at Dickson and TurnbuU's, Perth. 507 



Among the fruits exhibited were some hundreds of varieties 

 of pears and apples, including many of the new sorts introduced 

 from France and the Netherlands ; also a small branch, about 

 7 in. long, containing about 100 cherries, which grew in the 

 New How Green, Perth, twenty-two years ago, preserved in a 

 glass [in spirits, we presume]. 



Above thirty specimens of grasses were exhibited by Mr. 

 Bishop of Methven Castle. 22'lymus sibiricus produces a weighty 

 crop ; and, being eaten by animals with avidity, it deserves the 

 attention of agriculturists. Poa nemoralis forms a dense sward 

 under the shade of trees ; and, as we have before observed, is 

 valuable in pleasure-grounds. A grass of uncommon formation, 

 from New Orleans, whose properties are not known ; and one of 

 Mr. Drummond's newly discovered grasses, from the north-west 

 coast of North America, were exhibited. Messrs. Dickson and 

 Turnbull truly observe, that the advantages offered by the 

 introduction of different sorts of pasture grasses into culture is 

 becoming every season more obvious. They trust soon to see 

 farmers aware of the importance of the subject ; and, when that 

 is the case, they anticipate pastures of a much more luxuriant 

 verdure than are at present to be found in Perthshire. Among 

 the communications is an excellent essay on this subject, by Mr. 

 Bishop of Methven Castle. 



The samples of grass seeds w r ere numerous ; and, among 

 them, one of Italian rye grass, from Mr. Lawson, seedsman, 

 Edinburgh. There were also specimens of articles from Messrs. 

 Drummond of Stirling; both cases affording a gratifying proof 

 of the good feeling which subsists in Scotland among persons 

 following the same pursuits ; not only in the usual routine of 

 business, but in the extraordinary exertions displayed in the 

 establishment of these exhibitions. Among the specimens of 

 grasses exhibited were two of an Italian rye grass ; which, with 

 Mr. Gorrie, has produced two crops in a year. A variety of 

 samples of agricultural seeds were exhibited by Nash and Co. 

 of London ; and an extensive collection of grass seeds and 

 specimens, and also numerous species of pines and firs in pots, 

 from Messrs. Dickson and Turnbull's own nursery. Mr. Gorrie 

 produced fine specimens of larch wood in which the rot had 

 commenced. (See our next.) The trees, for the greater part, 

 had been grown on land previously occupied by the Scotch 

 pine. Mr. Young, gardener at Pitfour, also exhibited specimens 

 of larch. " Specimens of larch, showing the commencement 

 and progress of decay: they were planted in 1825, on ground 

 previously occupied, for upwards of sixty years, with the Scotch 

 pine; the soil thin clay, considerably impregnated with iron, on 

 a subsoil of clay in vertical strata, forming an easy subsidence 

 for moisture, on an elevation of about 20 ft. above the level of the 



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