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will produce a similar effect to cutting a tree over close by the surface or. 

 collar, and give rise to a number of suckers or leaf shoots. 



Gigantic Borecole. — I have now growing in my garden some plants of 

 German greens, which were put in very rich, deep, rather sandy ground, in 

 June last. When they had grown about 5 ft. high, I cut their tops off, and 

 stirred the earth about their roots, drawing it up a little to the stems ; the 

 autumn being moist, they soon became covered with sprouts, and have now 

 (Jan 16.) the appearance of a little forest of pine trees. I expect they will 

 be as useful to me through the winter, as Dr. Hamilton's La Vendue Cab- 

 bage would be to one of our cows. — Charles Sidei/. Perth. 



Art. III. Horticidtiiral Society and Garden. 



Feb. 5. — Read. A Plan of transplanting large Forest Trees, by Sir 

 Charles Miles Lambert Monck, Bart. F.H.S. Upon the proper Manage- 

 ment of Plants during their voyage from China to England, by Mr. John 

 Damper Parks, F.H.S. Upon improving clayey Soil by burning, by John 

 Wedgwood, Esq. F.H.S. A Review of the fifty kinds of Grapes described 

 by Mr. Speechly, in his Treatise on the Vine, with such revisals as subse- 

 quent practice shows the necessity of, by Mr. Joseph Thompson, Gardener 

 to his Grace the Duke of Portland, at Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. 



Exhibited. A specimen of a very large white sweet Potato, from Mo- 

 rocco, sent by Mr. Sadi Ombark Benbey. Flowers of Primula sinensis, and of 

 a Camellia, from plants growing in the open ground, from Sir Thos. Dyke 

 Acland, F.H.S. Flowers of CameUias from plants growing in the open air, 

 from Mr. Robert Donald, F.H.S. Sturmer Pippins, from Mr. Alexander 

 Barclay, F.H.S. A fine collection of American Apples, from Jesse Buel, 

 Esq. C.M.H.S., of Albany, New York. 



Also, from the Garden of the Societt/. A plant in flower of Amaryllis 

 auhca ; stalks of seedling Rhubarb forced in pots ; Asparagus forced in beds 

 in the open ground ; variegated Kail ; Ox-noble, and large pale red Pota- 

 toes; Italian and blotch-leaved Succory forced in pots. 



February 1 9. — Read. Some account of the Charles Apple, by Mr. John 

 Lindley, F.R.S., &c.. Assistant Secretary. An account of the species of 

 Calochortus, a genus of American plants, by Mr. David Douglas, A.L.S. 

 Journal of Meteorological Observations made in the garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society at Chiswick, during the year 1827, by Mr. William Beattie 

 Booth, A.L.S. 



Exhibited. King Dates from Morocco, from Mr. Sadi Ombark Benbey. 

 Fruit of Gaulthena shdllon, in spirits, brought fi-om the N. W. coast of 

 America, by Mr. David Douglas, A.L S. Cuttings of a plant from New 

 Zealand, used by the natives for dyeing, from Henry Seymour Matthews, 

 Esq. F.H.S. Benwell's Pearmain, from John Disney, Esq. F.H.S. Apples 

 unnamed, from Walter Burrell, Esq. F.H.S. 



March 4. — Read. An account of a Cherry Orchard, at Hylands, near 

 Chelmsford, the seat of Peter Caesar Labouchere, Esq. F.H.S., by Mr. John 

 Smith, gardener there. An account of the Manner of training the Vine 

 upon open walls, at Thornery, near Fontainebleau, by Mr. John Robertson, 

 F.H.S. On the Cultivation of the Strawberry, and a Description of a Drill 

 Hoe, by Sir George Stewart Mackenzie, Bart. F.H.S. 



Exhibited. Oranges, from the Rev. John Luscombe, grown in the 

 open air. Camellias flowered in the open air, from Mr. Charles Harrison, 

 F.H.S., gardener to the Earl of Egremont, F.H.S. Black Pear of Worces- 

 ter, and Medaille Saint Germain Pear, from Mr. John Rutherford, gardener 

 of the Earl of Digb}'. Ne plus Meuris Pear, from Mr. Samuel Knevett. 



