726 London Horticultural Society and Garden 



Fruits, Peaches : Chancellor, Late admirable. Pears : Reine des poires, 

 a great bearer as a standard tree ; Fondante d'automne, a new Belgic 

 variety ; Duquesne d'ete and Jean de Witte, both received originally from 

 the collection of Van Mons ; Poire figue, or Pistolette, from a standard, 

 a good bearer J Poire d'oeuf, suspected to be a swan's egg, but proves 

 very distinct; and Bossurgan Armiidi, a Turkish or Persian pear, re- 

 ceived through Dr. Diel of Nassau. Apples : Yellow Ingestrie, Holland- 

 bury, Large white Calville, Nelson (not Kirke's Lord Nelson), No core, 

 Wormsley pippin, Drap d'or, Alexander, Hawthornden; Foxley, good 

 for cider, and remarkable for its orange colour both externally and inter- 

 nally ,* Calville rouge d'automne. Crimson queening. White summer Crof- 

 ton; Nonesuch, the Celini figured, and distributed about London by 

 plants sold at a guinea each, by Phillips, Vauxhall, is doubtless the same 

 as this ; Beauty of Kent and Flower of Kent (these two sorts are often con- 

 fused with each other). Golden noble^ Spice apple. Autumn pearmain, and 

 Kirke's Lord Nelson. The collection of fruits was not so good, in con- 

 sequence of the wind having blown down many sorts that would other- 

 wise have at this date been in season. 



October- \. — Exhibited. Double-blossomed peaches, from Edmund 

 Johnstone, Esq. Monstrous peach, from Mi'. Andrew Notmann. Seedling 

 apples, queen pine-apple, and grapes, from H. J. Grant, Esq. Coaur du roi 

 pippin, from James Russell, Esq. A collection of flowers of georginas, 

 from James Veitch. Apples, flowers of georginas, and grapes, from Mr. 

 Maher, jun., gardener to Lady East. A collection of flowers of georginas, 

 from Messrs. Chandler. Chapman's black Hamburgh grape, ripened in the 

 open air, having been a little advanced in the spring artificially, from John 

 Allnutt, Esq. Collections of flowers of georginas, from Messrs. Glenny, 

 Hopwood, Dennis, and Hogg. 



From the Garden of the Society. Fruit. Apples : White russet, Calville 

 rouge d'automne ; Drap d'or, a French apple, little known in this country,, 

 but is a very handsome fruit, a great bearer, and doubtless good for kitchen 

 use ; Downton, Autumn pearmain. Scarlet pearmain. Golden reinette, Hol- 

 landbury, Beauty of Kent, Cole, Camousnethan pippin. Yellow Ingestrie, 

 Foxley, Golden noble, Alexander; Pomme de Neige, its flesh is of a snow 

 white ; Wormsley pippin, a sort frequently mentioned as possessing ex- 

 cellent qualities ; Pitmaston russet nonpareil, Waltham Abbey seedling, 

 Hawthornden ;^ Brabant bellefleur, a very excellent kitchen apple; Rib- 

 ston pippin, and Hormead pearmain; Hoary morning, a good bearer; 

 White paradise. Royal russet, Margil, Coui't of Wick, Crimson queen- 

 ing, Beauty of Wilts, Gloria m.undi ; Alfreston, from a tree grown on the 

 French paradise stock ; and king of the pippins. Pears : Belle et bonne, 

 John Monteith, and Beurre de Capiaumont ; Aston town, a good stand- 

 ard pear ; Seckler, Moor-fowl egg ; Fondante Van Mons, a very good 

 pear, it generally grows much larger ; Quaker, Henry Quatre ; and Gan- 

 sel's bergamot from a wall. — Flowers : Eucomis punctata. Zinnia ele- 

 gans, Amaryllis Belladonna, Fuchsia globosa, Tecoma capensis, Nerine 

 undulata, French marigolds, Gloriosa superba, Eschsch61tzi« sp, from 

 Mr. Douglas; Zyupinus ornatus and mutabilis; i?6sa indica fragrans, indica 

 sanguinea, indica cernua, and indica Pallavicini; Salvia Grahami, pseiido- 

 coccinea, cardinalis, angustifolia, and splendens ; Stenactis speci6sa, il^'aV/ia 

 elegans, Pentstemon roseus, and Eulophia macrostachya ; Georginas 

 of the classes, tall, anemone-flowered, seedling anemone-flowered, and 

 Swiss,. 



October 15. — Exhibited. A specimen of bamboo, presented by Cap- 

 tain Joseph Andrews, Islington. A new kind of Canada gourd, and a 

 seedling georgina, from Mr. Thresher of Hampton. A new variety of half- 

 tall double yellow-flowered georgina, from Mi% Vaux, at Mrs. Eades's, 



