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cumstance, not only because the paper appeared to us well conducted, and 

 calculated to be of real use to cultivators of the soil, but because it indi- 

 cates a deeply depressed state of rural society. 



Irish Furze, Broom, and Yew. — Ireland possesses varieties of the furze, the 

 broom, and the yew, very different from any yet found in Great Britain. The 

 Ulex europceus of Ireland is more upright in its growth than the common 

 plant, more compact, but much softer, and scarcely prickly to the touch. 

 The*Irish broom is very remarkable, and seems to be really a different species 

 from Cytisus s'coparius, {Spartium scoparium, Auct.) This is characterised by 

 the pods being glabrous on the sides, but furnished with a margin of short 

 woolly hair. The Irish one has the pod so totally covered with long 

 woolly hairs as to appear at a distance like balls of white cotton. It in 

 all probability will be found to be Cytisus grandiflorus, a species hitherto 

 found only in Portugal. Lastly, the Irish yew is merely a shrub ; the 

 leaves are not distichous, as in the common Taxus baccata, but are quater- 

 nate. Of all the three shrubs the British varieties are also found in Ire- 

 land, the abovementioned being rare. {Prof. Jameson's Phil, Jour. p. 207. 

 December, 1826.) 



We should be glad if our correspondent. Mr. Robertson of Kilkenny, or 

 Mr. Fraser of Loughrea, would inform us from what nurseries in Ireland or 

 Britain these plants may be procured. The whin and the yew may be had 

 about London, but they are rare. — Cond. 



Art. III. Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Dec. 5. The following Papers were read: — On Dahlias. By Mr. Wil- 

 liam Smith, under-gardener in the Arboretum department of the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society at Chiswick. Upon the Culture of Celery. By 

 Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S. and President. 



The following Matters were exhibited : — Round Tripoli Onions, grown 

 by Mr. Barker of Edmonton, brought by Mr. Daniel Judd, F.H.S. (four 

 weighed seven and a half pounds.) Potatoes from the Marquis of Salis- 

 bury, F.H.S. (four weighed eleven pounds eight ounces.) 



Dec. 19. The following Silver Medal ivas presented: — To John Mot- 

 teux, Esq. F.H.S. for his great attention to the Cultivation of Fruits in his 

 Garden in Norfolk, as proved by his frequent exhibitions of its produce to 

 the Society. 



The following Papers were read: — On Orache, its varieties and culti- 

 vation. By Mr. William Townsend, under-gardener in the kitchen-garden 

 department of the garden of the Horticultural Society. On the destruction 

 of the Caterpillar on Gooseberry Trees. In a letter to the Secretary. By 

 Mr. W. Chartres, C.M.H.S. A plan for the growth of the Early Straw- 

 berries. In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. James Carrington. On 

 the esculent Egg Plants. By Mr. Andrew Matthews, A.L.S. Description 

 of a plan for growing Mushrooms. In a letter to the Secretary. By Mr. 

 William Young. An account of a method of heating Stoves by means of 

 Hot Water, employed in the garden of Anthony Bacon, Esq. By Mr. 

 William Whale, gardener to Mr. Bacon. A notice of six varieties of Pears, 

 received from Jersey in the year 1826. By Mr. John Lindley, F.L.S. &c. 

 Assistant Secretary for the Garden. 



The following Matters ivere exhibited: — Colmar and St. Germain Pears. 

 Uvedales St. Germain Pear, from Mr. Moisson of Jersey, weighing two 

 pounds twelve ounces. (This is the pear alluded to by our correspondent, 

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