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to the Society's house from the Garden, for the inspection of the Fellows 

 of the Society, or persons authorized by them, who shall be at liberty to 

 order any of the articles on the list for the next, or next but one suc- 

 ceeding day, and which articles shall be sent unto Regent Street by eleven 

 o'clock on the day fixed, and shall be forthwith delivered at the house 

 in London of the person ordering the same. Payment to be made at the 

 time of delivery." 



It was observed by the Secretary that it was not intended by this 

 measure to injure the market-gardeners ; but merely to enable members 

 of the Society, and their friends, to taste fruits and other garden articles 

 more correctly named than they generally are in the public market. 



June 2oth. -The principal papers read were a report respecting the gar- 

 den of the Society ; one on Glycine Sinensis, by Mr. Sabine ; and one on the 

 clubbing of cabbages, by Mr. Thomas Blake, gardener to Mrs. Butts, at Ken- 

 sington. Among the books presented were a volume of the American Farmer, 

 and one of the Memoirs of the Agricultural Society of New York. The flowers 

 on the table consisted of a fine collection of roses, fromMr.Lee; two blossoms 

 of Magnolia macrophylla, from the garden of E. Gray, Esq., of Harringay, 

 near Highgate ; the plant there, and that at the Duke of Devonshire's, at 

 Chiswick, being the only plants near London that have yet flowered. The 

 leaves and flowers are much larger than those of any of the other Magno- 

 lias; the flowers white, with a slight degree of sickly odour. A collection 

 of ranunculuses, some paeonies, Ixora rubra and coccinea, Rosa Grevillea, 

 the Champney rose, a variety like R. Noisette, and Lonicera flexuosa, 

 from the garden of the Society. Rosa Grevillea is a variety of R. multi- 

 flora, and in a single fasciculus of flowers are roses of every shade of purple, 

 from white to the darkest tint; it is one of the handsomest of climbing 

 roses. Lonicera flexuosa, though often kept in green-houses, seems to be 

 as hardy as the common honeysuckle, which it greatly exceeds in fragrance, 

 and in abundance of blossoms. These two roses, and this honeysuckle, 

 and also Lonicera Japonica, deserve a place in every garden. A fine col- 

 lection of pinks was presented by Mr. Hogg of Paddington, and flowers 

 of Cactus speciosissimus from Mrs. Byng; Lilium longiflorum, from the 

 garden of the Society ; and some azaleas by different individuals. The only 

 culinary vegetable on the table was mountain spinage, seven varieties, from 

 the garden of the Society. This is the sort of spinage in general use round 

 Paris, and deserves, in our opinion, to be more generally cultivated in this 

 country as a Summer spinage ; its leaves, which it produces in abundance 

 on stems sometimes six feet high, being as succulent in Summer as those of 

 common spinage are in Winter. There were 37 sorts of strawberries 

 from the garden of the Society tasted, and also a new seedling, raised by 

 Mr. Knevett of Turnham Green, from the common pine impregnated with 

 Keens' imperial. We saw it in Mr. K.'s garden some days ago; it is a 

 handsome fruit, in general appearance like the pine ; hardy, a great bearer, 

 and considered high flavoured. Mr. K. intends to bring it out about 

 Michaelmas, 1827, and is in the mean time raising as many plants as he can 

 for that purpose. 



Horticultural Society's Garden, May 22. In the experimental division 

 of the ornamental department, we observed a handsome row of green- 

 house plants, from 2 to 4 feet high, plunged in the soil, with the pots cover- 

 ed, and occupying a small border along a walk. They are chiefly Australa- 

 sian plants, and the intention is, probably, to prove their comparative de- 

 grees of hardiness ; but, at any rate^ the effect is exceedingly good, and 

 might be adopted and improved upon, in private gardens. A collection of 

 single specimens arranged in this way, following each other in natural re- 

 lationship, bordering a revolving walk, as in Messrs. Loddiges' arboretum, 

 and named with glazed china tickets, as in Mr. Boursault's garden in Paris, 



