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Improx)ement in the Mode qfjixing 



Art. III. On the Conduct of the Horticultural Society toivards 

 George Glennt/, Esq., F.H.S. Communicated by Mr. Glknny. 



I LAST year put up with many slights from the Horticultural 

 Society, and among them that of exclusion from prizes, on the 

 ground that I had refused one of their medals ; nevertheless, I 

 continued to send through the season some of the most important 

 plants for exhibition. 



On Tuesday last I sent four plants not very common, and on 

 the contrary three of them were rather remarkable ; but, not- 

 withstanding everything else in the room was noticed by Dr. 

 Lindley, my plants were not mentioned. 



Now, I ask your readers whether such conduct is justifiable 

 towards a Fellow of the Society, who has a right, as a partner, 

 to his equal share of any profits and privilege the Society can 

 boast ? 



It is true, I have condemned many acts of the Council and 

 the servants, but though you may do these things more gently 

 than I have done, you have, as a public journalist, exercised the 

 privilege of condemnation and approval as every other inde- 

 pendent writer would ; and it should be remembered that I never 

 advanced a fact that I was not at the time ready to prove. 



IVorlon, Dec. 6. 1839. 



Art. IV. Notice of an Improvement made in the Mode oJ~ fixing 

 Mr. Booth's Wire Trellis for Espaliers. Communicated by W. 

 B. Booth, F.H.S. 



Since I forwarded the account you have published in Vol. 

 XV. p. 630. of a wire trellis for espaliers, and the mode of 

 erecting it, I have adopted another contrivance {Jig. I.) for fixing 

 on the ends of the wires to draw them up, instead of the twisted 



rope yarn formerly mentioned as having been used for that 

 purpose. Perhaps it has little of novelty to recommend it to 

 your notice ; but any merit which it may possess belongs to 

 Peter Copland, the blacksmith here, by whom it was constructed. 



