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Directions by the President, for a more successful method of 

 cultivating the Guernsey Lily was read. 



A proof of the efficacy of transplanting onions was shewn by 

 Mr. David Anderson, gardener to the Viscount Montague, at 

 Ditton Park. The onions were sown in September 1818; some 

 were transplanted the first week in the succeeding March, and 

 others suffered to remain in the seed-bed. The two sorts were 

 shewn, and the transplanted bulbs more than tripled in size and 

 weight those which were suffered to remain. 



Mr. Richard Williams of Turnham Green, also exhibited three 

 onions sown in October, and transplanted in the spring, which 

 together weighed three pounds four ounces. 



A very fine pine, called the Welbeck Seedling, sent by the 

 Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., was tasted, and 

 greatly admired. 



The Blood Red Pine, a very handsome variety, grown by Mr. 

 John Wilmot of Isleworth, was tasted, as were numerous speci- 

 mens of almost every fruit in season. 



August 17th. An account was read of the Fig-tree, planted 

 in 1648, and which is now growing in the garden of Christ 

 Church College, Oxford, by Mr. William Baxter, curator of the 

 botanic garden at Oxford, and a corresponding member of the 

 Society. 



A description was also read of two very extraordineury trained 

 mulberry-trees, now growing in the gardens of Thomas William 

 Coke, Esq., M. P., at Holkham Hall, Norfolk. 



A very great profusion of fine fruits was tasted ; amongst 

 them were specimens of the figs from the Pocock fig-tree at Ox- 

 ford, and from Cardinal Pole's fig-tree, growing in the garden at 

 Lambeth Palace. 



September 7th. An account of a new strawberry, raised by 

 the President, was read. This variety is described as being a 

 great acquisition, from its large size and beauty, and from its ex- 

 quisite high flavour. 



An account was also read of a successful method of raising 

 laige onions, by planting small bulbs early in the year, by Mr, 

 John West, gardener to the Marquis of Northampton. 



