Horticultural Society and Garden, 



conducted, but invariably without effect ; neither will the Cucurbita GiruU 

 lus mule with any other species of the same genus. "With respect to other 

 Cucurbitacese I cannot as yet decide. I have endeavoured to fecundate 

 the Cucumis Jnguria (which in p. 506. you erroneously name Snake Cucum- 

 ber) with the pollen of the melon, but without any result. Thus far from 

 my own experience. But from that of M. Sageret, than whom no one is 

 better qualified to decide, we learn that not only will not the melon., 

 cucumber, and gourd mule, but that there are six distinct species of Cucur- 

 bita which are equally incapable of receiving fecundating influence, the one 

 from the other. The Cucumis ilielo, Duddim, Chate, and flexudsus will 

 all mule one with the other. I possess from him hybrids obtained by the 

 mixture of each. 



Your reviewer has committed a most extraordinary and unaccountable 

 error in Vol. IV. p. 383., where, in reviewing the Annates de la Societe 

 d' Horticulture, he states, on Sageret's authority,that the melon " is liable to 

 be stained by the qualities of the cucumber," and that " by artificial or acci- 

 dental adhesion different properties may be conveyed along the branches," 

 for neither of which is there the least foundation ; since to the former his 

 opinion, as there stated, is directly opposed ; and, to support the latter, 

 there is not a tittle of evidence. 



If any facts should have come to the knowledge of your correspondents 

 disproving the above statements (and I own I have heard of strange hybrid- 

 isations), I shall be most happy to be made acquainted therewith, and to 

 have it put in my power to witness it by the present of a few seeds. I 

 have grafted the melon on the cucumber, and both of them on the gourd, but 

 without any extraordinary result. I am, Sir, &c. — J. C. K. Levant Lodge,. 

 Aug. 31. 



Fuchsias and Hydrangeas, — I happen to have a little bed of fuchsias, and 

 also of hydrangeas. Can I keep them in the ground through the winter,, 

 and how? — Sexagenar'nis* Waltham Cross, Sept. 19. 



Mulch them well with dry litter, fronds of fern, firs, or leaves, and 

 then thatch the mulch with wheat straw or reeds, so as completely to throw 

 off the rain. — Coiuh 



Art. V. Horticidtural Society and Garden, 



Sept. 21. — Read. On the State of Horticulture in Ross-shire j by Sir" 

 G. S. Mackenzie, Bart. F.H.S. 



Exhibited. A specimen of the Georgirea A'ntorc, from Mr. Jas. Sutton 

 of Andover. Flowers of Georginas, from Mr. Chapman, gardener to the 

 Marquess of Stafford, St. James's. Seedling Apples, from the Rev. Peter 

 Rashleigh, F.H.S. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Four sorts of Lupines, seven sorts 

 of Oenothera, Tagetes lucida, Jgeratum mexieanum, Lavatera trimestris,. 

 Clarke pulehella, China Asters, Nigella hispanica, Cladanthus arabicus, 

 ilfalope ?Kalacoides, Schizanthus pinnatus, ilfalva miniata, Tberis umbel- 

 latus, three sorts of Pentstemons, Catananche caerulea, a collection of 

 Georginas and Anemone-flowered Georginas, Calceolaria diffusa, Quisqualis 

 Indica, Jgeratum coelestinum, Dracocephalum speciosum, fourteen sorts of 

 Pears, seventeen sorts of apples, two sorts of plums, four sorts of Peaches,, 

 two species of Faccfnium, Couve tronchuda, Chou a grosse cotes verts* 

 i?rassica from Pekin, 



Oct. 5. — Read. The Meteorological Journal kept in the garden of the 

 Society, to July, 1830. 



Exhibited. Beddington Muscadine Grapes, from Edmund Tattersall,, 

 Esq. F.H.S. This was a variety with small but very handsome hunches,: 



