HORTICULTURAL SOCIETV OF LONDON. 



17.0 



August 4, 1840. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society j 



Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P., 26, Belgrave Square, and Glantiisk 

 Park, Crickhowel. 



Mrs. Thomas Bell, Hornsey. 



Edward Gill Flight, Esq., 1, Adam Street, Adelphi, and Brid- 

 port. 



Septimus Holmes Godson, Esq., Tenbury, Worcester. 

 John Chrisp Gooday, Esq., No. 16, Claremont Place, Penton- 

 ville, and Sudbury, Suffolk. 



John Morley, Esq., 3, Upper George Street, Portman Square. 

 William Robinson, Esq., 34, Montague Place, Bedford Square. 

 Mrs. M. A. Skaife, Lawn House, Hanwell. 



The following communication was read from the Honourable 

 and Rev. Wm. Herbert. 



I wish to take this opportunity of communicating to the 

 Society a plan I have adopted for cultivating Orchidaceous 

 plants, which I think will be found deserving of notice. I took 

 a strong post, or stem of a young tree barked, of a suitable 

 height, and I had pieces of barked w^ood, such as are used for 

 making rustic benches, cut into various lengths and nailed on, 

 crossing each other in different directions with the knees or 

 elbows pointing outwards, so that the whole had something the 

 appearance of a Roman trophy j moss w\is then tied on where 

 it was thought requisite, and bits of peat inserted in some of the 

 supports, and the plants nailed or tied on with wire, or simply 

 placed in the angles formed by the pieces of transverse wood. 

 The plants in front throve exceedingly well, ])ut those with their 

 back to the wall were found to grow weak and perish. I then 

 devised with my gardener, Mr. Seymour, who has great merit in 

 carrying the plan into execution, to fix two iron pegs or pivots 

 into the two ends of the posts, of which the lower one is let into / 

 a hole drilled in a stone, and the upper is inserted into a ring of 

 strong wire fastened either under a rafter or secured between 

 two. The result is that the whole of each trophy with its plants 

 turns round at the slightest touch. The Gardener moves them 

 a little every time he comes into the house, so that no plant is 

 cither constantly exposed to the full light or totally obscured, 

 and the most agreeable facility is given to examine the pl;uits 



