years, and the Sprouts he has exhibited have been generally very 

 fine. In the present instance, however, neither the plants nor 

 the sprouts were so good as usual. 



April 5, 1859 (8, St. Martin's PZflw).— Mr. Edmonds, F.H.S., 

 in the Chair. 

 APPLES.— Mr. Toogood, Westergate Nursery, Arundel, sent 

 two seedlings : Alexander Wells, middle-sized, round, almost 

 entirely covered with russet, intermixed with crimson streaks ; 

 apparently a good apple, but rather over-ripe. Stanstead Park ; 

 this was so like the Blenheim Pippin that the Committee could 

 find no decided distinction. — Mr. Toogood also exhibited the 

 Aromatic Pippin ; and a variety called the Brandy Apple, but 

 which, though somewhat like the Golden Harvey, of which the 

 Brandy Apple is a synonym, was not the same. — From C. Strick- 

 land, Esq., F.H.S. : specimens of the Dntch. Mignonne, from 

 strong, clayey, diluvial soil at Holderness ; they were finer than 

 others grown in some parts of Yorkshire on chalk subsoil. 



April 12, 1859 (8, St. Martin's Place).— Meeting of Sub-Committee, 

 Mr. Edmonds, F.H.S., in the Chair. 

 PINE-APPLE.— A seedling, now exhibited for the first time, 

 was sent by Mr. T. C. Eluott, gardener to the Rt. Hon. the 

 Earl of Ilchester, F.H.S., Melbury House, Dorchester. Mr. 

 Elliott stated, that the variety in question was raised more than 

 ten years since, at Ripley Castle, Yorkshire, by his brother, Mr. 

 G. Elliott, gardener to the late Sir Willmm Ingilby, Bart., 

 who named it the Prince President; the plant is of robust 

 habit ; leaves broad, short, deeply striated, covered with bloom ; 

 spines about six in the inch, recurved on the lower part of the 

 leaf ; flowers purple. Fruit handsome, pyramidal, measuring 

 10^ inches from stalk to crown; length of crown, 4 inches; 

 circumference at the thickest part, 16 inches, and at top about 

 9 inches ; weight, 4 lbs. 4 ozs ; colour, orange-yellow ; pips 

 middle-sized, fl.attish, the scales covering about half the pip, and 

 the points of the bracts extending rather beyond the scales ; flesh 

 yellow, tender, exceedingly juicy, sugary, rich, and vinous. It 

 was considered of first-rate quality. Mr. Elliott stated, that 

 the plant which produced the fruit was planted out m good sound 

 loam, mixed with one-fourth part of peat and leaf mould, in a pit 

 of the pine-stove, heated by hot-water pipes beneath. 



