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diathesis ; rickets, hernia, rheumatism, sciatica, toothach, asthma, peripneu- 

 mony, dyspepsia, palsy, phthisis, chlorosis, are doubtful ; not that these dis- 

 orders, or any of them, do not, in many cases, originate in other causes; 

 but that they are, in many cases, fairly ascribable to the effects of malaria or 

 miasma. 



Art. VI. The iLondon Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Meeting, Ocfoie?- 4. 1836. — Exhibited. Plants. Lantana SelloaV, Cbm- 

 bretum purpureum, Chironfa /inifolia, C. decussata, Amaryllis, a hybrid 

 between A. aulica and A. Johnsoni; ^rica verticillata, Manettia cordifolia, 

 Rondelet/« speciosa, and Zygopetalum Mackai/; from Mrs. Lawrence. Myan- 

 thus cristatus, and M. barbatus, from J. Bateman, Esq. Seedling lobelias 

 and petunias, a hybrid Passiflora between P. alata and P. racemosa, and 

 dahlias, from Mr. R. Miller, gardener to the Earl of Shrewsbury. Clematis 

 caerulea grandiflora, and two orchideous plants, from Mr. H. Low, A col- 

 lection of flowers, from the Hon. W. H. F. Strangways. — • Fruits. A 

 branch of the Wormsley pippin, with sixteen fruit upon it, from J. Webster, 

 Esq, Black Hamburgh grapes, from F. Hodgson, Esq. Cannon Hall muscat 

 grapes, from the Earl of Tyrconnel. Seedhng grapes, between the black 

 Hamburgh and the Frontignan, from W. Whitlock, of Pepper Hall. Dove 

 Bank plums, brown beurre pears, and chancellor peaches, from Sir Oswald 

 Mosley, Bart., M. P. Providence pine-apple, weighing 9\ lb. ; queen ditto, 

 weighing 5i lb. ; ditto, weighing, 4^ lb.; from Mrs. Edwards Vaughan. Nerii 

 figs, from T, A. Knight, Esq. 



From the Garden of the Society. Plants. Zygopetalum Mackaii, ^^o- 

 lanura aspero-lanatum, S. sp. with eatable fruit; iithospermum ?'osmarini- 

 folium, Lobelia Tiipa, Vallota purpurea, Escallonza montevidensis, Anemone 

 fitifolia, Tecoma capensis, dahlias, and China asters. — Fruits. Pears : 

 Flemish beauty, fondante d'automne, beurre Bosc, Buffam, Henri Quatre, 

 Louise bonne (of Jersey), poire figue, bergamotte Dertrycker, autumn berga- 

 mots, moorfowl egg. Grapes : white Nice. 



Medals awarded. A large silver medal was awarded at this meeting to 

 Mrs. Edwards Vaughan, for the above-mentioned pine-apples ; a Knightian 

 medal to Mr, Whiting, gardener to Lord Tyrconnel, for the Cannon Hall 

 muscat grapes ; and one to Sir Oswald Mosley, for the Dove Bank plums. 

 Banksian medals : one to Mr. H. Low, for the Clematis caerulea grandiflora 

 (see fig. 57. p. 358.) ; and one, also, to Mrs. Lawrence, for the Zygopetalum 

 Mackaw. 



Meeting, Oct. 18. 1836. — Presented. Memoires de 1' Academic Royale 

 des Sciences de I'lnstitut de France, torn. xiii. ; et Memoires presentes par 

 divers Savans a I'Academie Royale, &c., tom. vi. ; by the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences, &c., of Paris. Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Society of India; by the Society. 



Exhibited. Plants. Epidendrum ciliatum, Oncidium ciliatum, Cattleya 

 LoddigesM, Zygopetalum Macka« var., Maxillaria Deppe/, Polyspora axillaris 

 from Messrs. Rollisson. Strelitzia hiimilis, from T. Harris, Esq. Miscel- 

 laneous flowers, from the Hon. W. H. F. Strangways. Ditto, from Mrs, 

 Marryatt. Specimens of a new variety of oak, from Messrs. Fennessy of the 

 Quay, Waterford. (See fig. 82. p. 407.) A collection of dahlias, seedhng 

 ditto, roses, and Cypripedium insigne, from Mr. G. Glenny. A collection of 

 dahlias, and a seedling chrysanthemum, from Mr. R. Chandler. Cassia 

 sp., from Mrs. Lawrence. — Fruits. A melon from Valencia, from the 

 Rev. F. J. Staniforth. Three varieties of apples, from the Rev. W. Cobbold 

 of Selborne. Louise bonne (of Jersey) pears, from the Earl of Tyrconnel, 

 Black Prince grapes, black Hamburgh grapes, and varieties of pears, from 



