230 Horticultural Society and Garden. 



throwing out powdered lime or sulphur, on the principle of the machine 

 described by our correspondent C. P. (p. 30.) 



Exhibited. A cucumber saved for seed, 25 in. long, and 10 in. in circum- 

 ference. A model of Gregory's patent self-supported ladder. Read's fumi- 

 fating bellows. A branch of the Hawthorndean Apple, with fruit on it. 

 Venty sorts of summer apples. White Nice Grapes. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. A plant in flower of Linningia, 

 new species from Rio Janeiro. Flowers of Russian ten-week and autumn 

 Stocks, of jLilium supdrbum, .4sclepias tuberosa, Coreopsis tinctoria, and of 

 Double Dahlias. Fruit of Sugar-loaf Pippin, Morden Bloom Apple, Sweet 

 Italian Melon, Smooth Valparaiso Melon, Brown Nutmeg Peach, Otaheite 

 Pine-apple, King Pine-apple, Orange Apricot, Brussels Apricot, Shipley's 

 large Apricot and Breda Apricot. 



Aicg. 21. — Read. On the destruction of the A'phis lanigera on apple 

 trees, by Mr. Joseph Ashbany, gardener to Sir George Scudamore Stanhope, 

 Bart. [The nurserymen find that a little oil effectually destroys this insect, 

 and nothing can be more easily applied.] 



Exhibited. Specimens, wrought and unwrought, of the stem of a Tree 

 Fern, sections of which are used by the Chinese as pencil holders. Flowers 

 of Indian Pinks and Seedling Double Dahlias, from the garden of Lord 

 Abergavenny, at Eridge Castle, near Tunbridge Wells. Flowers of Double 

 Dahlias. Flowers of a variety of the Scarlet running Bean. Six sorts 

 of Pears, and thirty-three sorts of Apples, of which the best was the 

 Duchess of Oldenburg. Dunmore Moor Park Apricots. Roman Apricots. 

 Moor Park Apricots, and a branch loaded with fruit of the Quarrenden 

 Apple. Bourdine Peaches, Black Hamburgh and Leweston Syrian Grapes, 

 and Queen and Black Jamaica Pine-apples. A Melon, unnamed, weighing 

 15 lbs. Black Hamburgh Grapes. Seven sorts of Apples. Chelston Pippins. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Flowers of Double Dahlias, .Lilium 

 superbum, Jsclepias tuberosa, Coreopsis tinctoria, French and African Mari- 

 golds. Autumn-flowering ten-week Stocks. Fruits of Mimm's and Gis- 

 borne's Plums. Turkey and Brussels Apricots, Seedling Nectarine, and 

 twenty sorts of Apples. 



Sept. 4. — Read. Reports upon the plants which flowered in the garden 

 of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, between March, 1 825, and March, 

 1826, Part I. Hardy Plants, by Mr. John Lindley, F.L.S. &c. 



Exhibited. Fruit oPCaxica papaya, a Fungus (Lycoperdon Bovista) 

 from the garden of Mr. King of Chelsea, a Thermometer for a Pine Pit 

 from Mr. Samuel Bregazzi of Derby {/g.61. p. 2 17.); Indian Pinks, Tanker- 

 ville Pippins, and Apples unnamed ; Wheatear Carnations, a Seedling Plum, 

 and ten sorts of Apples; various Flowers, Washington Plums (p. 217.), and 

 a Plum unnamed ; Mulberries and Black Hamburgh Grapes; Bryanstone 

 Gage Plum. 



Sept. 18. — Exhibited. A plant in flower of a seedling Primula sinensis, 

 with white flowers, different from the one raised by Joseph Delafield, Esq., 

 of Kensington. Two varieties of iSblanum, from the Brazils ; a plant in 

 flower of Geissomena longiflora ; fifteen collections of Dahlias from as many 

 private individuals, and collections of Dahlias from Messrs. Youngs of 

 Epsom, Mr. Wood, Nurseryman, Oatlands, near Measfield, Sussex, and 

 Mr. John Lee, F.H.S., of Hammersmith, forming one of the most splendid 

 assemblages of this flower ever brought together. Five sorts of Oranges, 

 Lemons, and Citrons; White Spanish Onions, from Mr. Barnard Saun- 

 ders, nurseryman, Jersey ; two kinds of Rock Cantaloup Melons, Bruns- 

 wick Figs, Teton de Venus Peaches, White Nice and Black St. Peter's 

 Grapes, Brown Beurre* and Gansell's Bergamotte Pears; Small Orange 

 Nectarines, six sorts of Nectarines and six sorts of Peaches, Millet's Mig- 

 nonne Peach, and six sorts of Grapes ; Raisin des Cannes Grapes, and 



