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Keswick Nursery ; Mr. Kerr. — This nursery, which contains 12 acres, 

 was established about the beginning of this century. The present occupier 

 has only entered upon it lately and, from a state of neglect, is bringing it 

 into order and keeping. The articles grown have hitherto been chiefly 

 forest trees ; but Mr. Kerr contemplates a general collection. There are, a 

 green-house stocked with camellias and pelargoniums ; a large specimen of 

 Pyrus salicifolia, and of the gold-blotched beech ; and a new seedling 

 Rhododendron maximum, of more free growth than the parent ; a small 

 seed-shop ; and a few books, lent out gratis to such gardeners as feel inclined 

 to borrow them. 



Art. V. London Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Oct. 2. 1832. — Read. A paper on the striped Hoisanee Persian 

 melon; by the author of the Domestic Gardener's Manual. 



Exhibited. Flowers. Seedling georginas, from Mr. Ingram, of the royal 

 gardens, Frogmore. A collection of georginas, from Mr. R. Chandler. A 

 collection of georginas, three species of Salpiglossis, and Chinese roses, 

 from Mrs. Marryatt, F. H. S. Georginas, from Mr. Wm. Hogg, Paddington. 

 Collection of georginas, and also of Livick's incomparable georgina, from 

 Mr. James Young, F. H. S. A collection of georginas, from Mr. John 

 Lee. — Fruit. Trumpet gourd, from the Marquess of Salisbury. Black 

 prince, White Frontignac, and Black Hamburgh grapes, from Mr. George 

 Leslie, gardener to J. Fleming, Esq., Hunt's Green. Adelaide apple, and 

 Gansel's bergamot pear, from Thomas Hunt, Esq. Fifty-four sorts of 

 apple, Prince's golden nectarine, and Rosanna peach, from a standard, 

 from Mr. Joseph Kirke. Money's new St. Peter's, Escholata superb, 

 and West's black St. Peter's grapes, from Mr. D. Money. Lablab vulgaris 

 (from the open air), from Mr. H. Little, Gloucester Place, King's Road. 



From the Garden of the Society. Flowers. jSalvia cardinalis, splendens, 

 chamaedryoides, angustifolia, and Grahamz; Fuchsia microphylla, Z/upinus 

 ornatus, Amaryllis Belladonna, .Erica Bowiea»20i, Eriophyllum caespitosum, 

 JSrigerbn sp". from Douglas; Georginas. — Fruit. Peaches : Abricotee, Cathe- 

 rine, Chancellor, Braddick's North American ; Sanguinole, Melting ; 

 President, late Admirable, preferable to any of the preceding. Apples : 

 Rambour, large white Calville, Manks codlin ; Wormsley pippin, a good 

 bearer; Grey Leadington ; Reinette de Lark, worthy of recommendation ; 

 Autumn pearmain, Starlet queening, Drap d'or, Hoary morning, Nelson. 

 Pears: Flemish beauty, specimen smaller than usual; Verlaine d'Ete, Beurre 

 de Capiaumont, Belle et bonne ; Fondantz d'automne, a very melting new 

 sort, which at this particular season will prove an acquisition for supplying a 

 kind of blank in the ripening of good sorts ; Forme de Beurre Duquesne, 

 Bergamotte Dertrycker, Belotte ; Poire figue, synonyme Pistolette, and 

 is the Knevett's pear of the London market, also received as Prince de 

 Ligne, and Inconnue Angouleme ; Calebasse, Reine des poires ; Alpha, a 

 seedling raised by Mr. Braddick, good bearer; Duquesne d'Ete, Cadet de 

 Vaux, Jalousie, Styrian. Grapes: White Nice, Wortley Hall, seedling; 

 White Portugal, an excellent bearer. Onions : Tripoli, Spanish. 



Oct. 16. — Read. A paper on the production of early peas, by Mr. 

 T. Blake, F. H. S. A description of the varieties of cherry cultivated in 

 the garden of the Society, by Mr. Robert Thompson. A paper on the 

 cultivation of the queen pine-apple, by Mr. George Warren, gardener to 

 Henry J. Grant, Esq. F.H. S. 



Exhibited. Twenty-two sorts of apple, royal muscadine grapes from a 

 south wall, and fruit of the same kind from a vineyard on a south border, 



