PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



1840. 



No. IX. 



January 21, 1840. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society : 



James Du Pre, Esq., Wilton Park, near Beaconsfield, and 



40, Portland Place. 

 George Glas Sandeman, Esq., 13, Highbury Place. 

 Miss Dugald Stewart, 8, Brighton Crescent, Portobello, N.B. 

 Rev. Edward Wickham, Brook Green, Hammersmith. 



The following was also elected a Foreign Corresponding Mem- 

 ber upon the recommendation of the Council : 



Mr. C. F. Frey, Inspector of Gardens to his Serene Highness 

 Ferdinand, Duke of Saxe Coburg Goth a. 



A paper was read from Mr. Robert Errington, Gardener to Sir 

 P. Egerton, Bart., M.P., upon his method of forcing peaches. 

 On former occasions very remarkable specimens of this fruit had 

 been received from Mr. Errington, and four medals had been 

 awarded him for them in four successive years. The object of 

 the paper was to describe a very fine tree of the Noblesse 

 Peach, by which the fruit in question had been produced, and to 

 explain his method of forcing it. The author stated, that the 

 house which covers the tree is metallic, and has an angle of fifty 

 degrees, with an upright front sash three feet from the ground 

 level. It is thirty feet long by twelve feet wide, and is furnished 



