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the tree turned out of doors during summer and autumn. The 

 largest fruit weighed laj ounces, aud measured 12| inches in 

 circumference, and the aggregate Aveight of the three was 

 34^ ounces. The colouring is a yellow ground, beautifully and 

 closely marked with broken stripes of crimson. 



Mr. HoDDiNG, of 38, Craven Hill Gardens, W.,sent a seedling 

 Apple of a medium size, conical shape, and with a blush of dull 

 crimson on one side. - It did not possess any particular merit to 



Mr. H. J. DowDEN sent a dish of an Apple grown in the 

 neighbourhood of Bere Regis, in Dorsetshire, under the name of 

 Long Nose. The fruit is small and of a conical shape, terminat- 

 ing in a long and narrow apex. It is entirely covered with 

 russet, but as it was not ripe no opinion could be formed of its 



Mr. John Newton, gardener to G. J. Graham, Esq., East 

 Lodge, Enfield Chase, exhibited fine specimens of Ribston 

 Pippin, Margil, and King of the Pippins. 



Mr. Chaeles Tubnee, of Slough, exhibited pods of DoHellOS 



Mr. Edmoxds, of Ohiswick House, brought roots of a new 

 Turnip Radish, introduced by Dr. Erasmus Wilson, from 

 Madagascar. It is as large as an ordinary field Turnip, and is of 

 a red colour, like the Turnip called Red Round or Red Globe. 

 Mr. Cock, of Chiswick, sent specimens of Brussels Sprouts grown 

 from his own seed home-saved for many years in succession, 

 and which were quite equal to those produced by seed imported 

 from Brussels. 



XCVIII.— GENEEAL MEETING, Nov. 4, 18G1. 



A General Meeting of the Society was held on Monday, 

 Nov. 4, in the Council Room, at the Gardens, South Kensington, 

 Judge Des Baeres in the Chair, when the following candidates 

 were balloted for and elected Fellows, namely : — 



Bieknell, Algernon Sidney, 37, Onslow Square, Brompton, S.W. 



Bimstingl. Louis, 7, Coleman Street, E.G. 



Blayney, The Lord W., Carlton Club, Pall Mall, S.W. 



Cavendish, Lieut.-Col. W. H. P., Burlington Gardens, W., and Ayot St. 

 Lawrence, Wellwyn. 



Cole, Henry. C.B., 17, Onslo-w Square, Brompton, S.W. 



Cox, George Kobb, Cambridge Lodge, Arlington Park, Chiswick, W. 



Croggon, Thomas J., 22, Kensington Gardens Square, Bayswater, W. 



