12(5 Provincial Hart. Societies : — Cambridgeshire. 



Art. IX. Horticultural Society and Garden. 



November 2. — Read. A Report upon the Effect of planting certain 

 tender Exotic Plants in the open Air at Bristol ; by William P. Taunton, 

 Esq. F.H.S. A Report from the Garden of the Society upon the Effect 

 of the Stock upon Fruit Trees ; by Mr. Robert Thompson. An Account 

 of a new Kind of protecting Frame, to be used in forcing Asparagus, Sea- 

 kale, &c., in the open ground ; by Mr. John Dick, C.M.H.S. 



Exhibited. Four sorts of apples, from Mr. John George Fuller, F.H.S. 

 Downton pippins, from William Cobb, Esq. of Margate. Flowers of 

 Matthiok tricuspidata, from Henry Shute, Esq. A species of Vernonk 

 from Brazil, from Mr. J. A. Henderson, F.H.S. Flowers of Camellias, 

 from John Allnutt, Esq. F.H.S. 



November 16. — Exhibited. A pod of the Entdda PiirscB'tha, from Lord 

 Auckland, F.H.S. Pear, No. 4., from T. A. Knight, Esq. Fruit of the 

 Longan, from C. Webb, Esq. A pear unnamed, from Mr. Stephen 

 Hooker, F.H.S. From the garden of the Society, fourteen sorts of Chrj'- 

 santhemums. Poppy Anemones, twenty-five sorts of Apples, thirteen sorts 

 of Pears, thirty-five sorts of Capsicum, fourteen sorts of Chilies, and five 

 sorts of Endive. [The particular sorts not specified in the book from which, 

 by the permission of the Society, this was copied.] 



December 7. — The following notices were issued from the chaii' : — " That 

 the Council have resolved that a fete and exhibition of fruits be held at 

 the garden in June next ; " and " That the Council have resolved that a 

 course of three lectures on botany, applied to horticulture, be delivered 

 next spring to the Fellows in their meeting-room in Regent Street." 



Read. The Meteorological Register kept in the Society's Garden, for 

 August, September, October, and November. A Report upon the Varie- 

 ties of Pine-apple cultivated in the Society's Garden; by Mr. Donald 

 Munro, F.L.S., head-gardener. (Part 1.) 



Exhibited. A wilding pear, from J. W. Griffiths, Esq., F.H.S. Flowers 

 of the two-coloured incurved Chrysanthemum, from William Wells, Esq. 

 F.H.S. From the Society's garden, nine sorts of Pears, twenty-seven 

 sorts of Apples, eight kinds of Beet-root ; flowers of Chimonanthus fragrans, 

 and flowers of Chi-ysanthemum. 



December 21. — Read. A Continuation of the Paper on the Varieties 

 of the Pine-apple; by Mr. Donald Munro, F.L.S. 



Exhibited. Allnutt's single-striped or carnation Camellia, from John All- 

 nutt, Esq. F.H.S. From the garden of the Society, twentj'-seven sorts of 

 Apples, ten sorts of Pears ; specimens of Succory ; flowers of Chimonan- 

 thus fragrans, Chimonanthus fragrans var. grandiflorus, and of six sorts of 

 Chrysanthemum. 



Art. X. Provincial Horticultural Societies. 



Hitherto the counties in this article have been arranged geographically, 

 following the order of the Circuit Courts, as in the Statistics of the Ency- 

 clopeedias of Gardening and Agriculture ; with the present Volume we com- 

 mence an alphabetical arrangement, thinking it will admit of more con- 

 venient reference, during the publication of the successive Numbers which 

 form the Volume. When the Volume is completed, the counties can be 

 easily referred to from the General Index. 



Name of Secretary not before given. — Hull Floral and Horticultural Society, 

 D. Brown, Esq. 



CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 



Cambridgeshire Horticvltw-al Society. — Oct. l.S. The following award of the 

 judges was announced by Mr. Searle, the ehairman : — - _ 



