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we shall find more consumption, and, consequently, a remunerating price 

 for them; otherwise, 1 fear, the system of culture, which has advanced so 

 rapidly m the production of so many fine vegetables at this early period of 

 the season, and by which the public have been generally enabled to indulo-e 

 m these articles at a moderate charge, will fall into decay, and remain onty 

 in the hands of the rich private cultivator. The state of the horticultural 

 interest, at the present time, is truly lamentable; and much individual loss 

 must be felt before any improvement can be expected. Fruit, generally 

 has been of good quality ; very little foreign has been imported, our own 

 supplies being good, prices consequently moderate. Onions are in great 

 supply, the crop having been excellent, and the breadth in outline laro-e- 

 the prices very low, attended with great difficulty in eflfectino- sales'. 

 Potatoes, which were heavy in the market at the period of the lasf report* 

 in consequence of an abundant supply at the time, the growers appearino^ 

 to be anxious to sell to realise capital, 'are now becoming scarce, and thin 

 in the market ; it is pretty generally supposed that the stock in the hands 

 of the growers is getting short, and the dealers, not having many on hand, 

 it is expected they will be in demand, and realise much better prices — 

 Cov. Garden, Jan. 23. 1833. 



Art. VIII. Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Dec. 4. 1832. — Read. Notes upon Chinese Chrysanthemums, by Mr. 

 Donald Munro. A paper on the Zea Mays, or Indian corn, by the author 

 of the Domestic Gardener's Manual. 



Exhibited. Collection of apples, from Mr, Joseph Kirke (25 sorts) ; 

 and Napoleon pear. Seedling chrysanthemums, from Mr. Isaac Wheeler, 

 Beaumont Buildings, Oxford. Eldon pippins (seedlings), from I. J. Wil- 

 mot, Esq., Coventry. Queen pine apple (weight 2 lbs. 8 oz.), from Mr. 

 George White, gardener to Sir Rowland Hill. Hybrid cereus, seedling, 

 hybrid cineraria, from J. L. Snow, gardener to Sir Herbert Jenner, 

 Chislehurst. Twenty-one vars. of chrysanthemums, from Messrs. Chand- 

 ler. Argemone Barclaya/za, Passiflora racemosa princeps ; Chinese roses 

 of the following kinds, yellow and blush, sweet-scented, rubra, single, 

 dwarf Chinese, Barclay's Chinese, pink cluster, multiflora, from Mrs. 

 Marryatt. 



Fi'om the Garden of tJie Society. Flowers : Stenactis speciosa, Chimo- 

 nanthus fragrans var. grandiflorus, chrysanthemums. — Fruit. Apples : 

 Hormead pearmain, an excellent bearer ; Yellow bellefleur ; Bedfordshire 

 foundling, a fine kitchen apple; Belledge pippin; Court pendu plat, escapes 

 the spring frosts, owing to its late blossoming ; Downton, Gray queening. 

 Winter queening, Reinette grise, Baxter's pearmain ; Dutch Mignonne, a 

 good bearer ; Reinette du Canada. Pears : Glout morceau, continues to 

 be a good bearer as a standard ; Passe colmar, Bezi de Caissoy, Ne plus 

 Meuris : some of these have ripened much earlier than usual ; Fondante 

 du Bois, Dowler's seedling, Beurre Beauchamps, Colmar. Golden pippin, 

 from John WUliams, Esq., grown on common crab stocks and on Siberian 

 crab stocks. 



Jan. 15. — Read. Observations on the Quality of the Oak Timber pro- 

 duced in Great Britain, by Wm. Atkinson, Esq. A Report on the^ Growth 

 of certain Varieties of Pears and Grapes, by J. W. Griffith, Esq. 



Exhibited. Specimens bearing fresh flowers, and last year's fruit, of the 

 Glastonbury thorn, from Mr. Callow, Butleigh, near Glastonbury. Citrons 

 grown at Hendon, from John Lane, Esq. Apples and French beans, 

 from Mr. Joseph Haythorn. A seedling Primula prae'nitens, from Mr. 

 James Henderson. Camellias, from John Allnutt, Esq. StrelltzM oviita, 



