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practice, and of the regulations under which it is now carried on ? A 

 knowledge of it would be very valuable all over the kingdom. If Mr. 

 Coke would condescend to write to you, he could tell you all about it, 

 and so can any of his tenants. — X. Y. Sept. 5. 1831. 



Art. V. London Horticultural Society and Garden. 



July 17. 1832. — Exhibited. Specimens of corn [common wheat], from 

 Mr. Lance of Lewisham, author of The Golden Farmer. 



From the Garden of the Society. A new species of Gaura, from Cali- 

 fornia, and a new species of J'ster, also from California. /Spiraea ariaefolia, 

 and various other flowers. Fruits of three sorts of cherry, red masculine 

 apricot, Elton scarlet strawberry, a collection of gooseberries, and specimens 

 of three fine varieties of Silesian lettuce. 



August 7. — Read. A paper on the drying of plants for a Hortus Siccus, 

 by Dr. Knight, of the Marischal College, Aberdeen. A paper on the 

 advantages of irrigating garden grounds by means of tanks and ponds, by 

 T. A. Knight, Esq. 



Exhibited. Noblesse peaches, from William Lindsay. Cucumber and 

 cockscomb, from Mr. Elphinstone, gardener to T. Broadwood, Esq. 

 Garden seat and flower stand, from Mr. Gibson, 2. Little Camera Street, 

 Camera Square, Chelsea. Twenty-four varieties of carnations and picOtees, 

 from Mr. T. Hogg, florist, Paddington, of which the following are the names : 

 — Bijou de Clermont, Mademoiselle d'Orleans, Marshal Turenne, Roi des 

 violettes, Princesse Marie, Voltaire, Firth's Yirginius, Leighton's Bellero- 

 phon, Hodge's Bright Phoebus, Clarke's Magnificent, Hogg's Lord Hill, 

 Wakefield's Paul Pry, Hogg's William the Fourth, Hogg's Penelope, Prince 

 George of Cambridge, Annesley's Lord Hill, Paganini, Douglas's Lady 

 Selkirk, Amour, Prinz von Oranien, Rosalie de Rohan, Louis Philippe, 

 Prince de Conde, and Golden eagle. Red juneating apple, and white juneat- 

 ing apple, from Mr. Joseph Kirke. Specimen of a monstrous grape, from 

 Robert Ferguson, Esq. Striped Hoosainee melons, from T. A. Knight, 

 Esq. Cucumber from Mr. P. Allan. Georginas and marigolds, from Mr. 

 Richard Chandler. 



Also, from the Garden of the Society. — Flowers. Xupinus ornatus, Fuchsia 

 virgata; Salvia cardinalis, Grahaim, and ehamaedryoides ; Madia elegans ; 

 Pentstemon Richardson?, pubescens, atropurpureus, and campanulatus ; 

 Calceolaria bicolor ; Ferbena pulchella, AubletoV?, and chamsedrifolia ; Ca- 

 lampelis sciibra, Trachymene caerulea, Tournefortza /zeliotropioides ; Ameri- 

 can runner, from G. W. Ward, Esq., 1830; georginas, hollyhocks. — Fruit. 

 Api'icots : the best blossoms of apricots were starved in the spring ; Large 

 early, royal, orange; black, a great bearer, singular, different from that 

 introduced by Sir Joseph Banks, this received from M. Audibert, Taras- 

 con. Plums : Morocco, Wilmot's new early Orleans ; Cherry plum, a 

 variety obtained through the French, which bears most abundantly. [A 

 dish of plums, of a kind named " the cherry plum," very interesting in 

 appearance, was, about five years ago, sent for exhibition to a show of the 

 Bury St. Edmunds Horticultural Society. The plums excited much atten- 

 tion at the show, were thought very peculiar, and were brought by a gentle- 

 man who attended the show, out of his own garden, if I rightly remember, 

 at Diss, — J. D.~] Late duke cherry, a few to show its lateness: it would 

 require another week to ripen it perfectly, and it may be kept for the dessert 

 till the end of August; Carnation cherry. Gooseberries : Pitmaston green 

 gage (this sort has the property of hanging long on the bush without turning 

 sour, as is the case with the generality of gooseberries, it shrivels like a 

 raisin, and is good for matting up, to keep late in the season) ; Red Cham- 



