Horticultural Society. 21.1 



yellow turnip. Unfortunately there is rather a scarcity of seed of this 

 variety for the ensuing season. 



Sorts of Wheat. The variety known at the Cape of Good Hope, as the solid 

 stalked wheat, and which is said to resist the mildew there better than any 

 other, differs from the common winter wheat of Europe, chiefly in the 

 roundness of the grain, which resembles pearl barley : it has been cultivated 

 in England, but found to degenerate into the common wheat in three years. 

 The perennial wheat of the West Indies is the triticum erectum, an ever- 

 green perennial both there and here, which has weak straw, small grains, 

 and produces flour of indifferent quality. In Britain its seeds seldom grow 

 much larger than couch grass, triticum repens. 



Gooseberry Shoivs. " The Lancaster gooseberry society has fixed to weigh 

 in future with avoirdupois ounces, which they have divided into 20 pts. 

 which they will call pennyweights. By this alteration, a berry that weighs 

 20 dwt. troy will weigh 23 dwts. avoirdupois, and 10 dwts. troy will 

 be equal to 1 1 avoir, and rise in proportion to the 20. The insertion 

 of this in your magazine, may be of interest to many of your readers, 

 as it has been supposed that the goldsmith's ounce was the lightest; 

 but this is not the case ; and as there seems to be a doubt which weight 

 is generally used for weighing berries in different towns, this hint may be 

 the means of ascertaining the facts through the medium of the Gardener's 

 Magazine." (Com. by M. Saul, Sulyard Street, Lancaster, 1th Feb. 1826.) 



Boss's Camellia Gloriosa. A fine specimen of this beautiful variety is in 

 bloom at the Eden Nursery, Stoke Newington, now in possession of Mr. 

 Masters. It was raised from the seed of the Warratah, to which it bears 

 some affinity, but is sufficiently separated from it by a double and sometimes 

 treble row of outer petals ; the centre well filled, of a lighter and brighter 

 colour than its parent. The leaves are remarkable for their size and dark 

 green colour. In the same nursery are two single Camellas of great 

 merit; one of them of a rose colour, and very large, with small stamina; the 

 other very large, with bold golden stamina, half of which are spatulate. 



Pruning Vines and denuding them of their Leaves in September. A 

 correspondent who signs Philalethes, says, If you will have the goodness 

 to refer to Hales' Vegetable Statics, vol. i. page 57-3. you will find 

 the following passage, which shows that the practice of pruning the vine 

 in September, described in your last number by Mr. Salisbury, was perfectly 

 well known to gardeners in the neighbourhood of London, a hundred 

 years ago. 



" And the reasonableness of this practice is further confirmed by the 

 experience of Mr. Palmer, a curious gentleman of Chelsea, who has found 

 that by pruning his vines, and pulling all the leaves off" them in September, 

 as soon as the fruit was off, they have borne greater plenty of grapes than 

 other vines, particularly in the year 1736, when by reason of the extreme 

 wetness and coldness of the preceding summer, the unripe shoots produced 

 generally very little fruit. 



Oriental Garden, Brighton. It is said three palms have been bought 

 from Messrs. Loddiges for this establishment, at 500 guineas each ; if so, we 

 rejoice to think that this magnificent garden scheme will be earned into exe 

 cution. See Gard. Mag. page 89. 



Art. III. Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Horticultural Society. December 20th. The articles exhibited were dif- 

 ferent varieties of red and yellow beet, Spanish, and red skinned chardoons, a 

 Montserrat pine apple, a few apples and pears, and a few heaths and other 

 green-house plants, from Messrs. Chandler and Buckingham. The pine- 

 apple, which was grown in the neighbourhood of Manchester, and which 



