PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1840. 



No. X. 



April 7, 1840. 

 ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society j 



The Earl of Egremont, Orchard Wyndham, Somersetshire. 

 Miss Burdett Coutts, Stratton Street, Piccadilly. 

 Walter Ewer, Esq., Dover. 



William Jardine, Esq., Brunswick Hotel, Hanover Square. 



The following were, upon the recommendation of the Council, 

 elected Foreign Members of the Society. 



Rene Joachim Henri Dutrochet, M.D., Chateau Rene, 



Department d'Indre et Loire. 

 Stephen Endlicher, M.D., Professor of Botany, and Director 



of the Botanic Garden of the University of Vienna, 

 Philip Frederick de Siebold, M.D., Leyden. 

 Pierre Philippe Andre Vilmorin-Andrieux, Paris. 



A paper was read from Mr. Thomas Rivers, Jun., Nursery- 

 man, Sawbridgeworth, upon the advantage of pruning the roots 

 of Pear Trees. 



The Author stated that in consequence of being inconvenienced 

 by the confusion in the names of pears, he felt himself called 

 upon to plant specimen trees of all the varieties he then pos- 

 sessed ; but fearing that much ground would be wasted in the 

 experiment, he endeavoured to discover some means of arresting 

 superabundant growth, and inducing early fruitfulness. After 



