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acres of land ; house and garden about 551. per annum, or perhaps 60/., 

 if in complete order fit to receive a tenant j and five or six acres of land, 

 if good and near the house, 30/. per annum : the tenant discharging the 

 taxes. Price of such a small freehold, about 2000/. Price of daily 

 labour in husbandry, 1*. 6d. ; for carpenters and bricklayers, 2s. 8d. Soil, 

 a rich loam, with a substratum of clay in the valleys, of granite on the 

 western hills, of lime on the south, and calcareous on the east. Relative 

 to poor's and other rates, the houses in Chudleigh are rated at half their 

 real value, land at about two thirds. Beef and mutton, 6d. per pound ; 

 pork less. Chudleigh has an excellent supply of fish, which is very cheap. 

 Coals are about 17s. per quarter, including carriage twelve miles from 

 Teignmouth. Wood, 3s. per cwt,, delivered. Fat bullocks, about 9s. per 

 score ; fat sheep, 6d. per pound. Lime, 5s. 6d. per hogshead. Bricks, 6s. 

 per hundred. Elm, Is. 9d. to 2s. per foot; white deal. Is. lOd. ; red deal, 

 2s. 6d. The neighbourhood devoid of fogs ; the prevailing winds west and 

 south-west. The high table land of Dartmoor breaks the showers of the 

 Atlantic before they reach our district. Within an area of seven miles, 

 Chudleigh, Bovey Tracey, Newton, and Ashburton might be included in 

 this report. — J. G. C, Bovey Tracey, Chudleigh, Devon, April 20. 1831. 



Art. IX. Horticidtural Society and Garden. 



May 3. 1831. — Read. A paper on the Means of prolonging the con- 

 tinuance in Culture of valuable Varieties of Fruit; by T. A. Knight, Esq. 



Exhibited. Calceolaria corymbosa, from Mr. James Young; a speci- 

 men, nearly 3 ft. high, which had been treated with manured water, j&rica 

 mundula and mirabilis, Eutaxia wzyrtifolia, Daviesfa idicina, Chorizema 

 Henchmannf, from Messrs. Chandler, Easter pippins of 1829 and 1830, 

 from Captain Downes. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Flowers : Prunus serrulata. Double- 

 flowering French Cherry, Double-flowering Common Cherry, Wistan'a 

 Consequana, J?dsa Banksi^E lutea, Cercis S'iliquastrum, Double-flowering 

 Furze ; Paeonia Moidan, varieties Banks?"c&, rosea, and jpapaveracea ; Pse6nz« 

 tenuifolia, 3 varieties; Single Psponies, iupinus nootkatensis, Show 

 Tulips, Double Tulips, Parrot Tulips, Pursh/a tridentata, Pentstemon 

 Scoulen', Tellima grandiflora. Azaleas, ieucojum sestivum, ieucojum 

 pulchellum, Caltha palustris flore pleno, Ribes multiflorum, Ribes aureum 

 serotinum, Schizanthus pinnatus, Schizanthus porrigens. Calceolaria 

 angustifolia, Jnagyris Indica, iyibiscus i?6sa-sinensis. — Fruits : Keen's 

 Seedling Strawberry, Flat Peach of China. 



May 17. — Read. Letters from Mr. David Douglas, dated Columbia 

 River, October 11. 1830; and from Drummond Hay, Esq., dated Tan- 

 gier, 6th of April, 1831 : also an Abstract of the Temperature, as indicated 

 by the different Thermometers in the Society's Garden. 



Exhibited. Hybrid Cactus, from the Comte de Vandes. Boronia ser- 

 rulata. Azalea Indica (yellow,) and Keen's Seedling Strawberry, from Mrs. 

 Marryat. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Lupines, 4 kinds ; Pentstemons, 2 

 kinds; Roses, 5 sorts ; 2 P?ebma Moutan ; Single Paeonies, 8 kinds ; Wistan'a 

 Consequawff, 3 varieties of Pyrus, Edwards«« grandiflora, Gesnerfa rutila, 

 ikfalva purpurata, Sphacele campanulata ; Sinningf«, 4 kinds ; J'lnus cordi- 

 folia, Aerides guttatum, Thermopsis/abacea, Collinsza grandifldra, Cotone- 

 aster rotundifolia ; Cratae^gus, 4 kinds; Pine-apple, Hesketh's No. 1. 



June 7. — Exhibited. Caifre Corn, and Pear unnamed, from the orchard 

 of J. N. Colyn, Esq. Little Constantia, Cape of Good Hope, presented by 

 John Reeves, Esq . Black Hamburgh Grapes, from C. Welstead, Esq., the 

 produce of an old vine at Valentine's, the parent of the Hampton Court 



