742 London Ilorticultitral Socic/j/ and Garden. 



Keswick Xiirxoy ; j\fr. Kerr. — This nursery, which contains 12 acres, 

 was established aliout the beginnino; of this century. The present occupier 

 lias only entered upon it lately and, from a state of neglect, is bringing it 

 into order and keeping. The articles grown have hitherto been chiefly 

 forest trees ; but Mr. Kerr contemi)lates a general collection. There arc, a 

 green-house stocked with camellias and pelargoniums; a large specimen of 

 Pyri\s ralicifolia, and of the gold-blotched beech ; and a new seedling 

 7/hododendron maxinuun, of more free growth tlian the parent ; a small 

 seed-shop ; and a few books, lent out gratis to such gardeners as feel inclined 

 to borrow them. 



Art. V. London llortlcidhiral Society and Garden. 



Oct. 2. 1832. — Bead. A paper on the striped Iloisanec Persian 

 melon, by the author of the Domalic Gar(Icncr''s Manual. 



Exhibited. Flowers. Seedling georgiuas, from Mr. Ingram, of the royal 

 gardens, Frogmore. A collection ofgeorginas, from Mr. K. Chandler. A 

 collection of georginns, three species of Salpiglussis, and Chinese roses, 

 from Mrs. Murryatt, F.H. S. Georginas, from Mr. \Vn). Hogg, Paddington. 

 ( 'ollection of georginas, and also of Livick's incomparable georgina, from 

 Mr. James Young, F. H. S. A collection of georginas, from Mr. John 

 l..ee. — Fruit. Tnunpet gourd, from the Marquess of Salisbur}'. Black 

 prince, White Frontignac, and lilack Hamburgh grapes, from Mr. George 

 Leslie, gardener to J. Fleming, Esq., Hunt's (^reen. Adelaide apple, and 

 (ianscl's bergamot pear, from Thomas Hunt, Ksq. Fifty-four sorts of 

 apple. Prince's golden nectarine, antl Kosanna peach, from a standard, 

 from INIr. Joseph Kirke. Money's new St. Peter's, Escholata superb, 

 and West's black St. Peter's grapes, from Mr. D. Money. IMjIal) vulgaris 

 (from the open air), from Mr. 11. Little, Gloucester Place, King's Road. 



From the Garden of the Socictij. Flowers. ».%lvia cardinalis, splendens, 

 rliamacdryoiilcs, angnstifolin, and Graham/'; Fuchsirt niicrophylla, /yupinus 

 ornatus, Amarylli.v Belladonna, T^'rica Bowier/Hw, Erio[/hyllum ciespitosum, 

 7'Mj;eron sp.from Douglas; (teorginas. — Fruit. Peaches: Abricotee, Cathe- 

 rine, Chiincellor, I'raddick's North American; Sanguinole, Melting; 

 President, late Admirable, preferable to any of the precediuij;. Apples: 

 l\aml)our, large white Calviile, Manks eodlin ; Vv'ornishy pippin, a good 

 l)t:arer; (irey Leadington ; Ivcinette de Lark, worthy of recommendation ; 

 Autumn peanuain. Scarlet (jueening, Drap d'or. Hoary morning, Nelson. 

 Pears: Flemish beauty, specinicu smaller than usual; Veriaine d'Ete, Beurre 

 do (!aiiiauniont. Belle et bonne; Fondantz d'autoinne, a very melting new 

 sort, which at this piU'ticular season will prove an accpiisition for suppU ing a 

 kind of blank in the ripening of good sorts; Ft)rme de Beurre l)u(iuesne, 

 Hergamotte Dertrycker, Belotte ; Poire figue, synonyme Pistolette, and 

 is the Knevett's [)ear of the London n?arket, also received as Prince dc 

 Lignc, and Incoir.uic Angoideme; Calebasse, IJeine des poires ; Alpha, a 

 seedling raised by Mr. Braddick, good bearer; Dufpiesne d'l^te, Cadet dc 

 Vaux, Jalousie, Styrian. Grapes: White Nice, Wortley Hall, seedling; 

 White Portugal, an excellent bearer. Onions: Tripoli, S|)anish. 



Oft. 10. — Head. A paper on the protliiction of early peas, by Mr. 

 T. Blake, F. U.S. A description of the varieties of cherry cultivated in 

 the garilen of tiie Society, by Mr. Kobert Thompson. A paper on the 

 cultivation of the (jiieen pine-ap[)le, by Mr. George Warren, gardener to 

 Henry J. (irant, Es(|. F.H.S. 



K.vhiljited. Twenty-two sorts of api)le, royal nuiscadine grapes from a 

 south wall, and fruit of the same kind Iron) a vineyard on a south border, 



