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flavour in this climate (unless against a wall), where it has not yet come into 

 bearing ; Newtown Spitzemberg, London pippin ; Brabant bellefleur, a very 

 fine kitchen fruit. Pears : Easter beurre ; beurre ranee, from standard trees; 

 ne plus Meuris, from standard trees : the fruit of these three kinds had been 

 kept in sand. Cuttings for distribution : fifty sets of each of the following 

 kinds : — Plums : Coe's fine late red (a very valuable late sort), Washington. 

 Cherries : Elton, late Duke. 



Feb. 3. — Read. A communication on the failure of the growth of the 

 potato ; by J. B. Turner, Esq., Borough Cottage, Ilfracombe. A note on the 

 means employed in raising a tree of the imperatrice nectarine ; by T. A. Knight, 

 Esq. 



Exhibited. A Catillac pear, in weight 2 lb. 1 oz., from the garden of F. 

 Green, Esq., Faversham, Beds. ; presented by J. Simpson, Esq. Patent fumi- 

 gators and blowers, from Mr. Alexander Clark, 7. Nelson Terrace, City Road. 

 A seedling variety of Cyclamen persicum, from Mr. Glenny. Neottia speciosa, 

 Astrapse^i Wallichw, Crinum amabile, iifelleborus niger, Pr6te« sp., and iSedum 

 sp., from Mrs. Marryat. Camellias, from Mr. Allnutt. CamelKa japonica 

 CAwedna and j. Colvillii, from Messrs. Chandler. 



Also, from the Society^ Garden. Flowering specimens of Garrya elliptic a, 

 Chimonanthus fragrans, f. grandiflorus, f. parviflorus ; Crinum amabile, camel- 

 lias of the varieties rotundifolia, princeps, Aitonja, fimbriata, alba plena ; 

 Amarylli.s aulica. — Fruits. Apples of the kinds Calville malingre, a great 

 bearer; Rhode Island greening, conquest of Wigers, Herefordshire pearmain, 

 reinette du Canada, Martin nonpareil ; Boston russet, a very good table apple ; 

 Sturmer pippin, Dutch mignonne ; Ord's mignonne, esteemed by some for its 

 abundance of sharp juice ; red-streak keeping, reinette jaune sucree, winter 

 queening, Pennock's red winter, golden noble, Ponto pippin ; green balsam, 

 a good kitchen apple ; London pippin. Grange's seedling, Bedfordshire found- 

 ling, Morden striped ; Baldwin, an American sort, which keeps long sound 

 for kitchen use; Bellidge. Pears: Easter beurre, beurre ranee; both from 

 standard trees. Cuttings for distribution : — Plums : reine Claude violette, 

 nectarine. Cherries : Downton, Knight's early black. 



Feb. 17. — Read. The meteorological journal kept in the Society's garden, 

 for 1834. A note on the cultivation of the pine-apple, by Mr. Craig Pillans, 

 gardener to the Duke of Roxburgh, at Arloors, near Kelso, Scotland. 



Exhibited. 'EAeiia /zyacinthmcr, Acacia sp., violets, the single Neapolitan, 

 from Mrs. Marryat. Flowers : i7elleborus odorus, Garrya elliptica, Chi- 

 monanthus fragrans, Diosma capitata, Gnidia simplex, Lachenah'a tricolor, 

 Amaryllis amabilis. Buddies madagascariensis ; Camellia japonica fimbriata, 

 japonica splendens, japonica decora, j. carnation waratah, j. double striped. 

 Apples : Stony Royd pippin, Kaisersheimer, pigeon. Grange's seedling, 

 northern greening, grey queening, winter queening, silverlink, ognon. Parry's 

 pearmain, Calville royale, red Easter, Bedfordshire foundling, excellent 

 kitchen apple ; royal reinette ; Brabant bellefleur, a fine kitchen apple ; Rhode 

 Island gi-eening, good, either for kitchen or table use; London pippin, Bel- 

 lidge, Norfolk pippin, green nonpareil. Cuttings of pears for distribution : 

 beurre Bosc, reckoned superior to Marie Louise; bon chretien fondant; 

 Nelis d'hiver, one of the very finest of winter pears as regards flavour; 

 monarch : .50 sets of each. 



March 3. — Read. A communication on forcing of peaches and nec- 

 tarines; by Mr. John Mearns. A treatise on the cultivation of the vine, 

 by Mr. William Gowans ; communicated by the Glasgow Horticultural 

 Society. 



Exhibited. Camellias from J. Allnutt, Esq., of the kinds reticulata, japonica 

 mcarnata, Le Blanc's red, and a seedling. Camellia japonica conspfcua, j. 

 Reeveszi longifoha, j. Palmeri, Primula prae'nitens, white-corollaed, p. purple- 

 corollaed, and cut camellias from S. C. Palmer. 



From the Society's Garden. Flowering specimens of Berberis Jquifoliumj 



