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account of ascertained facts concerning the effects of foreign impregnation in 

 diversifying the different species of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. For the 

 best essay, founded on observation and experiment, on the effects produced 

 on the scion and its produce by the stock on which it is grafted. For the best 

 description of those diseases that appear in the bark of trees, which have 

 been liitherto indiscriminately denominated canker ; with the mode of cure. 

 For an account of the best mode of transmitting home the seeds of certain 

 plants, natives of tropical climates, in such a state as to be capable of germin- 

 ation ; to be founded on actual experience : among the seeds particularly re- 

 ferred to are those of the following genera : Nauclea, Ardisia, Sdntalum, 

 Micheh'fl, Swieten««, Urania, Uvaria, Musa, Eugenk, Telopea, Doryanthes, 

 J/aurus, Dillenirt, Dipterix, Cephaiotus. For an account, founded on expe- 

 rience, of the mode of preparing haricots verts, or keeping kidneybeans green 

 in the pod all winter, as practised in various parts of the Continent. For 

 any approved variety of culinary vegetable not hitherto cultivated in Scotland. 

 For the best pint basket of the tubers of O'xalis crenata, with an account of 

 the mode of dressing them for table use. For the best pint basket of the 

 tubers of Alstroemeria ovata, with an account of the mode of dressing. 



In the previous Report it is mentioned, that the Horticultural Society of 

 London, with their usual liberality, have lately presented a collection of plants 

 and cuttings of fruit trees and ornamental shrubs for the experimental gar- 

 den. Several of the London and provincial nurserymen, and amateurs, have 

 lately made similar presents, particularly Messrs. H. Low and Company, Clap- 

 ton; Messrs. John Lee and Company, Hammersmith; Messrs. Young and 

 Penny, Milford ; Mr. Page, Southampton ; William Atkinson, Esq., Grove 

 End ; and Mr. William Anderson, Apothecaries' Garden, Chelsea ; to all of 

 whom the thanks of the Society have been voted. 



A County Horticultural Society is in contemplation in Fifeshire. In 1820, 

 the Cupar Horticultural Society was commenced ; since which several others 

 have sprung up in different parts of Fife. From the very great number of 

 gentlemen's seats within a circuit of twelve or fifteen miles of Cupar, a 

 county society held in that town would, it is thought, have a greater number 

 of active competitors than any other provincial society in Scotland. — Thomas 

 MacGlashan. Cupar, Jan. 30. 1833. 



IRELAND. 



Kilkenny, Feb. 11. 1835. — There are few exotic trees and shrubs of any 

 age in this neighbourhood. Between sixteen and seventeen years ago, my 

 father established this nursery, and stocked it with all the trees and shrubs 

 generally cultivated in nurseries at that time. There are a few older speci- 

 mens, which were planted before my father's time, and these may be eighty or 

 a hundred yeai's old ; they are chiefly phillyreas, alaternus, cypress, cedars, 

 and laurels. This being a tillage county, our gentry plant but little, except for 

 ornament about their houses. 



The late Lord Oriel was, through life, a most spirited and successful col- 

 lector and planter of foreign trees and shrubs ; and his nephew, Baron 

 Foster, is a keen horticulturist. Mr. Hayes of Avondale, a sweet place in 

 the county of Wicklow, published some notices of trees, in an 8vo pamphlet 

 [which we have], some years ago. 



Our native woods, though they once clothed the island, are now nearly 

 eradicated ; but a remnant of one remains about five or six miles from this, 

 belonging to Lord Desart, of an oak in which I have procured the dimen- 

 sions : — Girt, 12 in. from the ground, 20 ft. Bin.; at 3 ft. from the ground, 

 14 ft. 9 in.; at 18 ft., 14ft.; at its ramification, 22ft. 6 in.; diameter of its 

 head, 77 ft. I am told of larger oaks, and also of larger ashes ; but I can 

 state to you nothing positive respecting them. 



I have an ailantus, planted about fifty years ago, which has been repeatedly 

 cut over by the surface, as it overshadowed its neighbours ; and I find that it 



