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struck us, that the Society would confer a benefit on its members, by requir- 

 ing successful candidates to explain the method of keeping fruit. The 

 visitors were more numerous than on any former occasion ; and the success 

 of the Society will be obvious, when we state that the increase to the sub- 

 scription list was also greater than at any previous exhibition. {Montrose 

 Review, May 9.) 



A Polyanthus Stalk was shown to us lately, containing no fewer than 137 

 distinct flowers, all fully and beautifully formed, though some of them were 

 more expanded than others. The number of the flowers has taken nothing 

 from their brilliancy, and we question whether Flora ever nursed into lux- 

 riance a greater curiosity of the kind, in this or any other part of Scotland. 

 {^Dumfries Courier, May.) 



Art. III. Horticultural Society and Garden. 



June 3, — Read. Upon the management of Borders for Fruit Trees, 

 by Mr. James Housman. An account of an easy method of destroying 

 Caterpillars, by Mr. Richard Williams, gardener to Thomas Andrew Knight, 

 Esq. F.R.S. &c. President. [We are very happy to learn that Mr. Knight 

 has thought it worth while to keep a gardener who can not only read, but 

 write. Mr. Knight, by showing the utility of general knowledge to gar- 

 deners, and advocating the cause of garden libraries as the means for 

 acquiring this knowledge, might do more for the advancement of horticul- 

 ture, than by all the practical papers that he has ever written, or ever will 

 write. Among practical gardeners these papers go for nothing, and deservedly 

 so; for what is the result of all that Mr. Knight has stated in regard to the 

 culture of the pine-apple, the strawberry, or the mango ? Are we one 

 step advanced in consequence of these papers? It is in physiological 

 experiments that Mr. Knight excels, and it gives us pleasure to state that 

 by these he has established his reputation far beyond the reach of our 

 praise or blame.] 



Exhibited. Flowers of a seedling i?hododendron, from Mr. Joseph Kirke, 

 F.H.S. Flowers of three sorts of Peonies, Double Anemones, Ranuncu- 

 luses, and Hybrid Tree Lupines, from Mr. James Young, F.H.S. Seedling 

 Lupines, from Mr. Charles Marshall, gardener to Thomas Langley, Esq., 

 Kingston, Surrey. Flowers of Combretum comosum, from the Comte de 

 Vandes. Plants in flower of Enca ventricosa, ^rica ventricosa carnea, 

 JErica ventricosa cornea sup^rba, and Euchilus obcordata ; also, flowers of 

 Psibnia albiflora Whitleji, and iathyrus grandiflorus, from Messrs. Chand- 

 ler and Buckingham. Oranges from St. Michael's, from William Harding 

 Read, Esq. C.M.H.S. Sir Gore Ouseley's Persian Melon, from Sir Thomas 

 F'rankland, Bart. F.H.S. Black Antigua Pine-apple from Charles Gomond 

 Cooke, Esq. F.H.S. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Asparagus grown within wooden 

 tubes {Encyc. of Gar d,, § 3887.), Grove-End Scarlet Strawberries, Early 

 May Cherries, S3'rian Cucumbers, Scarlet-fleshed Cantaloup Melon, Flat 

 Peach of China. Flowers of Single and Double Anemones, Double Paeo- 

 nies. Ranunculuses, Bulbous Irises, Geum coccineum, Z/upinus polyphjllus, 

 Collinsia grandiflora, Pentstemon ovatum, iathyrus californicus, Gloxinia 

 caulescens, iUfmulus luteus rivularis, Drummond's Thornless Rose, Belle 

 Aurore Rose, Rose Boursault, Watt's Climbing China Rose, i26sa rubdlla, 

 csmeWicBfTora, Rosa Indica sinensis, Rosa I'Heritierawa, and varieties of 

 Double Scotch Roses. 



Jime 17. — Read. An account of the Naturalisation of some Plants at 

 Bristol, by William Pyle Taunton, Esq. F.H.S. 



