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bordering on Lincolnshire and in Yorkshire ; it was larger than 

 the foregoing, and varied from a round to a somewhat cylindrical 

 shape, the skin not so highly coloured, though marked with 

 broken streaks of crimson ; eye small and closed ; stalks three- 

 fourths of an inch long, slender, set in a deep and rather wide 

 cavity; flesh yellowish, tender and briskly flavoured. When 

 cooked, though in better condition than the Winter Strawberry, 

 it was of decidedly inferior quality. — From Mr. M'Donald, 

 gardener to the Right. Hon. W. F. Tighe, Esq., Woodstock 

 Park, Inistiogue : Gloria Mundi, large, well grown, and well 

 kept ; Lewis's Incomparable ; Golden Pearmain, very fine ; 

 Blenheim Pippin ; and London Pippin. Unfortunately these 

 had all been in contact with musty straw, or some material of a 

 similar description, and their natural flavour was destroyed. 



LOQUAT.— K GuNTEE, Esq., F.H.S., East Hill, Wands- 

 worth, exhibited a bunch of the fruit of the Loquat {Eriohotrya 

 Japonica). The specimens were considered fine examples of this 

 kind of fruit ; they were about as large as a pigeon's egg, and of 

 a long ovate shape ; the skin thin and delicate, fine pale golden 

 yellow, enclosing a good substance of very tender juicy sweetish 

 or subacid flesh, and from three to four large seeds. The fruit 

 was produced at the warm end of a greenhouse, from a plant 

 potted in rich soil, and top-dressed annually. Though a creditable 

 production, this was not regarded as a fruit desirable for cultiva- 

 tion, except as a curiosity. 



EHUBARB. — From Mr. Newton, gardener to J. G. Gkaham, 

 Esq., Enfield Chase : Baldry's Scarlet Defiance (p. 158). It 

 was on this occasion produced in a pot in a growing state, and 

 had been forwarded in a greenhouse ; it seemed to be a prolific 

 variety, producing as before, thick dark red tender stalks. 



February 9, 1860. The Rev. Joshua Dix in the Chair. 



The arrangements to be made for carrying out the experimental 



trials of New Flowers and Plants at Chiswick, which the Council 



had entmsted to the Committee, having been discussed, it was 



