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Art. III. Horticultural Society and Garden. 



OCT. 2. — Exhibited. Double Dahlias. Late Ranunculuses, from Mr. 

 Henry Groom, F.H.S., of Walworth. White French Cucumber and Pastis- 

 son Gourds. Red Celery and Apples unnamed, from Josias Baker, Esq. 

 Primley Nuts and Paignton Marigold Apples. An orange resembling the 

 Orange de Grasse of Risso, from the Hon. Mrs. Dymoke. Crataegus odo- 

 ratissima, a collection of Apples, and true old Autumn Bergamotte and 

 Carter's Beurree Pears, from Mr. Thomas Gibbs, F.H.S. Black Hamburgh 

 Grapes. Early Spanish and Scarlet-fleshed Melons, grown in the open 

 air, by Mr. John Wells, of Airsford Hill, Sussex. Peaches from a standard 

 tree, from Mr. C. Hale Jessop, nurseryman, at Cheltenham. A collection of 

 Apples and Pears from Mr. Hugh Ronalds, F.H.S. Five sorts of Apples and 

 ten sorts of Pears, from Mr. James Smith, F.H.S., of Hopetoun House. A 

 branch of a Swan's Egg Pear. Seventeen sorts of Pears and thirty-nine 

 sorts of Apples, from Mr. John George Fuller, F.H.S. Fifteen sorts of 

 Apples. Seedling Apples, from Mr. George Forder, of Winchester. Fif- 

 teen sorts of Apples, from Mr. Joseph Kirke, F.H.S. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Fifteen sorts of Apples, Catherine 

 and Sanguinole Peaches, Blacksmith's White Cluster Grape, Flowers of 

 Double Dahlias, and Faccinium padifolium caucaseum. 



Oct. 16. — Exhibited. Flowers of the Wheat-ear Carnation, Royal 

 Muscadine Grapes, specimens of the Verlaine Pear, and seventeen sorts of 

 Apples, from Mr. Joseph Kirke, F.H.S. Flowers of Helianthus tomen- 

 tosus, Stevia sp. ? from Mexico, and *Sblanum angulatum ; also, specimens of 

 Apples and Pears, from Robert Barclay, Esq. F.H.S. Late Ranunculuses, 

 from Mr. Henry Groom, F.H.S. Water Melons, from W. Pitt, Esq., of 

 Kingston, near Dorchester, Dorsetshire. White Nice Grapes. Verdelho 

 and Malvoisie Grapes. Doyenne Dore'e Pear, and Kirke's Scarlet admirable 

 Apple. Two Seedling Apples, from Mr. Thomas Moffatt, F.H.S. Apples 

 from John Moxon, Esq. F.H.S., called the Newtown Pippin, an indifferent 

 soft apple, and not the Newtown. Thirty-three sorts of apples from Mr. 

 Thomas Gibbs, F.H.S. Ashmead's Kernel Apple. Burge's George IV. 

 Apple. 



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

 sorts of Tomatos, nine sorts of Celery, Pitmaston White Cluster Grape, 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme and Gilogil Pear, and nine sorts of Apples. 



Nov. 6. — Read. Description of a new mode of constructing Hot- 

 houses, by Mr. W. Deykes, of Knightsbridge. On the cultivation of the 

 Horseradish, as practised in Denmark and Germany, in a letter to the 

 Secretary, by Mr. Jens Peter Petersen. 



Exhibited. A candle made of the wax of itfyrica cerifera, and flax from 

 the fibre of a species of Aloe, from John Campbell Lees, Esq. C.M.H.S. 

 Potiron Jaune Gourd, weighing 156 lbs., from John Creswell, Esq. F.H.S. 

 Solid Red Celery. Three sorts of Potatoes, three sorts of Pears, and 

 thirty-six sorts of Apples, from Mr. John Haythorn, C.M.H.S. A new 

 Seedling Pear from Nunholm Garden, and eight sorts of Apples from Wil- 

 liam Grierson, Esq. Secretary to the Dumfries and Galloway Horticultural 

 Society. Uvedale's St. Germain Pear, weighing 2 lbs., from Nathaniel Gos- 

 ling, Esq. F.H.S. Eighty-six sorts of Apples from Mr. Thomas Gibbs, 

 F.H.S. Two varieties of Seedling Apples, from Miss Nottidge, of Wands- 

 worth. Specimens of the Alfreston Apple. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Flowers of twenty-two sorts of 

 Chrysanthemums, and several sorts of Double Dahlias ; two sorts of Car- 

 doons, viz. the Red and Spanish; Chinese Quince; Snow Pear of China; 

 four sorts of Pears, and four sorts of Apples. 



