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Beurree Ranee Pears, and small Saint Germain Pears. Bergamotte de 

 la Pentecote Pears, from Andrew Arcedeckne, Esq. Golden Pippins, New- 

 town Pippins from America, and Reinette grise, from France. Seedling 

 Apples, from Mr. James Young. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Sea-kale and Asparagus forced in 

 the open ground. Flat Peach of China. Flowers of Poppy Anemones, 

 Azalea I'ndica, var. phcenicea, Prunus Pseudo-Cerasus, and several varieties 

 of Crocus. 



March 18. — Read. On an Apparatus for heating Garden Stoves by the 

 combined use of steam and hot water, by John Sharp, Esq. F.R.S. &c. 



Exhibited. A nmshroom grown in a pot, from Mr. Samuel Knevett. 

 Three sort of Camellias, from John Alinutt, Esq. F.H.S. Plants of a 

 double yellow Rose, from Mr. Robert Donald, F.H.S., of Woking, Surrey. 

 Flowers of Camellia reticulata. Reticulated or Captain Rawes's Camellia, 

 from Thomas Carey Palmer, Esq. F.H.S. Nonpareils, Golden Pippins, 

 and Newtown Pippins, from America. Bonchretien Pears from Rouen, 

 Paddington Pears, and St. Germain Pears. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Asparagus forced in beds in the 

 open ground, as well as Asparagus grown in the open ground, covered with 

 wooden pipes in the German manner. {Encyc. of Gard. § 5887.) Sea-kale, 

 common, Italian, and blotched-leaved Succory, forced in pots. Potatoes 

 forced in boxes. Flowers of single Poppy, double and Irish Anemones. 

 Branches in flower of the double Peach, and of Jmygdalus macrocarpa, the 

 latter a valuable acquisition to our hardy early-flowering trees. 



Art. IV. Provincial Horticultural Societies. 



The Botanical and Horticidtiwal Society of Durham, Northumberland, 

 and Newcastle upon Tyne held their f^rst General Meeting for the pre- 

 sent year on the 15th of Februarj", at the Queen's Head Inn, Newcastle; 

 and it must have afforded great pleasure and satisfaction to the friends 

 of the institution to witness the excellence in quality, and great extent 

 in quantity, of fruits, flowers, and vegetables then exhibited. The num- 

 ber of apples, the great variety of sorts, and the beautiful state of pre- 

 servation in which they appeared, surpassed any of the former exhibitions, 

 especially considering the season and the weather. A great many seed- 

 ling apples were exhibited, principally from the garden of Michael Hall, 

 Esq., of Gateshead, one of which gained the prize, and is a very fine 

 apple, and a most excellent keeper. Mr. Hall named it the Beacon 

 Lough Pippin, from the name of his estate where it was raised: it is a 

 seedling from the Reinette Grise of the French. A very fine dish of 

 mushrooms was sent by David Cram, Esq., of this town ; and a splendid 

 collection of single and double hyacinths, polyanthus narcissuses, and early 

 tulips, from the garden of Dr. Headlam, added much to the beauty of the 

 tables. Several bouquets of fine exotics also attracted the attention of the 

 visitors, who will bear testimony to the great improvement made by the 

 Committee in the arrangement of the exhibitions this season, by giving a 

 premium at each show for the best bouquet of flowers; by which means 

 the same spirit of emulation, which has done so much good in the improve- 

 ment of the vegetables, fruits, and some particular flowers exhibited at 

 the exhibitions hitherto, will stimulate the cultivators to attend more 

 closely to the rarer and more beautiful flowers and plants of each season, 

 and will, to the evident great advantage and delight of the visitors of the 

 exhibitions resident in Newcastle and its neighbourhood, afford them op- 

 portunities of seeing the most beautiful and novel horticultural subjects in 



