214 London Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Observations. — The market has been fully supplied with all the articles 

 usually found at this season. Forced asparagus and sea-kale have been in 

 demand, and made better prices, with an appearance of continuing so for some 

 time. Broccoli is now in great plenty : many of the early varieties having 

 been retarded by the continued prevalence of dry weather during the autumn 

 and early winter months, are now only coming into use : we have, con- 

 sequently, a very heavy supply. To the same cause may be also attributed 

 the large supply of other winter greens. With the prevalence of mild weather 

 throughout the winter, rhubarb, ft-om the open ground, is now coming in 

 generally, and of good quality : it is now in such general use as to prevent 

 any very great rise in the price of apples at this season, when the supply is 

 necessarily becoming limited. Onions are somewhat dearer, but still in 

 moderate quantity, the demand for them being moderate. Of potatoes we 

 have an abundance; the prices very moderate, and in limited demand. This 

 article is much affected by the price of bread, and the general supply of other 

 vegetables. The supply of fruit is getting small ; good apples are in demand 

 at better prices : a cargo of French Royals, and some from Jersey, have been 

 received. — G. C. March 24. 1835. 



Art. VII. London Horticultural Society and Gat-den. 



Dec. 2. — Read. A note on the preservation of carrots from wireworms, 

 &c.; by Sir G. S. Mackenzie. Notes upon a handsome new hardy plant called 

 Clianthus puniceus ; by Dr. Lindley. 



Exhibited. Gomez«, two species of, from Messrs. Rollison. Orange and 

 three citrons from the open air, from the Rev. R. Henshaw, Woodville, Sal- 

 combe, near Kingsbridge, Devonshire. Chinese chrysanthemums, thirtj'-six 

 sorts, from Messrs. Chandler. Hawthornden apples of the second crop, from 

 Mr. J. Kirke. Apples of the second crop, from E. Rudge, Esq. Uvedale's 

 St. Germain pears, from Bennett, Esq. 



Also, from the Sociefi/'s Garden. Flowering specimens of Chimonanthus fra- 

 grans, C. fragrans grandiflorus, Acropera Loddigesw, and of other plants ; and 

 of thirty-two varieties of China chrysanthemums. — Fruits. A Chinese pome- 

 granate, glout morceau pear, and a collection of kitchen and table apples. Of 

 the apples, the London pippin is noted as a kind eligible for eiiher the kitchen 

 or dessert, and as keeping excellently, without shrivelling; Grange's seedling 

 is noted as a good firm kitchen apple. 



Jan. 20. 1835. — Read. A treatise, entitled A farther Account of Ex- 

 periments upon the Cultivation of the Potato, made in the Garden of the So- 

 ciety, in the Year 1834; by Dr. Lindley. 



Exhibited. A double cone of the Araucdria pine, from Mr. Wood, 5. Bed- 

 ford Place, Vauxhall Road. Catshead and gilliflower apples, from William 

 Rashleigh, Esq. F.H.S. A shaddock, raised in Lancashire, from H. M. Dyer, 

 Esq. Fruit of the blimbing, from James Bateman, Esq. F.H.S. Echeveria 

 gibbiflora; E pacris variabilis, impr&sa, and rosea; Erica pellucida, Linnae^a, 

 and vernix coccinea; from Mrs. Lawrence. Single Primus sinensis, from 

 John Reeves, Esq. 



Also, from the Societi/'s Garden. Flowers : Chimonanthus fragrans, f. grandi- 

 florus, f. parviflorus ; Amarylli.? calyptrata. — Fruits. Apples: 12 dessert kinds, 

 namely, Baxter's pearmain, golden pearraain, rose de Chine, reinette du Canada, 

 Dutch mignonne, conquest of Wigers, Burns's seedling, Wheeler's russet, court 

 pendu plat, Roman stem, Boston russet, St. Julien, Rhode Island greening, royal 

 rouge d'hiver, northern greening, Waltham Abbey seedling, Hormead pear- 

 main, Alfriston, Sweeney nonpareil, ^^Esopus Spitzemberg, gloria mundi, Bel- 

 lidge pippin, golden noble, Baldwin ; white Easter, a good keeping apple for 

 kitchen use ; male Carle, sent to show that this, so fine in Italy, willnot acquire 



