623 REPORT ON THE CABBAGES GROWN IN THE GARDEN 



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Lillum 7i{ljJicrrens€, a one-flowered sort, ^\^th long tubed horizontal 

 flowerfi of a yellovvish or greenish white, very sweetly scented. 



From Mr. Tilleky, gardener to the Duke of Poiitland, Welbeck : 



Spircva callosa fai'ieg at a, sl sport observed in the gardens at "Welbeck, 



some four or five years since, and which has proved quite permanent. 



The leaves were variously margined and otherwise marked with 



cream colour, and the young shoots were stated m addition to have 



a tinge of red, rendering it a beautiful object. 

 Adde^tda. — The Dendrobe noticed at, p. 541, as having been shown by 



Messrs. Low & Co., has since been named DendroVam nodatuni. 



LXXIII.— REPORTS OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



Ju7ie llth, 18G2. — Mr, Edmonbs in the Chair. 



This was a suh-comniittee Meeting on the occasion of the Great 

 June Show, at whicli Mr. David Thomson Akcherpielb, N.B., 

 exhibited a hunch of his grape called Archerfield Early Muscat. 

 This produces a very large long tapering hunch, -which is v/ell 

 set. The herries are large and long, oval in every respect like 

 those of Muscat of Alexandria, than which it is from a month to 

 six weeks earlier. Along with this were exhibited portions of 

 hunches of Bo wood Muscat, Tynningham Muscat, and Muscat of 

 Alexandria, all of which were quite green and hard, while the 

 Archerfield Early Muscat was all but ripe and had a fine Muscat 

 flavour- It received a First Class Certificate. 



LXXIV.— EEPORT ON THE CABBAGES GROWN 



IN THE GARDEN DURING THE SUMMER 

 OF 18G3. 



By Robert Hogg, LL.D., FX.S. ■ 



Of the 01 varieties of Cabbages examined, the following were 

 the only distinct sorts : Fulham or Early Battersea, Atkins's 

 Matchless, Sugar Loaf, Early Plaw, and Early York. 



Fulham , . . F. Dakcer, J. Jkssop, C, Bagley, 



As the type of the Fulham or Battersea Cabbage, that was 

 selected which is grown by those experienced cultivators Mr. 

 Charles Jessop, of Chiswick ; Mr. Francis Dancer, of Little 

 Sutton, Turnham' Green; and Mr. Charles Bagley, of Fulham. 

 The care ^hich these gentlemen bestow upon the selection of 



