PROCEEDINGS 



OK THE 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1838. 



No. V. 



Nov. 6, 1838. 

 ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following objects were exhibited 



From Messrs. Chandler and Sons, eighteen varieties of the 

 beautiful seedhng Chinese Chrysanthemums raised in Jersey. 



From John Luscombe, Esq., of Coombe Royal, near Kings- 

 bridge, in Devon, specimens of the fruit of the Lime tree produced 

 at that place. They were accompanied by some clusters of Seville 

 oranges, taken from a very old tree, protected by a wooden frame 

 only ; sometimes as many as sixteen fruit are produced iu a 

 bunch ; one of the oranges exhibited, the produce of a young 

 tree, protected in winter by reeds, was rather more than a foot in 

 circumference. 



From John Williams, Esq., of Pitmaston, near Worcester, 

 specimens of seedling Pears. One, the Chaumontel Swan's 

 Egg," was raised from the seed of the Chaumontel impregnated 

 with the pollen of the Swan's Egg ; it was a middle-sized obo- 

 vate fruit with a short stalk, a large open eye, a russet skin, and 

 a rich sugary flavour. Mr. Williams stated that it bears well as 

 a standard, and will be in season in the end of October ; the tree 

 grows with upright branches like the Swan's Eag. The other 

 was a very small roundish obovate l^ear raised from the " seed 

 of the Green Chisel and pollen of the Poire d'Auch it does 

 not appear to possess merit of the first kind, the flesh, though 

 sugary, being rather gritty. Mr. Williams found it succeed 



