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round the end of each, and hooked as shewn at //. The screw g 

 is then worked until the wire enters its proper hole in the post 

 p, when it is bent and secured by a wedge as already stated. The 

 nuts on the bolts No. 5, at the end from which the wires were 

 drawn, are then screwed up a little, so as to make all the wires as 

 tight as possible. The cost of the whole averages from eighteen 

 pence to two shillings per yard. 



" I have been thus minute with the details of the trellis and 

 the mode of erecting it, in order that those who approve of it 

 may be able to have others erected on the same plan, for either of 

 the purposes to which it has been successfully applied at Car- 

 <;lew. — I am^ sir, your very obedient servant, 



" \Vm. B. Booth." 



The following objects were exhibited ; 



From Mr. W. Newson, Gardener to Countess de Sdis, a fine 

 specimen of Clianthus puniceus. 



From Mr. John Green, Gardener to Sir Edmund Antrobus, 

 Bart., a brace of Cucumbers, and some handsome green-house 

 plants, the most remarkable of which were Hardenbergia Comp- 

 touiana, nnd Dillaynia glijcinifolia. 



From Mr. Toward, Gardener to H. R. H. the Duchess of Glou- 

 cester, a new species of Zichya from Swan River. It had unfor- 

 tunately been injured by frost on its way to the meeting, so that 

 its true character could not be judged of. 



From Mr. Steel, Nurseryman, Richmond, some flowers of Ca- 

 mellias. 



From Mr. Beaton, Gardener to Thomas Harris, Esq., a very 

 remarkable collection of Cactaceous plants, chiefly imported from 

 Mexico, and the Spanish Main ; also a fine crimson-flowered 

 Inga, and two specimens of a Testudinaria from Mexico. Among 

 the former plants was Cereus senilis of various lengths, from a 

 seedling two inches high, and supposed to be eighteen months 

 old, to five feet three inches, and it was mentioned that the Duke 

 of Bedford had recently received one of these plants seven feet, 

 and two others ten feet long each • others were said to be expect- 

 ed as much as fourteen feet long, and of a woolly as well as hairy 

 appearance. Connected with this collection the following notcC 

 from Mr. Beaton was read to the meeting : — 



" At a meeting of the Horticultural Society, held on the 19th 

 of June, 1S3S, I exhibited a collection of Cacti, amongst 

 which were two or three seedlings which I thought at that time 

 were those of Cereus senilis, having raised them from seeds re- 

 ceived under that name from Mexico, but I have since ascertained 

 they were those of a species of Echinocactus. It will be recol- 

 lected by the Horticultural Society that those seedlings were 

 destitute of the hairs peculiar to C. senilis, which gave rise at the 

 time to an opinion that the hairs were not produced on C, senilis 



