gordon, A.L.S 57 



X. On the Propagation of Orchids in India. By Captain Charles 



Giberne, Acting Paymaster, S. Division of the Army . 60 

 XI. On the Influence of Electricity on Vegetation. By Edward 

 Solly, F.R.S., F.L.S., Hon. Memb. Pvoyal Agricultural 

 Society, Experimental Chemist to the Hort. Soc, &c. . 81 

 XII. On the Ventilation of early Forcing-houses. By Mr. 



Thomas Moore 110 



XIII. A Note upon the Wild state of Maize, or Indian Corn. By 



the Vice-Secretary . . . . . . .114 



XIV. Some Account of the Jefferson Plum. By Mr. Robert 



Thompson, Superintendent of the Orchard and Kitchen- 

 Garden Department, in the Societj-'s Garden {with a 

 Colotired Plate) . . . . . . .117 



XV. Outlines of a Natural History Calendar at Foo-chow-foo, the 

 capital of the Chinese province of Fokien (lat. 2G^ 4' S., 

 long. 119° 4' E.). By the late G. Tradescant Lay, Esq., 

 F.C.M.H.S., Her Majesty's Consul at that place . .119 



XVI. Memorandum concerning the Pine-apple Soil of the Bahamas. 

 In a letter from the Hon. John Campbell Lees, C.M.H.S., 

 dated Nassau, New Providence, Feb. 8, 1845 . . 126 



XVII. A Notice of Simmons's Patent Hygrometer. By the Vice- 

 Secretary . . . . . . . .127 



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