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cherry is a fine, large, late, and very abundant bearing sort, with watery flesh : 

 the fruit may be had as late as the middle of August, or, netted on a wall, 

 even later. The bigarreau Napoleon cherry is allowed to be the largest of the 

 bigarreau tribe : it is a very fertile bearer. The monarch pear is a very hardy 

 sort, seemingly as hardy as the hawthorn : the tree has a wild and thorny 

 appearance, but the fruit is excellent. The beurre Bosc pear is as large as the 

 Marie Louise, and in flavour excels it : it ripens rather later than that sort. 

 Seeds of Pinus nigricans. 



Read. A communication on making a selection of kinds of apples for 

 cultivation ; by Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Bart. The Meteorological Journal for 

 1835, kept at the Society's Garden. 



Exhibited. Apples of the kinds : Hunt's royal nonpareil, Hunt's Duke of 

 Gloucester, and Newtown pippin, from Thomas Hunt, Esq. Grapes of the 

 kind Escholata superba, from G. H. Ward, Esq. Specimens of metallic wire 

 for gardens; also a nev/ sort of wall-nail for the above, from Mr. W. A. Row- 

 land, 20. Prince's Street, Chester. A miscellaneous collection of flowers, 

 from the Hon, T. H. F. Strangways. Strelitzia sp., Crinum amabile, and three 

 kinds of Cyclamen, from Mrs. Marryat. E'pacris variabilis and campanulata, 

 and the Camellia japonica var. the eclipse, from Mrs. Lawrence. 



From the Society's Gai^den. Chimonanthus fragrans, and f. grandiflorus; 

 i7elleborus odorus, Crinum amabile, and the following varieties of Camelh'a 

 japonica: flnemoneflora alba, aucubcs'ioXx^i, various-flowered, variegata plena, 

 althseaeflora, and Wiltoni. Apples of the kinds Boston russet, table ; white 

 Easter, kitchen ; French crab, kitchen ; green apple : this has considerable re- 

 semblance to the preceding, but is different, and has less acidity. Gros Bohn, 

 kitchen; Rhode Island greening, table, kitchen ; northern reinette;. St. Juhen, 

 table; Norfolk beaufin ; grey queening ; russet nonpareil, table. Pears of the 

 kinds Easter bergamot, poire d'Austrassie, and la fortunee de Parmentier. 

 The last is one of more than a hundred new sorts of pears, which a favourable 

 season would render it possible to judge of the merits of most of. This sort 

 was first noticed in the Revue Horticole, in Le Bon Jardinier, 1829, "as 

 having a butterj', melting, delicious flesh, and as keeping until July." It is a 

 great bearer, and may, perhaps, be found, in a different season, to possess 

 merit nearer to that originally announced of it. There is a pear, called the 

 merveille d'hiver, which will, perhaps, be found to be the same. 



Cuttings for Distribution, o? the Downton cherry, reine Claude, violette plum, 

 nelis d'hiver pear, and Comte de Lamy pear. The Downton cherry is an 

 excellent bearer as a standard, and attains a good size as such. The Comtej 

 de Lamy pear is hardy, and, as a standard autumn pear, is to be recommended 

 for its exceedingly rich sugary quality. The fruit of the nelis d'hiver is a hand4 

 some middle-sized pear, not so desirable, on acount of this last quality, to the 

 general fruit-grower ; but, in private collections, it ought always to be includedl 

 as it is richer than even most of the new kinds. 



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Died, on October 16. 1835, at Liverpool, in the 30th year of his age, Mr. 

 Josefh Picken, of the firm of Caldwell and Picken, Nursery and Seedsmen, 

 Knutsford, Cheshire ; a good man, of business habits, and a scientific practical 

 botanist. — J. G. Greenbank, near Liverpool, January 26. 1836, 



Died lately, at Paris, in the 82d year of his age, M. Delenze, Honorary Libra- 

 rian at the Garden of Plants. He was well known in the learned world as 

 the translator of Darwin's Loves of the Plants and Thomson's Seasons, as well 

 as for some original works ; and he was the author of a History of the Intro- 

 duction of Ornamental Plants into European Gardens, published in the Annales 

 du Musee, from which we have derived some interesting facts, noticed in the 

 historical part of our Encyclopoedias of Gardening, and of Arboriculture. 



