242 Horticultural Society. 



Juvenis, p. 245.,) Green Providence Pine Apple, and a silver and pink 

 striped Surinam Pine Apple from Gregory Gregory, Esq. F.H.S. 



Also from the Garden of the Society : — Flowers of Tussilago fragrans, 

 of two coloured, incurved, and other sorts of Chrysanthemums. Common 

 Succory, Italian Succory, Chicoree a feuilles panachees, and forced Potatoes. 



Jan. 2. 1827. The following Papers were read: — Remarks upon grafting 

 the Pear upon Quince Stocks. In a letter to the Secretary. By Mr. Tho- 

 mas Torbron, F.H.S. Account and description of the different varieties of 

 Raspberries which have been cultivated and examined in the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society of London. By Mr. William Sanderson, foreman in 

 the fruit department of the garden. An arrangement and description of 

 Gooseberries cultivated in the garden of the Horticultural Society at Chis- 

 wick in the year 1826. By Mr. Robert Thompson, under-gardener in the 

 fruit department. 



Jan. 1 6. No meeting, from respect to the memory of the Duke of York. 



Feb. 6. Several books were presented, and some papers read ; two by 

 gardeners in the employ of the Society, on Raspberries and Gooseberries 

 fruited in the garden at Chiswick ; and one by a foreign corresponding 

 member, on the state of Gardening at Riga and its neighbourhood. 



Among the Articles exhibited, were woollen netting for fruit trees, sent 

 from North Wales by Sir Robert Vaughan, and which, including carriage, 

 can be delivered in London at 5\d. per yard ; no place of sale is yet 

 fixed on ; but in the meantime orders may be sent to Mr. Lindley, at 

 the Society's house, in Regent Street. (Gardeners in the country may 

 write to their nurserymen to apply there.) A seedling Camellia by Mr. All- 

 nutt ; plants of the common and white-flowered variety of the Primula 

 sinensis ; a flower of Crinum amabile ; blossoms of Chimonanthus fragrans, 

 one of the few hardy shrubs which, planted against a south wall, are in 

 bloom during December, January, and February ; purple and variegated 

 Borecole ; some Apples and Pears, and forced Asparagus and Rhubarb, were 

 also on the table. Grafts of Knight's early Black Cherry, Jaune Hative 

 Plum, Rezi de Montigny Pear, and Lamb Abbey Pearmain ; and seeds of 

 Green Turkey Cucumber, White Turkey Cucumber, Union Cabbage Let- 

 tuce, Vanack Cabbage, and White Solid Celery were given away. Part V. 

 of Vol. VI. of the Transactions of the Society, it was announced, will be 

 ready for delivery on the 23d of February. 



Chimonanthus fragrans is a shrub worthy of notice ; one or more plants 

 of it ought to be planted against a wall, in a warm situation, in every gar- 

 den where the peach will ripen in the open air ; and, in other gardens, it 

 ought to be planted in the ground in the conservatory or green-house, or 

 against a wall, and protected by a glass and mats. Its blossoms are highly 

 fragrant, and the odour is of that refreshing kind which never palls on the 

 sense. In many families a small plate of the flowers, garnished with sprigs 

 of myrtle, laurel leaves, or, when the season admits, blossoms of Camellia, 

 is produced every morning at the breakfast table. A few yards of wall 

 covered with this plant will afford incomparably more enjoyment than as 

 many yards of peach-tree or grape ; and enjoyment, also, of a more elegant 

 character. 



Feb. 9.0th. — Among the papers read, was one by Mr. Macmurtrie, of Shugborough Gardens, on 

 iron hot-houses. Mr. M.-admits the elegance of these structures as compared with wood, and al. 

 lows that they are well adapted for lofty green-houses and conservatories ; but so decidedly is he 

 against their use for forcing-houses, and especially for early forcing, that if a new house were to 

 be erected at Shugborough, and his employer proposed to construct it of iron, rather than have it 

 of that material, he would prefer constructing it of wood, even if at his own expense. Iron houses 

 are much dearer than those of wood, and Mr. M. denies that they last longer. These being the 

 opinions of a gardener of great experience, whose excellent crops and new mode of growing pines, 

 &c. (vol. i. p. 407.), prove him to be not only eminent in his profession, but a man of ingenuity and 

 alive to improvement, the reader will do well to contrast them with our ideas as to iron hot-houses 

 (p. 107.), written under the strong impression made by the range erected at Syon, and with a pre- 



