HORTICUI/rUKAL SOCIKTY OF LONDON'. 



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the Hardy Department of tlie Society's Garden, explaining in 

 what manner he had succeeded in raising- the seeds of Coniferous 

 plants, and of preserving them with certainty till past their seed- 

 ling state. It appeared that the principal points to be attended 

 to are to sow the seeds in pure loam, without any mixture of 

 peat, and with as little sand as possible j to take care that the 

 loam is nearly dry, until the seeds have vegetated, and then to 

 administer water only in very small quantities , to stimulate 

 germination by the application of bottom heat, which is however 

 to be abstracted as soon as the plants make their appearance 

 above ground. 



The following objects were exhibited 3 



From Mr.Newson, Gardener to Countess de Salis, fruit of the 

 Hillingdon Pippin, a seedling apple raised by the Rev. W. Dry, of 

 Hillingdon Rectory • it appeared to be a very good keeping kind, 

 fit to gather at Old Michaelmas, and was stated to be very late in 

 blossoming, and healthy and free from canker, although planted 

 in a bad stony soil. 



From R. Perceval, Esq., fruit of a melon from Corfu. 



From Mr. B. Saunders, of Jersey, a seedling apple called 

 Saunders's Jersey Pippin ; it was very like a Reinette grise. 



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

 specimens of two very fine cucumbers called the Sion House, and 

 Weedons." 



From Mr. Thomas Lindsay, Gardener to Sir William Mid- 

 dleton, Bart,,/rMii of a pear, sent to the Rev. W. Kirby, Rector 

 of Barham, near Ipswich, as the true Beurre Spence,by Mr. Spence 

 himself. It proved to be the Beurrd Diel j and this shows that 

 as the name of B. Spence has already been assigned by diflferent 

 persons to the Beurr6 de Capiaumont, to the Beurre de Mons, and 

 to the Urbaniste, it is probable that no such pear as the Beurr^ 

 Spence really exists as a distinct variety. 



From Mr. Fielder, Gardener to William Linwood, Esq., a col- 

 lection of Orchidaceous and other flowers, among which was a 

 very fine specimen of Cattleya labiata. 



From Mr. W. Dunsford, Gardener to Baron Dimsdale, a speci- 

 men of Cattleija guttata, with ten flowers on one spike. The 

 plant from which the flowers were taken had been kept in a very 

 low temperature, sometimes as low as 55°, and never higher than 

 65° Fahr. 



From John AUnutt, Esq., F.H.S., a specimen of Donckelaers 

 Camellia. s 



From James Bateman, Esq., flowers of Oncidium Cavendishii 

 and a species of Oberonia. 



From Messrs. Chandler and Co., a collection of flowers of 

 Jersey Chrysanthemums. 



From George Barker, Esq., a fine specimen of Oncidium In- 



