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and a powerful Frontignac flavour : it appeared to be the Chasselas Musque, 

 A Seedling Pear and a Seedling Apple, from Mr. J. Oliver, gardener at 

 Combe Abbey, near Coventry. Wood of the Gum Sandarach tree, from 

 Mr. Drummond Hay of Tangier. Black Hamburgh Grapes, grown with- 

 out fire-heat, from John Allnutt, Esq. F.H.S. This was a single bunch of 

 much beauty, perfectly well ripened, Two Apples, named from Mr. Ro- 

 bert Clews, F.H.S. iStachys pal ustris, from Mr. Green of 23. Alpha Road, 

 The specimens had been forced in a pot, which appeared a better mode than 

 growing in the open ground. Seedling Camellia, from Mr. George Press, 

 gardener to Edward Gra}', Esq. F.H.S. Camellias, from John Allnut, 

 Esq. F.H.S. Seedling Georginas, raised in Lincoln's Inn, from Mr. John 

 Maher, F.H.S. A double Sunflower, from Mr. John Maher, F.H.S. 

 Three sorts of Seedling Georginas, from Mr. Adam Paul, F.H.S. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Pentstemon atropurpureum, Fer- 

 bena chamasdrifolia and Aublet/ar, Catananche cacrulea, Zberis umbellatus, 

 Tagetes lucida, Chelone barbata, ikfalva miniata, Schizanthus pinnatus, 

 Arctotis anthemdides, five varieties of ffihothera, Cladanthus arabicus, 

 Eschscholtzitf califdrnica, yigeratum mexicanum, ilfalope ?«alacdides, Ni- 

 gella hispanica, three sorts of Phlox, Clarkk pulchella, Stevia purpurea, 

 Zinnia multiflora, Poppy Anemones, Galai'dia aristata, illalva purpurata, 

 Coreopsis lanceolata, Georginas, Anemone-flowered Georginas, twenty- 

 seven sorts of Pears, thirteen sorts of Apples, seven sorts of Peaches, 

 Buck's Seedling Pine-apple. 



Oct. 19. — -Read. Note upon the Cultivation of the Convolvulus Bat- 

 idtas ; by Mr. James Duncan, under gardener in the garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



Exhibited. A Sweet Melon of Ispahan, and a new Pine from Jamaica, 

 from T. A. Knight, Esq. Pres. &c. Both these proved excellent ; the 

 former was smaller than the specimen received from Mr. Knight in the 

 middle of the summer, but nearly as good. Marie Louise, Duchesse 

 d'Angouleme, Beurree Diel, and Gloux Morceaux Pears, from Lord Farn- 

 borough. Seedling Apple from the old Golden Pippin, and Barossa Apple, 

 from Jos. Warner, Esq. Ten sorts of Apples, Ganseli's Bergamot Pear, and 

 Quinces, from Robert Francis, Esq., Ivy House, Canterbury. A Seedling 

 Apple, from Mr. Smith of Ilford. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Tagetes lucida, three varieties of 

 Oenothera, Cladanthus arabicus, Malope ?walacoides, Catananche caerulea, 

 Asters, twenty-four sorts of Pears, twelve sorts of Apples, Beets, Sweet 

 Potatoes, in illustration of the Note read this day from the Garden. 



The late Librarian of this Society, Mr. Thomas Goode, having relin- 

 quished his situation, in consequence of the recommendation of the Com- 

 mittee to " make a reduction in the establishment," has, as we are in- 

 formed by a circular, " determined to apply himself to business," that is, 

 to trade. We heartily commend this determination on the part of Mr. 

 Goode. Of all the modes of procuring the means of subsistence, short of 

 that of living on one's own land, the most independent is that of trade. 

 What is called a profession, a clerkship, or an official situation under govern- 

 ment or in some public office, used to be considered " more genteel j" but 

 this antiquated idea is fast passing away. Clerks and persons in offices were 

 held to be more genteel, because in former times, when men were divided 

 into casts or ranks, such, for example, as nobles, clergy, peasantry, &c, 

 the freedom from hard work, and the comparative skill and talent required 

 in order to be able to read and write, created, in the occupation and style 

 of the clerk, some allusion to the clergyman or the noble ; hence attorneys 

 and others were styled gentlemen by law : but in the present day, when 

 almost all tradesmen are highly cultivated and enlightened, and equally well 

 dressed and polite with noblemen, the idea of one honest mode of pro- 

 curing a living being more genteel than another is most unphilosophical and 



