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Messire Jean, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Passe-Colmar. From T. Hunt, 

 Esq. : Beurre diel pear, Hunt's royal nonpareil apple, Golden pippin apple. 

 From T. A. Knight, Esq. : Seedling pear, No. 2. (from a wall and from a 

 standard). From Harry Dobree, Esq : Seedling swan's egg pear; scarcely so 

 good as the swan's egg. Chile Peppers: Yellow tree capsicum, Red Chile, 

 Small red Chile, Tree capsicum, Piment longue petit tardif, Long Chile, from 

 the East Indies, Long Chile, Long red Chile, Black Chile, Piment violet, 

 Indian small red, Cayenne pepper. Capsicums : Long small yellow, Long 

 yellow, Woolly-leaved ; Piment long petit a feuille etroite, do. cornu, do. 

 cafe ; Capsicum annuum, Large long yellow, Bell pepper, Piment gros long 

 about, do. de pimentos, do. ordinaire, Capsicum paprika, Short red, Piment 

 cerise, do. de pimentos, do. carre doux, do. gros long about, do. cerise petit ; 

 Tall cherry red, Small cherry yellow, Upright yellow, Unnamed, Boston 

 pepper, Oval yellow, Small yellow, Cerise gros, American bonnet pepper, 

 Red tomato. 



Dec. 6. — Read. A Report from the Garden of the Society upon the 

 Propagation of Cabbages by Slips; by John Lindley, Esq. F.R.S. &c, As- 

 sistant Secretary. The second edition of the Catalogue of Fruits cul- 

 tivated in the Society's Garden having issued from the press, it was 

 announced as being ready for delivery to the Fellows of the Society, at 

 the price of 5s. per copy. 



Exhibited. Very fine two-coloured, incurved, and brown purple chrys- 

 anthemums, from William Wells, Esq. A remarkably well-blown plant of 

 the double yellow Indian chrysanthemum, from L. Weltje, Esq. A potiron 

 jaune [large yellow mammoth gourd], weighing 153 lbs., from the garden of 

 the Rev. H. Wise, Offchurch, near Leamington ; presented by Mr. Car- 

 penter. This was one of a crop weighing altogether 555 lbs. from the same 

 vine. Forbidden fruit, from the West Indies, presented by H. M. Dyer, 

 Esq. A pear, Uvedale's St. Germain [?], weighing 3 lbs. 2 oz., from the 

 garden of Mrs. Chambers of Feversham, communicated by J. R. Neame, 

 Esq. Newtown pippins, from the garden of William Haldimand, Esq. : 

 these, on examination, proved to be the Fall pippin. Seedling pears and 

 seedling potatoes, from John Harrison, Esq., Snelstone Hall, near Ash 

 bourne. 



From the Society's Garden. Flowers. Chrysanthemums : Park's small 

 yellow, Semidouble quilled white, Tasseled white, Pale buff, Pale pink, 

 Changeable white, Tasseled yellow, Two-coloured red, Golden lotus- 

 flowered. — Fruit. Pears : Bon Chretien Turc, Passe-Colmar, Crassane, 

 Gloux morceau, Napoleon, Gendeseim, Chaumontel, Josephine, Beurre 

 diel, Bergamotte cadet, Saint Germain, Easter beurre. Seedling Chau- 

 montel pear and Swan's egg do., from H. Dobree, Esq. Duchesse d'Angou- 

 leme pear, Bezi de la Motte do., and Poire de Naples, from M. Langelier. 



Dec. 20. — Read. A Paper on the beneficial Effects of the accumulation 

 of Sap in Annual Plants; by T. A. Knight, Esq. F.R.S. &c, President. 



Exhibited. Chrysanthemums, Camellias, and a flower of Banksza se'mula, 

 from William Wells, Esq. Among the Camellias were some fine flowers of 

 the Greville red. Nine sorts of Camellias, from Messrs. Chandler. Genuine 

 Newtown pippins, and a specimen of a Chinese pruning-knife from John 

 Reeves, Esq. Two baskets of very fine Camellias, from John Allnutt, Esq. 

 Double Indian yellow Chrysanthemums, and do. white, from Mr. James 

 Young. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. Flowers. Double white Indian 

 Chrysanthemum; Chimonanthus fragrans var. grandiflorus. — Fruit. Pears : 

 Beurre d'Aremberg, Bon Chretien Turc, Dowler's seedling, Nelis d'Hiver, 

 Glout morceau, Beurre diel, Easter beurre, Passe-Colmar. 



Jan. 3. — Read. An account of the Horsforth seedling Vine ; by Mr. 

 Thomas Appleby. 



Exhibited. Horsforth seedling Grapes, from Mr. Thomas Appleby. 

 A seedling Pine-apple, from Mr. D. Money. Some flowers, and the fol- 



