THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



•^fflilSy.S BOber » the i ° dustl S' 



»lluded to ; the "teao*,^ unkindne s3 from thi 

 s tri*ing to0 ,°"7 qnbiect to all kinds of injustn 



household, who loo i oov „ n - to sneak for 1 



i been obtained in a similar 

 n of paying for them ■ will 

 e tradesmen respecting such 



or to jour Paper. 



garden for consump- 



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 ,™SWe been an eye-witness. Do you send 

 dI 7 of Strawberries comprising half a dozen conspicu- 

 .u ™w«. than the rest, that half-dozen has been 

 JHdcS ib a bonne louche long before the dish 

 srmes at table. Do you send in a dish of handsome 

 Peaches, they are squeezed and fingered until they are 



Peaches, they 

 your Celery 



them carefully \ Do you grov 

 i& of your arm, it is reduced ti 

 of your finger before " John 



strate you are told that you have nothing to do 

 with "the things" after they_ have entered the 



be gardener's 



re perhaps rare ; btt 

 would not be regret i 



the gardener and everything coming 



sider themselves to be completely our superiors. Now 



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Horticultural, Jan. 16.— J. J. Bland y, Esq.,^ 

 President, in the chair. G. B. Cole and G. T. Do , 



total Fellows. The new Bj ( 

 had been read at two previous meetings, and suspended 

 The meeting 

 d to ballot for the repeal of the old 

 laws. The Vice President announced the repeal 

 " by 13 ayes to noes. A ballot (1m 



ballot was found to be 12 ayes and noes ; 



9 Vice President declared the new Bye-laws to be 

 rried according to the ].r..< i-i rs : th ? chai ter. r.,.1 

 be the future laws of the Society. With regard to 

 subjects of exhibition, Messrs. Henderson, of Pine- 

 place sent a small ■ ' 



from Guatemala, and a specimen of Sericographis 



breghtiana, which, however, did- not exhibit the 



haracter of this (when well grown) fine plant, the 



naturally of a deep green, 



and the red tubular flowers wanting in brightness. 



This was the more appareir. 



me plant from the Society's gar- 

 in the best of health, the leaves 



deep green, and t! 



strong; wood as possible n 



ie greater length of t 

 that portion of wood tr 

 i would be pruned aw; 



l no pruning were pe 

 not pruned. Now t 



of the h™, \ 6 . ma «er in the upper portion 

 SfttaJV^ 18 t0 the ^oots P produced 

 and I Sal'. I » ■ pUrely physiological question, 

 [We arfiTf • • g , lf y° u wil1 notice it. G. 



J a "other poit of n S^f" fiard8 ° rganic funct ions. 

 Jy*eatber it will ejhXmoiY™" * USde8S '' ™ 



^S'i^.yoLd the tricks of a lot of 

 ta^eaman, impilj? ord «* J^m any too confiding 



' **B called upon by a Btraneer to 



K «* stJa, 8 ^ff of CnanipC ofTSan 

 eia of Fairbeard's Sn 



of goods in this 

 Scotch Rye-grass i 



Guardian Society of ! 



friends on whom they could rely, to ki 

 ought to be executed, and not to simply ta 

 swindlers' reference, which they are all prepare 

 and which is to one of their own party. I had a 



for at least a month to come, it will be a use 

 to our late Grapes. The white variety loc 



I on being asked for a reference, 



«irui 



There 



London last week ; he is rather short 



complexion, of rather respectable app< 



ighbourhood 



in Lord A.'s gardens,* " 



there nearly four years, and has "not long been out 



ields Prison, but is now at lai 



■fam where he can ; I beg to 



a regular impostor, as most of those are that go abo 



in the same sort of way. J. Stewart, P utney, Jan. 17 



cially.Strawberri.es, with 



also long pipes of the 



Celery, Cardoons, and i 



iles of enamelled lal 



plant-houses, if not in the open garden. From the 

 Garden of the Society came flowers of Chimonanthus 

 : 



- 

 ee varieties of Epacris, the same of Cornea, a pale 

 iety o* Gesnera Doujlasii, and the Sericographis 

 Ghiesbreghtiana mentioned above. 



rent loss which 

 e Society had sustained by the death of the Earl of 

 ackland, who had for many years been a most 

 tive member of the Council ; and he announced that 

 e next meeting would be made special, for the purpose 

 electing a successor to his Lordship. Mr. Hutton, on 

 e part of the Council, expressed their deep sense of 

 e valuable services which had been rendered to the 

 - deceased nobleman, who might be truly 



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t.:td to stand heat well A Certif 

 ng fruit was a collection of Pears from J. $ 



Morceau, Beuriv d'A . ■-.'' rg, NVii 1'ilivcr, N ip - 

 Beurre, Beurre Diel, fine well coloured s 



in the same excellent 

 very desirable that his mode of keeping them should be 

 made known ; at present, however, it remains a secret. 

 A Banksian Medal was awarded to them - 1 

 gr. to Lord Bridport, exhibited a plant of Bl 

 Pine-apple bearing three suckers, on each 

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sally recognised by gardeners ; but instead of plant- 

 them out in the bed of the Pine pit, as Mr. Hamilton 





! Bame time. From 



he plant exhi 

 8th of February la; 

 he other 4 lbs. 10 o: 



[vantages of the Hamiltonian over the ordinary mod« 

 fruiting Pine-apples will be perceived, and the laboui 

 quired in growing them on the former system is 

 iliiug compared with that required in the old plan, 

 was mentioned that the plant exhibited had not beer 

 lifted for two years. A Knightian medal was awarded, 

 r. Wright, gr". to Mr*. Rushnut, of Wanstead, showed 

 Cayenne Pine-apple weighing 4 lbs. This was s'ated 

 have been grown from a gill in 20 months. Mr. 

 ■ 

 ' * for bunches of West's St. Peter's Grape, beau- 

 red and ripened.— Mr. Bev' 



unknown Grapes called black and white Bar 



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Rankin, of Dulwich, showed three Citr . 



Certifi- 

 of Ash-leaved Kidney Potatoes, 



cimens, from a greenhouse, 

 cate was awarded. A box of A.sh-leaved iUdney .F< 

 sprung and ready for planting, came from Mr. I 

 of Camberwell. These were sent to pro 



strength of their shoots, the fallacy 

 by a correspondent, viz., that sm- 

 produce so good a crop as larger 



mentioned he 

 periments which had been 

 the garden of the Hor- 



u of exp •: 

 Such is, how* 



equired to compete i 

 productions of the foreign cultivate] 

 ' our markets. This must be evid 



ties of fruit and early veget 



