494? London HorticuUural Society and Garden. 



all aided to keep off the disease. This vine alone was always free from it : 

 this speaks for itself. Perhaps many may think I am too sanguine on this 

 subject; but, should I be right in my opinion, and in the means of producing 

 a remedy, I shall be vain enough to think I have done some real good. Should 

 any person really find the correctness of it, I hope they will do me the favour 

 to acknowledge it in your Magazine, which will be attended with some good ; 

 and should it be fairly proved my idea is wrong, I invite the same insertion 

 from those who may have proved it to be so : but let them give it more than 

 one trial, and fair ones ; for I have no desire to mislead. I know it is apt to 

 be too much the case that imperfect trials are made, and often but one, which 

 I never feel satisfied with ; for unknown accidents often interfered in one trial, 

 which might not in the second. — J. D. Parks. Dartford Nursery, May 20. 

 1835. 



To prevent the Effect of Frost on Brick Walls. — I recollect reading in your 

 account of visiting Claremont (vol. x. p. 325.), that you state Mr. M'Intosh 

 had had the top of his water-basin leaded for some distance down, to prevent 

 the frost from tearing it to pieces. I believe it is not generally known, that, 

 if the bricks were not laid in mortar, the frost would not have any effect in 

 lifting them, and that the cement over the ends of the bricks is sufficient for 

 keeping the water without any mortar. Cement, I believe, might be used 

 with safety ; but even it is not required. — Id, 



Art. IV. The London Horticidtiiral Societij and Garden. 



July 21. 1835. — Read. A communication on the preservation of the 

 Golden Harvey apple; by John Disney, Esq., F.H.S. 



The Grohy Medal awarded to Mr. James Bruce. — It was announced that 

 the gold medal, which had been placed at the disposal of the Society by the 

 Right Hon. Lord Grey of Groby, for the best specimen of the most rare 

 orchideous or parasitical plant exhibited between July 1. ISSl, and July 1. 

 1835, had been awarded to Mr. James Bruce, gardener to Boyd Miller, Esq., 

 of Mitcham, for a specimen of Oncidium ciliatum, with forty-four flowers in 

 its panicle, which was exhibited at the Society's meeting on Nov. 4. 1834. 



Exhibited. Seedling varieties of Pelargonium from Mr. J. Maker, jun., 

 gardener to the Hon. J. Westenra, Fifield, near Maidenhead, Berkshire. 

 Flowering specimens of five kinds of Passiflora, fi'om Mrs. Marr3att. Car- 

 nations and picotees, from Mrs. Lawrence. Flowers of kinds of Dkhlia, from 

 Messrs. Chandler. Models of flowers in wax, from Miss Tayspill, 213. Oxford 

 Street. A cucumber from a plant which had grown in a grapery without heat, 

 trained along the wires, from T. Jesson, Esq. 



Also,- from the Garden of the Society. — Flowers : Alstroemerfa aurea, Anoma- 

 theca cruenta, tSolanum etuberosum, Eschsch61tz?a crocea, J/upinus nanus and 

 mutabilis, Chelone centranthifolia, Tournefort/rt /;eliotropidides, Clarkift ele- 

 gans and pukjiella alba, CEnothera densiflora, iSpirse^a «ri3sf61ia, Magn6h'« 

 grandiflora var. prse^cox d'Andry, Potent! 11a Hopwoodiojzo: and Russelhawa, 

 Catananche bicolor, stocks, roses, dahlias. Fruit : Royal duke cherry ; this 

 very valuable sort was received from France under the names of Royale tardive 

 or Anglaise tardive : it possesses all the good qualities of the May duke, ripen- 

 ing after it is over. The cherries shown were from a standard; and would 

 have been much larger had the season not been so dry. 



August 'i^. — Read. An account of the propagation of ilfimulus Youngii 

 and Petunia z;iolacea, by G. R. G. Ricketts, Esq., F.H.S. 



Exhibited. Rosa microphjlla, from E. Johnston, Esq. An unnamed kind 



of rose, and flowers of kinds of dahlias, from Messrs. Chandler. A melon, 



from Mr. G. Mills, F.H.S. Drawings of fruits and flowers, from Mrs. Withers. 



^ Also, from the Garden of the Society. — Flowers : Ceanothus azureus, V/is- 



tan'ffl ConsequaM, Penstemon Richardson^, Chelone centranthifolia, Podolepis 



