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Exhibited. Candles made in China, from the wax of /?hus succedimeum, 

 from Thomas Beale, Esq., of Macao. A collection of Pinks, from Mr. Wil- 

 liam Hogg of Paddington. Flowers of Combretum comosum, from the 

 Comte de Vandes, F.H.S. Flowers of Stocks, from John Wejland, Esq. 

 F.H.S. A Flower of the Dwarf Cockscomb, from John Taylor, Esq. F.H.S. 

 Flowers of three sorts of Peonies, from Mr. James Young. Flowers of 

 Combretum purpureum, from Richard Mills, Esq. F.H.S. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Sixteen sorts of Strawberries. 

 Flowers of Pentstemon ovatum, P. diffiisum, iupinus lepidus, L. bicolor, 

 Clarkza pulch^lla, CEnothera Lindleyi, Collinsza grandiflora, Escholtzia ca- 

 lifornica, Centaurea Cyanus, Gilia capitata, il^Tfmulus moschatus, Brodise'a 

 congesta, Lonicera flexuosa, Pasonia albiflora Hiimei, Paeonia albiflora fra- 

 grans. Single Anemones, Bulbous Irises, Sweetwilliams, various Show 

 Roses, Rose Boursault, ^osa moschata nivea. Watt's Climbing China Rose, 

 Frazer's Double China Rose, Italian Evergreen Rose, and Belle Aurore 

 Rose. 



Juli/ 1 . — Read. On the culture of the Potato, by Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq. F.R.S. &c. President. Remarks upon the cultivation of the 

 Queen Pine-apple, in a letter to John Fassett Burnett, Esq. F.H.S., by Mr. 

 James Brient, gardener to Mr. Burnett. 



Exhibited. A plant in flower of Maurandz« Barclaiana, and flowers of 

 O'^xalis Deppii, Clerod^ndron floribunduiii, Salpiglossis atropurpurea, 

 Tradescantia ciliata, jDelphinium speciosum, Philadelphus grandiflorus, 

 Rhenia sp.N. America, iysimachia verticillata, L. verticiliata var., hibiscus 

 /iliiflorus, and Jrgemone grandiflora, from Robert Barclay, Esq. F.H.S. A 

 flower of Magnolia macrophylla, from Edward Gray, Esq. F.H.S. Queen 

 Pine-apple, from John Fassett Burnett, Esq. F.H^. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. — Noblesse Peaches, Elton Cherries, 

 Violet, Hative, and Elruge Nectarines, White Providence Pine-apple, Bar- 

 net, Bromley Hill, and Spring-Grove Raspberries, twenty-eight sorts of 

 Strawberries, large Prussian Lettuces. Flowers of Clarkja pulchella, Mk- 

 lope ??ialacoides, CEnothera Lindleyi, CB. quadrivulnera, CE. pallida, Collo- 

 mia grandiflora, Escholtzia californica, Pentstemon diff'usum, iWimulus 

 moschatus, Galardza aristata, Gilia capitata, Z/upinus Idpidus, /beris umbel- 

 lata var., Eccremocarpus scaber, Lonicera flexuosa. Single Anemones, 

 Sweetwilliams, and Roses. 



July 15. — Read. An account of a new kind of Bee-hive, by Mrs. Griffith 

 of Charlieshope, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



Exhibited. Twenty-four varieties of Carnations and Picotees, from 

 Mr. William Hogg of Paddington. Four Oaks seedling Grape, from Mr. 

 Thomas Clues, gardener to E. C. Hartopp, Esq. Bread from the root of 

 the Cassava plant, from Daniel Edward Stephens, Esq. F.H.S. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. — White Providence, Trooper's Hel- 

 met, Enville and Mealy-leaved Sugar Loaf Pine-apples, Montagu Canta- 

 loup Melon, four sorts of Currants, five sorts of Raspberries, forty-six sorts 

 of Gooseberries, and large White Silesian Lettuce. Also, flowers of il/alope 

 walacoides, Clarkia pulchella, Escholtzia californica, Nolana paradoxa, 

 Collomia grandiflora, Gilia capitata, iupinus aridus, lepidus, leucophyllus, 

 and pluraosus. Coreopsis tinctoria, Eutaxia multiflora, Brodis'a grandiflora 

 nothera pallida, CE. Lindleyi, CB. quadrivulnera, Petiinia nyctaginiflora, ikfi- 

 mulus guttatus and moschatus, Helianthus lenticularis, Abroma mellifera. 

 Single Anemones, twenty-four sorts of Double Dahlias, Rose Bouganville, 

 Quisqualis /'ndica. Calceolaria paniculata, Glycine sinensis [our Wistaria 

 (not Wisteria, but after Mr. Wistar, as we are hiformed by Alexander Gor- 

 don, who has just returned from America) Consequana] and CEnothera, new 

 species from north-west America. 



