464- Domestic Notices. — Scotland. 



In the Vinery at the Botanic Garden of Hull, belonging to |Mr. Donn, 

 erected last spring upon a new, light, and economical plan, a vine of the 

 genuine Tokay was planted on the 19th of April last, without either ball 

 or earth attached to its roots, and it has now produced the prodigious num- 

 ber of 200 bunches of grapes, above 150 of which at present remain upon 

 the tree. (Hull Advertiser, April, 1827.) — If this be correct, we should be 

 glad to know from Mr. Donn what method he pursued to keep the bunches 

 on the trees so long, and also what state they were in in regard to flavour 

 and appearance. 



Fine new Potatoes were offered for sale in Lancaster market on May 17th 

 at \0d. per lb., and there was a larger supply on the following day at Sd. 

 per !b. (Lane. Gaz. May 19.) — These potatoes, Mr. Saul informs us, 

 were raised at Poulton, in the manner described by him (p. 47.). 



Neiv Potatoes from the open Ground, June 4. Eddison, Esq. of 



Mount's Bay, Penzance, (Vol. I. p. 342.) has sent us a sample of good size 

 and quality, accompanied by a notice, that to have new potatoes in his 

 neighbourhood by the latter end of April, the sets should be cut with one 

 eye each, and planted in a warm situation about the middle of December, 

 at the usual distance, a moderate quantity of good stable dung under the 

 sets, and a covering of three inches of mould. 



SCOTLAND. 



Caledonian Horticultural Society, April 19. — The annual show of Auri- 

 culas and Polyanthuses fell short of any former one, which was chiefly to 

 be ascribed to the lateness of the season, many of the finest flowers not 

 having yet come into blow, but partly owing to an evident neglect of such 

 competing exhibitions on the part of those who possess fine flowers. 



Of Stage Auriculas there were but two collections, the best of which 

 was found to have been sent from Drum by Mr. William Milne, gardener 

 to Gilbert Innes, Esq. of Stow, and the Society's medal was awarded to 

 Mr. Milne. 



Of Seedling Polyanthuses several collections were shown, and the pre- 

 ference was given to those marked " Sterne;" but, on opening the sealed 

 note, this collection was found to belong to James Macdonald, Esq. New- 

 ington, who, having been the successful competitor in the same article last 

 year, could not receive a medal this year. 



A Collection of strong and beautiful Hyacinths was placed on the 

 table, from bulbs which had been flowered for five or six years past at Drum, 

 in the open borders, protected merely by mats in wet weather. Likewise a 

 collection, from Holland, consisting of" twenty-four varieties of the Crown 

 Imperial (Fritillaria Imperialis), which had also been produced at Drum 

 garden. [How were they cultivated and treated? As in p. 412 ?] 



The ornamental exotic Plants in flower exhibited, consisted of the 

 Wiodod^ndro7i arboreum, with several large bunches of splendid blossoms ; 

 Hovea Celsi ; Azalea 1'ndica, two varieties, purple and white ; Grevilh'a 

 //icifolia; and Boronia serrulata. The meeting having considered these 

 productions as remarkably fine agreed, although there was no proper com- 

 petition, that a medal be awarded to the cultivator, Mr. Cunningham, at 

 Comely Bank. 



Six kinds of Apples, in a state of high preservation, with some Scottish 

 Walnuts, ripened last autumn, were sent by Mr. Cruickshank, Strathtyrum, 

 to whom the thanks of the meeting were voted, with a request that he 

 would communicate to the Society his peculiar mode of keeping fruit. 

 (Edin. Ad. April 24.) 



The coal-gas bill (p. 352.), we are happy to learn, has been defeated. 



