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Transactions, vol. i. and ii., accompanied with an account by Sir Joseph 

 Banks ; it is the result of one of Mr. Knight's judicious hybridising mix- 

 tures ; a valuable early sauce apple, fit for use from July till the beginning 

 of September. Sir Joseph Banks's friends agreed that they had not met 

 with any autumn apple, which, for baking, could be compared with this. 



August 6. — Read. A communication on the destruction of insects in 

 gardens ; by Sir George S. Mackenzie, Bart. 



Exhibited. Collection of picotees and carnations grown by Mr. Everett, 

 gardener to W. Leveson Gower, Esq. F.H.S., Titsey Place. A collection 

 of georginas, from Mr. John Maher. Dried fruit of a Cactus, and of a 

 species of Platanus, from Miss Martineau. A large collection of German 

 stocks, from Mr. Hopwood of Twickenham, A large collection of German 

 stocks, from Messrs. Rollisson, Nurserymen, Tooting. A collection of 

 georginas, from Mr. T. Hogg, Paddington. O'xalis Piottts, collection of 

 flowers of roses and of other plants, from Mrs. Marryat. English pi- 

 cotees, heartsease, and georginas, from Mr. Glenny, F.H.S. Grapes from 

 Mr. John Wilmot, F. H. S., and a specimen of a bird trap, from T. A. 

 Knight, Esq. 



From the Garden of the Society. Flowers; Zupinus ornatus, Calceolaria 

 rugosa latifolia, Herbertimo!, latifolia angustifolia ; /Salvia angustifolia. 

 Madia elegans, Salpiglossis integrifolia, Brown-flowered Nasturtium or 

 Tropse^olum majus var. atropurpiireum, hybrid pentstemons, Clark/a 

 elegans, Desmodium canadense. Glycine sinensis, Catananche caerulea 

 var. bicolor. Phlox elegans, Rosa, indica centifolia, indica superba. Rose 

 Bougainville, Noisette, Wells's Noisette, double red Noisette, georginas, and 

 Swiss georginas. Pine-apples : Buck's seedling, Blithfield queen. Fruit 

 of Gaultherk Shdllon. Apples : Red Astrachan, Oslin, Calville rouge 

 d'ete, Calville blanche d'ete ; Large yellow bough, received with various 

 names from America; it is likely to prove a valuable, handsome, early 

 apple, either for the dessert or kitchen use ; Duchess of Oldenburgh, 

 from a very young tree on French paradise stock. 



August 20. — Read. A communication on the growth of the striped 

 Hoosainee melon ; by G. J. Towers, Esq. 



Exhibited. Double-flowered Jntirrhinum majus, from J. Church, Esq. 

 A melon from Richard Brook, Esq. A collection of plants, and a melon 

 from Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus ; the plants were Petunia 

 integrifolia or Nierembergia phoenicea D. Don, Pancratium amoe^num 

 and speciosum, Amaryllis sp., seedling fuchsias, Thunbergia alata, Tre- 

 viran« coccinea or Cyrilla pulchella, balsams, and cockscombs ; hybrid 

 Calceolaria. Java peach, or Flat peach of China, Wheatear carnations, 

 Magnoh'a grandiflora, and a collection of apples, from Mr. Joseph Kirke, 

 consisting of the following sorts: — Kirke's Duchess of ^Oldenburgh, 

 Manks codling, Kerry pippin, Early quarrenden, or Sack apple, Haw- 

 thornden, Maddock, Nameless, Transparent crab. Scarlet crab, Siberian 

 crab. A newly invented fruit-gatherer, from Mr. Thompson (Llo^'d's 

 Coffee-house). A collection of seedling heartsease, from Mr. E. Brown. 

 Fruit of a CamelK«, from John AUnutt, Esq. 



From the Garden of the Society. Flowers: Madia elegans; Pentstemon 

 Richards6nz7, campanulatus, and roseus; hybrid pentstemons. Zinnia elegans 

 and elegans coccinea, CEnothera macrocarpa, Cladanthus arabicus; A'siev 

 tenellus, sp. sent home by Mr. Douglas ; Helianthus lenticularis, Chelone 

 obliqua and glabra, Trachymene cserulea; Brown-flowered nasturtium or 

 Tropae^olum majus var. atropurpureum, Ferbena chamaedrifolia, iupinus 

 mutabilis, rivularis, and ornatus; Calampelis scabra, Escallonza montevi- 

 densis. Magnolia grandiflora var. praeVox d'Andry, China asters, Calceolaria 

 viscosissima, rugosa, integrifolia angustifolia, sangulnea, and pulchella ; 

 Russeh'a sp. (Otto), (Salvia pseudo-coccinea, cardinalis, Grahamz, and an- 

 gustifolia; Blumenbach/« insignis, Fuchs/a virgata, Phacelia sp. (Douglas), 



