66 Transactions of the Horticultural Society. 



The succeeding papers to No. 54, have, as before observed, 

 been noticed in their proper places, in the last edition of the 

 Encyclopaedia of Gardening. 



54. On the Cultivation of the Yellow Rose, and of the tender Chinese 

 Roses, by budding on the Mush Cluster Rose. In a letter to the 

 Secretary. By John Williams, Esq. Corresponding Member of 

 the Society. Read July 13. 1823. 



The double Yellow Rose, which does not flower with Mr. 

 Williams as a standard bush, flowered freely from buds in- 

 serted on strong shoots of a musk cluster rose, trained on the 

 east front of a house. The buds were inserted ten feet from 

 the ground ; the same plan succeeded with the sweet scented 

 and dark Chinese Roses; the blossoms of the latter were 

 larger than usual, which Mr. Knight thinks is owing to " the 

 distance the sap has to pass from the root before it reaches 

 the flower-buds." At Cobham Hall, in Kent, the sweet 

 scented Chinese rose is also found to do best on the musk 

 species. In a note by the secretary, we are informed that in 

 the garden of T. C. Palmer, Esq. of Bromley, in Kent, the 

 double yellow rose will not live on its own roots, but budded on 

 the common Chinese rose in April 1822, it grew so well as to 

 produce upwards of thirty flower buds the following season. 

 The bud put in in April had a little of the wood attached to 

 it in the French or scollop manner of spring budding. 



55. On the Cultivation of the Arachis Hypogcea. In a letter to the 

 Secretary. By Mr. John Newman, Gardener to the Hon. Robert 

 Fulke Greville, F.H.S. at Castle Hall, near Milford, South 

 Wales. Read Aug. 17- 1823. 



The Arachis Hypogsea is a leguminous plant, a native of 

 Africa, but now naturalized in most of the European settle- 

 ments of America. It is cultivated for the seeds, or nuts, as 

 they are commonly called, which are roasted and used as 

 chocolate. In China they extract an oil from these seeds, 

 which is used both for lamps and for the table. The plant is 

 annual in duration, and has herbaceous procumbent stems, 

 with pinnate leaves, and gold-coloured axillary flowers on 

 long peduncles. As soon as the flower begins to decay, 

 the germ of the seed-pod thrusts itself under ground, and is 

 there grown and ripened. Hence the reason why the seeds 

 are called ground, or earth nuts. In our stoves Mr. Newman 

 directs the seeds to be sown singly in February, and the plants, 

 when six inches high, to be turned into the tan-pit, just after 



