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Upper Tooting. New yellow dwarf georgina, from Mr. C. Brown, A 

 seedling pine-apple, from Mr. Robert Euck. Kirke's scarlet admirable 

 apple, from L. Haslope, Esq. Grapes from an open wall, from Mr. Whitley 

 of Camberwell. A pomegranate from a north-west wall, from Mrs. Mar- 

 ryatt. 



From the Garden of the Society. Flowers : Amaryllis Belladonna, Lu- 

 pinus mutabilis and ornatus. Clematis /iedysarifolia, Diplopappus canes- 

 cens, and asters. — Fruit. With the exception of the Marie Louise pear, and 

 some of the Doyenne blanc, all the fruit are from standard trees. Pears : 

 Doyenne blanc, Seckle ; Marie Louise, from a wall ; Comte de Lamy, 

 a sort little known, but one which is very excellent; Figue de Naples, 

 Poire Neill, Beurre de Capiaumont, Henri Quatre, Gendeseim, Alpha ; 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme, from a standard; Duchesse d'Angouleme, from an 

 open dwarf grown on a hawthorn stock. Apples : Drap d'or, Barce- 

 lona pearmain ; Gloria mundi, which grows, under ordinary treatment, to 

 the weight of a pound and a half; Downton, a very abundant bearer; 

 Citron des Carmes Golden reinette ; Blenheim pippin, rather smaller than 

 usual, owing to the tree's bearing very abundantly in this dry summer; 

 this sort is, when young, a shy bearer, but proves a good bearer when the 

 tree gets older ; Beauty of Kent, Scarlet Crofton ; Court of Wick, very 

 good ; Cambusnethan pippin, Foxley, Alexander, Pomme de Neige, 

 Wormsley pippin ; Pomme violette, Waltham Abbey seedling. Burn's seed- 

 ling, Ribston pippin, Hormead pearmain. Hoary morning. King of the 

 pippins. Royal russet, and Fearn's pippin. Plums : Coe's late red, a sort 

 valuable for its lateness. It prolongs the season of plums to a later period 

 than any other. The Imperatrice hangs late, but this exceeds it by a 

 month. The fruit shown were off a standard tree. 



November 5. — Read. Observations and discoveries connected with the 

 Culture of Melons ; by the author of the Domestic Gardener's Manual. 

 Remarks on the ripening of the Seeds of the Pine-apple ; by Mr. R. Buck. 

 Remarks on the growth of a peculiar kind of Pine, resembling the Pin- 

 aster; by Mr. W. B. Booth, 



Exhibited. Walnuts, from Mr. Biddulph. Seedling chrysanthemums, 

 from Mr. Wheeler. Queen pine-apple from a sucker, from Mr. G, White. 

 Black and white Hamburgh, grizzly Frontignac, large cluster, and parsley- 

 leaved kinds of grape, from P. D. Cooke, Esq. Bedfordshii'e foundling 

 apples, from Mr. T. Levitt, Wandsworth. Glout morceau pears, from 

 John Ryley, Esq. Flowers of georginas, from Messrs. Chandler. Chap- 

 man's black Hamburgh grape, from John Allnutt, Esq. Mimulus Smith??, 

 from Mr. Smith, Islington. Seedling pine-apple, from Mr.R. Buck. 



From the Garden of the Societi/. Flowers : Chinese chrysanthemums, 

 early blush, blush ranunculus-flowered, tasseled yellow, purple changeable 

 white. Park's small yellow, quilled white, superb clustered yellow, early 

 crimson, sulphur yellow, small yellow Spanish brown, buff or pink, curled 

 lilac, changeable pale buff, curled blush, tasseled lilac, and small brown- 

 flowered. The last variety has been lately imported from China, and pre- 

 sented to the Society, by L. Weltjie, Esq., of Hammersmith, as new. Mr. 

 Reeves, who has seen it in the Chinese flower-markets, says that it is the 

 dwarfest of all the varieties; and, although the flower is small, the plant is so 

 thickly covered with them, that there is scarcely a leaf to be seen. Ac- 

 cording to Mr. Reeves, it originally came from Japan to China. — Fruit. 

 Apples : Sykehouse russet, Bedfordshire foundling, Cornish aromatic ; 

 Vale Mascal pearmain, an abundant bearer; Kilkenny pearmain, Waltham 

 Abbey seedling, Franklin's golden pippin, Hughes's golden pippin, Pear- 

 son's plate. White russet. Golden russet nonpareil, Newtown Spitzemberg, 

 King of the pippins, and Royal russet; Sam Young, a very good table 

 apple ; Downton, Golden reinette, Hormead pearmain : Golden pippin, 

 the true old sort ; the tree which produced these was i-eimported frcra 



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