REPORT OK SOME VARIETIES ( 



". Walcot, Esq., Lower Gore, 1 



. Reed, Esq., Oak Lodge, Kei 



IT. v\. n. itumDoia, Grange, Tunbndge Wells. 



!. Giovanelli, Esq., Stoke Newington. 



. Hambrough, Esq., Princes Terrace, Hyde Park, South. 



L. Elkington, Esq., Woodbrooke, Northfield, Worcestershir 



i. H. Keeling, Esq., Hyde Park Gate. 



Life Members, supporting the New Garden at Kensington Gore, 

 would take place on January 90, 18C0 ; and that the Council had 

 found it necessary to close the list of subscribers for Debentures, 

 the sum offered being already beyond that which would be 



XVII.— EEPORT ON SOME OF THE VARIETIES 

 OF GRAPES, IN THE LARGE CONSERVA- 

 TORY AT CHISWICK. 



The tines which now occupy the large Conservatory are 

 growing partly in an outside, and partly in an inside border. The 

 largest of them, which are chiefly those in the outside border were 

 planted in August, 1857, so that they have had but two seasons' 

 growth. Many of those which were planted in the inside at the 

 same time, were replaced by more suitable varieties, during the 

 autumn of 1858, and spring of 1859. 



The outside border was prepared in the end of July, 1857. It 

 IS 4 feet wide and about 2 feet deep, including drainage, the latter 

 consisting of several inches deep of brick-bats and rubbish so 

 that the depth of prepared soil is about 18 or 20 inches; it con- 

 sists of Wimbledon loam, and chopped turf, obtained from the 



